Who is Quantium? 

Quantium is a world leader in data science and artificial intelligence. Established in Australia in 2002, Quantium is a global team of more than 1,100 people across 14 locations with a unique blend of capabilities across product and consulting services to help businesses unlock value from data and analytics. Quantium partners with the world’s largest corporations to forge a better, more insightful world. 

Our Hyderabad office plays a crucial role in our global operations, working alongside teams in Australia, UK, and US to deliver cutting-edge solutions for our clients.

How will you make an impact?  

The Senior Analyst, Foundational Analytics role is a technical contributor and task management role within a cross-functional team accountable for the delivery of a data products roadmap. Working together with the Analytics Lead, analysts and other technical specialists from analytics and software engineering disciplines, the Senior Analyst will be responsible for the design and specification of analytics that forms part of the core solution offered by Quantium foundational analytics.

Key responsibilities

• Accountable for the delivery of advanced analytics solutions into Quantium’s core data assets
• Develop and execute roadmap for the ongoing development of our foundational data assets
• Project management including overseeing and delegating technical tasks amongst analysts
• Code review and quality assurance of output produced by analysts
• Support the Analytics Lead with analytics architecture and solution design

Key activities

• Set and manage roadmap for one foundational data asset including weighting, data curation, customer segmentation and other foundational analytics with the support of Analytics Lead

• Acting as business liaison to relate consulting requirements into data product specification for assigned sections analytics efforts

• Delivery of tasks to support a data products roadmap and BAU tasks, working in a cross-functional team managed by Analytics Lead

• Leading assigned sections of analytics solution design with minimal guidance (e.g. foundational analytics, descriptive analytics, product analytics etc)

• Creation of analytics approaches to solve business problems in a scalable and repeatable way

• Design, development or testing of an analytics algorithm, including prototyping

• Writing the specifications for an analytics algorithm to be implemented by software engineers

• Peer reviewing the work of other analysts (both conceptual and documentation)

• Carrying out a process required for BAU delivery of any aspect of the data product that needs regular production

• Investigating objections or issues raised by users.

• Following and instilling in junior team members the best practice guidelines, tools and formal processes for analytics practised at Quantium

• Liaising with users of the data products, predominantly internal, to respond to queries and objections, and communicate updates relating to delivery of new features and BAU

• Providing estimates of work effort, timeframes and costings for analytics tasks. Peer reviewing estimates developed by team members

• Taking active steps to continuously improve own performance and drive own career development, requesting assistance as required

• Taking active steps to drive improvement in the knowledge, capability level and quality of work of Associate Analysts and Analysts in own team

The superpowers you’ll be bringing to the team:  

• Sound knowledge of technical analytics discipline, including data preparation, experiment design, feature engineering and foundational analytics concepts, descriptive analytics
• Some specialisation is assumed – not every Senior Analyst will be conversant in every discipline, but should aim to have: sufficient skills in several disciplines or techniques to autonomously apply without the need for material guidance or revision by others; and
• sufficient skills in at least one discipline or technique to be an authoritative source of guidance and support for the team, and to be able to solve problems of a high technical complexity in this domain
• Sound knowledge of one or more technical tools and coding languages that are used for analytics A broad range is used at Quantium and the concepts are transferable, so we do not require a specific set of tools
• However, some tools and programming languages that might qualify include (in no particular order): R, Python, SQL, Scala, Haskell, SAS, MATLAB, S-Plus, C/C++, Perl
• Strong problem-solving skills, including ability to apply a systematic problem-solving approach
• Solid interpersonal skills, as the role will need to work in a cross-functional team with both other analysts and specialists from non-analytics disciplines
• Solid client and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to autonomously carry out work following analytics best practice as defined at Quantium for the relevant types of tools or techniques, suggesting improvements where appropriate
• Ability to motivate peers to follow analytics best practice as defined at Quantium, by positively presenting the benefits and importance of these ways of working
• Commercial acumen to understand business needs and the commercial impacts of different analytics solutions or approaches
• Attention to detail
• Drive for continuous improvement
• 5-7 years’ experience in a highly technical analytics environment, carrying out data analytics or data science work
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, mathematics, actuarial studies, statistics, physics, or a related discipline

What could your Quantium Experience look like? 

Working at Quantium will allow you to challenge your imagination. You will get to solve complex problems using rigor, precision and by asking great questions – but it also means you can think big, outside the box and push your problem-solving skills to the max. 

By joining the Quantium team, you’ll get to: 

Forge your path: So many of our team have moved around different teams or offices. You’ll be in the driver’s seat, and we empower you to make your career your own. 

Find your kind: Embrace diversity and connect with your tribe (think foodies, dog lovers, readers, or runners). 

Make an impact: Leave your mark. Your contributions resonate, regardless of your role or rank. 

On top of the Quantium Experience, you will enjoy a range of great benefits that go beyond the ordinary. Some of these include:  

Flexible work arrangements: Achieve work life balance at your own pace with hybrid and flexible work arrangements. 

Continuous learning: Our vision is empowering analytics talent to thrive. The Analytics Community fosters the development of individuals, thought leadership and technical excellence at Quantium through building strong connections, fostering collaboration, and co-creation of best practice. 

Remote working: Embrace the opportunity to work outside of your assigned home location for up to 2 months every year.  

Quantium’s recruitment process involves the collection and use of personal information. Please click on the link “Privacy” for Quantium’s Collection Notice. This provides information on how we collect, use & store your personal information, including potential disclosure to our majority shareholder, Woolworths Group Limited.