Connecting People. Uniting the World. There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines! As a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world — with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees — we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly.
We’re on a path toward becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Join our Cybersecurity and Digital Risk (CDR) team to help us also become the leading cyber-safe airline in the industry. United’s CDR team is tasked with keeping our customers’ and employees’ information safe and secure. Our primary mission is to embed cybersecurity into the DNA of United Airlines by reducing business risk through implementation of strong cybersecurity best practices.
United offers a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world and help us keep our airline cyber safe? Apply today!
Key Responsibilities:
Manager Data Analyst – IT is a data driven leader with a passion for data and analytics, the willingness to dig deep into details, and the ability to assess the big picture and identify process improvement. Developing and maintaining good relationships with key partners across Digital Technology and Product teams with a good understanding of the business, as well as leading, coaching, training, and motivating a hard-working team are keys to success in this role. This team would be integral to interpret data gathered from various sources and interpret patterns and trends and turns it into information which improves Operational Excellence (OX). This role requires a communicator with passion for finding the signal in data and ability to come up with improvements to applications and metrics to be measured. Should be comfortable enough to communicate with the developers, platform teams, business analysts, user experience and the leadership in influencing change based on the data. The team will partner with Customer Travel Experience (CTE) product owners on operational metrics. This role
United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply. While having the “desired” qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes. We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table.
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Data science or another quantitative field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Operations Research)
- 4+ years in Data Analysis, Business intelligence, analytics, and data engineering, with 3+ of those years working for a Fortune 500 company.
- 3+ years in a manager role
- Experience putting together presentations for partners and leaders at a MD and VP level and interact with all levels of management
- Proven Team Manager, ability to communicate a vision, inspire the team towards that vision and provide support to achieve it
- Expert level BI dashboarding experience (e.g. PowerBI, Tibco Spotfire, etc...) to produce important, elegant dashboards. Advanced Excel knowledge
- Ability to study/understand business needs, design data/technology metrics that connect business processes with quantifiable platform outcomes, Understand important metrics / Goal Settings from teams to large organizations
- Advanced level SQL skills
- Strong problem-solving skills, using data to tackle problems
- Outstanding writing, communication, and presentation skills
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
- Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
- Master's degree in Information Systems, Aviation management or related degree, MBA
- Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate, Power BI Data Analyst Associate, AWS Certified Data Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehouse certifications, Palantir, Client Side performance metrics tools e.g. Quantum Metrics
- Experience with DataDog / AppD / Kibana is a big plus
- Experience with Enterprise monitoring systems is a plus
- Experience with Palantir Foundry, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
- Previous airline or travel industry experience is a plus
- Experience with AWS - Redshift, Quicksight, Athena
- Experience with Big Query
- Experience with Quantum Metrics and Akamai, Technologies and languages\: Python, Spark, R, etc.
- Continuous integration & delivery using Agile methodologies
- Data Engineering experience.