NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them on a path to financial improvement. Through our NinjaEdge brand, we help companies better understand their customers by offering a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago, Miami, and around the world through the power of remote work, we are a lean and innovative team always seeking like-minded talent to join us in our fight to disrupt consumer finance.

Job Summary:

The Business Analyst is part of the Data Team reporting directly to the VP of Engineering. This person will work closely with all business teams regarding their reporting needs and how those needs will be met by the data warehouse. The warehouse, and in particular its data model architecture, is the product used by all teams to understand the CreditNinja business - its current state and future possibilities.

The right candidate knows the fundamentals of the business intelligence function. This person has demonstrated experience working with engineers and business teams to deliver a data warehouse, reporting cubes, and dashboard reporting.

What you'll work on:

You will meet with business and engineering to discuss tactical and strategic reporting problems and projects. You will create diagrams, write requirements, and create a data dictionary to enable the refactor of the warehouse.

The goal of refactor is to:

1. Reduce warehouse computation costs
2. Make the data model directly represent the business from each team's viewpoint
3. Reduce the effort required by business and engineering to extend the model to answer new business questions

You will meet regularly with various business teams to understand their processes and bring back to engineering recommendations for improvements to their reporting

What we're looking for:

• 4+ years of professional business analyst or product management experience in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse Engineering, or equivalent area.
• Knows how to write non-trivial SQL queries
• Experience with dimensional modeling

Additional Pluses, but not requirements:

• Experience as a data engineer or BI developer or architect
• Experience in lending industry
• Experience working with Snowflake, DBT, and Periscope

Tech Stack:

• Ruby on Rails
• Python Flask app
• Postgres, Redis, MS SQL, Snowflake
• Vanilla JS, React JS
• All on AWS using Lambdas, EC2, ECS
• CircleCi, GitHub
• Selenium, Rspec, Cucumber

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible, remote work
• Fun, fast-paced work environment
• Dynamic start-up culture
• Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
• Equal opportunity employer