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If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity. 

The Senior Data Specialist - Data Operations will contribute to the optimization of our North American Data Operations. You will be performing the end-to-end data operations process, ensuring the availability, integrity, and accuracy of data on our flagship product Orbis. This role will assist in creating and documenting processes for our data pipeline, remediating observations in our data leveraging automation and rules engines as well as interrogating the data using data analytics skills.

Key Responsibilities Include:

Data Quality Management: Execute and help define processes and methodologies to monitor, measure, and improve data quality across different data sources, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and completeness. Manage the quality if data elements from ingestion to publication, report anomalies and work with technology teams to resolve.

Data Operations Optimization: Perform the necessary analysis to evaluate and enhance data operations processes, helping to identify opportunities to automate, streamline, and improve efficiency and effectiveness. Provide and update documentation regarding collection methods, internal procedures, definitions, and meta data.

Data Integration and ETL: Contribute to the design and implementation of data integration and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to enable seamless data flow across systems, applications, and databases. Work with local information providers.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Sales, Content and Product Strategy to develop knowledge on our customer’s use cases, understand business requirements and priorities to reach our business objectives. This role will also be collaborating with Technology, to help design and optimize data architecture, data model, and data pipeline. Support clients and internal stakeholders with data-related requests.

Qualifications:

• Preferred Bachelor’s degree in: Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Economics, Finance, or related major.
• Experience in data operations, data management, data analytics, automation or a related role.
• Advanced SQL
• Working knowledge of Oracle, Redshift and Postgres is a plus
• Good working knowledge of Python is a plus
• Good working knowledge of automation capabilities (Selenium or others) is a plus
• Understanding of data architectures, data modeling, ETL processes, and data integration technologies.
• English B2+ or Better
• Preferred experience working with extremely large data sets.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of collaborating with diverse stakeholders and presenting complex ideas in a clear and concise manner to support organizational decision-making.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to recognize and comprehend complex issues, processes, and requirements regarding managing large data sets.
• Preferred demonstrated ability to drive process improvements and operational efficiency through the application of technology and automation.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once.
• Hybrid work with 2 days in the office- Flexible

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.