[Remote] Data Analyst, Dairy Predictive Solutions
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zoetis is a leader in animal health, and they are seeking a Data Analyst for their Dairy Predictive Solutions team. The role involves supporting the development and maintenance of data queries and analytics pipelines, ensuring data quality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet commercial and scientific objectives.
Responsibilities
- Design, write, and optimize SQL queries that power dairy predictive algorithms and customer-facing platform analytics, ensuring peak performance and efficiency
- Support the deployment and lifecycle management of dairy analytics and predictive algorithms by preparing, validating, and transforming input data and reviewing algorithm outputs for internal consistency
- Perform data mapping and modeling exercises to translate business and scientific requirements into accurate data and analytic specifications for technical development teams
- Perform quality checks on available data to ensure completeness, internal consistency, and suitability for use in production models and customer-facing outputs
- Prepare documentation and technical specifications describing data structures, query logic, data flows, and process details for business and technical stakeholders
- Maintain accurate logs of pending and completed projects to support accurate prioritization of effort. Actively manage pending requests and reprioritization in consultation with department-level and business leadership as business needs evolve globally
- Collaborate with R&D and data science teams to support scientific innovation by ensuring the data infrastructure enables rapid iteration on dairy algorithms and models
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Animal Science, Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field
- 3+ years of experience with relational SQL databases, including query writing, optimization, and performance tuning (required)
- 2+ years of animal agriculture (especially dairy) experience or demonstrated familiarity with animal agriculture data ecosystems
- Ability to provide data analysis for multiple projects concurrently
- Excellent data organizational skills required
- Strong communication skills are essential
- Ability to work across time zones in support of global business units and development teams
- Advanced SQL proficiency required, including experience with query optimization and performance tuning
- Microsoft Excel or related experience is required
- Business or data analyst experience covering requirements gathering through to solution delivery is preferred
- Experience with dairy software platforms including DC305, Bovisync, PCDart, or DHIPlus and understanding of underlying data elements is preferred
- Experience with systems such as Databricks, data lakes, or data warehouses is preferred
- Experience with Python or other scripting languages is preferred
- Experience with AI-supported technical implementation is preferred
Benefits
- Short-term incentive compensation
- Long-term incentives
- Healthcare and insurance benefits beginning on day one
- A 401K plan with a match and profit-sharing contribution from Zoetis
- 4 weeks of vacation
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