Data Analyst I

About the Team:

At Careem, the mission for the NextGen Programme is to help grow our engineers by learning how to write Clean Code, use SOLID principle techniques, and design reliable systems. The ultimate goal is to train new engineers to build excellent foundations with high standards. Our Programme covers vast areas in engineering: Backend, Frontend, Web, Mobile, Data Analysis, MLOps, Infrastructure, Cyber Security and QA.

Part of Careem NextGen Team, the mission of the program is to train the new Analysts to build Analytical excellence foundations with high standards. You will have access to some of the most exciting projects and advanced tech for accelerated learning and exposure, leveraging modern analysis and visualization tools to solve the region's day to day problems.

The Careem Analytics team's mission is to build and track the full lively picture for Careem businesses and experiences, uphold the experience bar, provide actionable insights, formulate problems and contribute to solving them.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the first point of contact to answer all business data queries.
• Develop effective reporting solutions by utilizing engineering best practices and various reporting tools.
• Participate in continuous improvement of these reporting solutions.
• Ability to quickly understand business requirements and questions and find innovative ways to answer those through data analysis.
• Drive and support your designated business unit by converting complex data and findings into understandable tables, graphs, and written reports.
• Present appropriate analysis and commentary to technical and non-technical audience.
• Gain subject matter expertise and help define appropriate key metrics for the business unit and discover untapped areas for business improvement.
• Run regular data integrity audits.
• Devise and evaluate methods for collecting data, such as surveys, questionnaires, and opinion polls.
• Gather data about consumers, competitors, and market conditions.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of demonstrated experience working in an analytical role.
• 1+ years of demonstrated experience with business intelligence and visualization tools creating management dashboards.
• Strong analytical skills with expertise in SQL and large datasets.
• Passion for learning new technologies and working on large-scale, impactful products.
• Expert at writing SQL queries against large amounts of data.
• Self-starter with excellent communication, organizational skills, and the ability to work in complex operational environments.
• Ability to get hands-on in a complex operational environment.
• Must be process oriented and a logical thinker with good attention to detail.
• Experience with BI tools (e.g., Tableau, MicroStrategy, Looker) for dashboards.
• Knowledge of Python, R, Spark, Hive, and data lakes (preferred).

What we'll provide you:

• We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow.
• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Enjoy the flexibility that comes with the trust of being an owner; work in a hybrid style with a mix of days at the office and at home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year.
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including: gym, health club and training classes.