(Vacancy) Senior Data Analyst @MaxMind

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MaxGeest (www.maxmind.nl) is looking for a talented, experienced and highly motivated Senior Data Analyst to help us develop and enhance our IP address-based data products through advanced data analytics. We help protect thousands of businesses worldwide from fraud, screen over three billion online transactions per year and provide IP intelligence data to thousands more. As a Senior Data Analyst, you will play a key role in helping to develop and maintain our products and platform.

This is a full-time remote position and we welcome candidates to apply from anywhere in Canada. You must be eligible/authorized to work in Canada.

The position

As a Senior Data Analyst, your role will be to execute both large and small analysis projects on IP-based data. You could be working on adding data-driven features to existing products, investigating and improving existing data pipelines and code, automating data analysis, and developing entirely new services. We are looking for someone with a background in data analysis who can work independently and as part of a team, can make sound technical decisions, and is comfortable with coding as part of data analysis. All applicants will be given a code-based data analysis exercise.

Our salary range for the Senior Data Analyst role starts at $115,000 CAD, with specific offers dependent on skills and experience. See more about benefits and compensation below.

About You — Minimum Qualifications

  • Strong statistical skills in data analysis and a passion for finding patterns and answering questions with large data sets.
  • Can write high quality Python for data analysis. Familiar with SQL and experience or willingness to learn Go.
  • You are comfortable using analysis notebooks such as Collab or Jupyter instead of Business Intelligence tools for data analysis.
  • Experience performing data analytics in Google Cloud or similar environments.
  • Experience in writing code and producing documentation.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • The ability to work with a geographically dispersed team.

    • Desired, but not required

  • Experience with network, security or fraud issues and using IP geolocation in these use cases.
  • Experience using data analytics to create data-driven products for internal use or for sale to customers.
  • Continue to develop your data science skills.
  • An interest in picking up new programming languages. Most of our data pipeline production code is Go and Perl.
  • Contribute open source code or data analysis. Tell us about it!
  • Interested in performance, security and data privacy.
  • Experience with Postgres or other relational databases.

    • Working at MaxMind

    Our culture is very important to us. We are friendly, collaborative, and focused on work. We don’t like office politics or unnecessary stress. We like productive workdays and don’t want work to catch up with us when we’re done for the day. We have a set of core hours, overlapping hours, but are flexible with specific start and end times and are understanding of commitments and life events. We care about helping each other succeed.

    A recent survey found that employees cited a supportive work environment, fun coworkers, autonomy, and feeling trusted, valued, and respected as the most important things about their job here.

    MaxMind has a social mission. MaxMind donates more than 60% of its profits to charities.

    MaxMind’s rewards are designed to reward the work done, the quality of the work, and the collaboration with others.

    As a fully remote company, communication takes place via video chat, group chat and Agile planning tools.

    Advantages

    In addition to competitive compensation, our Canadian benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, accident and dismemberment insurance, critical illness, short-term and long-term disability insurance, Employee and Family Assistance Program, and paid parental leave. You also have access to a group retirement savings plan. In lieu of a Canadian RRSP contribution, we offer a bonus payout at the end of each year that employees can use toward retirement savings.

    Everyone participates in a company performance-based bonus plan. MaxMind offers a $2,000 USD professional development budget and five professional development days per year.

    Diversity and inclusion

    We value diversity and inclusion and aim to integrate these into all aspects of our business.

    We strongly encourage applications from candidates of color, women, queer candidates, candidates with family caregiving responsibilities, transgender candidates, and other communities not well represented in tech.

    Our application process

    One of the first steps in our application process is a homework assignment, and we will ask you to submit a submission so that we can gain insight into your work. The next step in our application process would be a pairing session combined with a first round technical interview with our hiring manager and another member of the data/engineering team. This interview will cover questions specific to the role. Then there would be a final interview with our COO and our HR Manager. That interview would be a more general/behavioral interview. The last step in our application process is a reference check.

    Being a successful candidate (interest and suitability)

    Your application must include a complete response to the Interest and Fit section. Please indicate why you are interested in this position at MaxMind and why you would be a good fit. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

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