Senior Data Analyst

osition: Senior Data Analyst/ BI Specialist

Type: Permanent

Working mode: 2 days WFH, 3 days WFO

Location: (Penang Office) (hybrid)..

Job Requirements

• Front-end analytics & UX (heavy emphasis)
• Design and ship executive-grade dashboards with a consistent design system, themes, and layout patterns; optimize for clarity, accessibility, and mobile.
• Build reusable visual components (cards, KPI tiles, small multiples, sparklines, decomposition trees) and reusable page templates that teams can self-serve.
• Implement filter persistence and global UX (synced slicers, disconnected Period tables, calculation groups) so selections carry across all reports.
• Create custom visuals or extend visuals when needed (TypeScript/React/Vega/Vega-Lite a plus).
• Partner with Snowflake engineers to shape Gold views/tables for BI; write and perform SQL tasks
• Understand tasks, warehouses, masking/tags; ensure models are cost-aware and scalable.
• Analyze complex datasets to identify trends, patters and insights.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues related to data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) processes
• Manage and maintain performance and availability of all dashboards real time
• Design and implement quick prototype models for dashboards
• Develop and execute test plans to ensure the accuracy and reliability of BI solutions

Preferred skills & experience

• 5–8+ years in BI/analytics; 4+ years deep Power BI (Desktop + Service) with a portfolio of high-adoption reports.
• Advanced DAX (time-intelligence, virtual tables, iterator vs filter context), Power Query (M), star schema design.
• Performance tuning: query folding, composite models, incremental refresh, aggregation tables, calculation groups.
• Security & governance, Pipelines
• Solid SQL; able to validate against Snowflake tables/views and reason about medallion architecture.
• Communication: crisp storytelling with data; able to run workshops with finance, sales, product, and execs.

Nice-to-have

· Snowflake basics (tasks, warehouses, tagging, masking policies) and cost/perf awareness.

· Azure stack: Azure AD/Entra, Key Vault, Logic Apps/Power Automate, Functions; GitHub/ADO CI/CD.

· Exposure to Salesforce/SAP data models; APIs/SharePoint integration; S3 or data lake patterns.

· Python for light data prep/quality checks.

· Experience with AI-assisted analytics (e.g., Snowflake Cortex/Analyst or Copilots) and semantic layer design.

Education & certification

· Bachelor's in CS/IS/Engineering/Math (or equivalent experience).

· Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate or equivalent

Job success Criteria

• Experience supporting a Training, Learning, Development or Talent Management team
• Knowledge Retention - In order to provide the highest quality of work, analysts must be able to learn and memorize a large amount of information.
• Detail Oriented – Analysts must be able to focus on the details in order to identify and isolate issues.
• Organizational Skills – Analysts must be organized and able to keep track of multiple projects at once.
• Flexibility - Analysts must be able to handle multiple tasks at once and follow changes in priority level.
• Speed - Must be able to work quickly and efficiently without sacrificing the quality of their work.
• Full Professional Proficiency in English is required
• Able to complete advanced statistical analysis is required
• Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:Call, video, email, message and communicate with dealers and co-workers

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: RM9, RM11,600.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• Have you worked in a role which requires a sound understanding of business intelligence (BI) best practices?

• Notice period?

• Expected Salary?

Experience:

• using SQL queries: 5 years (Preferred)
• as Power BI Specialist?: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person