Data Analyst

McLean, VA – Data Analyst Specialist LHH has a client who needs a McLean, VA – Data Analyst Specialist will be supporting the Enterprise Business Model (EBM) effort, a strategic initiative focused on modernizing enterprise data through standardized models, improved data quality, and a shared, well-governed data ecosystem. What You'll Do: • Analyze, extract, and interpret data from enterprise databases to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and data inconsistencies. • Validate data accuracy and consistency against enterprise data models, business rules, and governance standards. • Perform data profiling and quality assessments to evaluate completeness, validity, and integrity of enterprise data. • Investigate data quality issues, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions. • Compare legacy and future-state data models while documenting data differences and transformation requirements. • Collaborate with business, application, and data teams to understand data flows, transformations, dependencies, and ownership. • Facilitate cross-functional meetings to resolve data issues and align on data definitions and quality expectations. • Support enterprise data governance initiatives by maintaining metadata, data lineage, business definitions, and control documentation. • Reconcile data across multiple systems and ensure alignment with enterprise business models. • Track data issues, remediation activities, risks, and project deliverables while communicating status updates to stakeholders and leadership. • Support historical data migration efforts, including data validation, testing, reconciliation, and operational readiness. • Develop reports, documentation, and analytical insights to support enterprise data modernization initiatives. What You'll Bring: • Strong experience with relational and non-relational databases, including advanced SQL for complex data extraction, transformation, and analysis. • Proficiency in Python for data analysis, scripting, automation, validation, and reconciliation. • Experience with Excel (advanced formulas, Pivot Tables) and semi-structured data formats such as JSON and XML. • Knowledge of REST APIs for data integration and analysis. • Hands-on experience in data profiling, data quality assessment, and data validation using manual and automated tools. • Strong understanding of enterprise data models, data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and data lifecycle management. • Experience analyzing large, complex datasets while identifying trends, anomalies, and business impacts. • Ability to translate business requirements into technical data solutions and assess upstream/downstream data dependencies. • Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills. • Foundational project management skills with experience tracking risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables. • Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and the adaptability to learn new technologies in fast-paced environments. • Experience supporting enterprise data modernization, migration, reconciliation, or governance initiatives is preferred. • Mortgage or financial services industry experience, including familiarity with Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, or similar GSE environments, is a plus. 📍 Location: McLean, VA 💵 Pay: $55 – $62/hr. 📩 Apply now to take the next step in your career! Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.lhh.com/us/en/candidate-privacy The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable: • The California Fair Chance Act • Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers • San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance