Visualization Developer

General Position Summary:

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground. Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: "It's perfect. Now make it better." As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest. And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Although we're an apparel and footwear focused company, data is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear's Data and Analytics (D&A) team advances and enables reporting and analytic capabilities across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. The team is comprised of experts across data analysis and modeling, platforms and operations, engineering, data governance, analytics, and data science.

As the Senior Visualization Analyst, you will be part of a growing Enterprise Analytics organization within D&A and play a key role in crafting the path for visualization standards for the Enterprise and, in particular, for Data Science. You will use your advanced technical and artistic skills to create complex, easily consumable visualizations on top of predictive datasets, data models, and data sources. You will work with business stakeholders to understand requirements, interpret reporting, and present insights to leadership in an impactful and intuitive way. You will work with BI Developers designing and architecting data models as well as assisting in quality assurance (QA) and enhancements.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE:

• Interpret general business needs to create meaningful and actionable reporting with powerful visualization utilizing available datasets and models.
• Work closely with technical team (data analysts and engineers) to convert business requirements into technical data requirements for modeling into datasets/models needed for reports and visualizations. Assist with query scripts, staged table structure, and model design. Partner with BI Developers on model design and validation.
• Contribute to research and identification of advanced tooling and techniques for data science data visualization.
• Lead lunch and learns and demonstrations on analytical tools and/or concepts. Manage cross-functional knowledge shares across the organization identifying best practices, new features, and alternative uses for Power BI.
• Make recommendations on setting principles, standards and methods for visualization
• Evangelize data, tools, methods, standards and principles that increase organizational access to data and adhoc capabilities, and create easily consumable, intuitive visualizations to help stakeholders draw conclusions and drive data-informed decisions.
• Assist with managing security groups and report security. Work with Columbia Digital Technology (CDT) and Infosec in developing ABAC security protocols.

Job Scope:

• Global and Enterprise: your work will impact across the organization
• Complex analysis, detailed design, and complex troubleshooting abilities, requiring a highly analytical mindset.
• Daily interaction and visible to the Columbia business community.

YOU ARE:

• A professional visual storyteller and data visualization expert
• An experienced translator of business needs to easily consumable solutions
• At ease creating for executive level audience
• Solutions-oriented: Solves complex problems and develops independent creative solutions based on the evaluation of multiple options.
• Able to apply independent analysis based on in-depth research and critical thinking to recommend solutions.
• A practitioner of human-centered design and UX
• An expert in Power BI, Excel, Power Point, DAX, SQL, Databricks.
• Pluses : You experiment or have working experience in Sigma or other ML-sourced visualization tools. You have a passion for data science

YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field -or- work experience equivalent to a degree.
• 5-8 years of professional experience and strong competency with the various tools, systems, or procedures required to accomplish the job. (see specific job skills in "YOU ARE" section)
• Experience working in multiple data environments at scale
• An amazing work portfolio of work and samples to share

Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.