Sr Data Analyst

Job Title: Sr Data Analyst Company: Target Job Category: Data Science Roles & Responsibilities: As a Sr Data Analyst for Target’s Data Analytics team you’ll: Support our world\-class leadership team at Target with critical data analysis that helps business team to make profitable decisions. Enable faster, smarter and more scalable decision\-making to compete and win the modern retail market. Collaborate with stakeholders and understand their priorities/roadmap to drive business strategies using data. Key Responsibilities * Translate business problems into well\-defined analytical questions and structured approaches * Support scenario, decision, and action modelling to evaluate business trade\-offs and inform recommended actions * Partner with Target business stakeholders to understand priorities and roadmaps, validate analytical requirements, and present insights and recommendations with clarity and impact * Develop and deliver analytical and AI\-driven solutions (including GenAI, Agent, and Agentic approaches) that enable decision support, forecasting, optimization, and automation * Apply advanced analytics techniques, including causal, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, to drive deeper understanding of business levers and inform optimal actions * Work with large\-scale datasets using platforms such as GCP BigQuery, Spark, and SQL\-based data warehouses; build and maintain reliable data pipelines using Airflow or similar orchestration tools * Contribute to AI\-driven analytical workflows, defining quality metrics (e.g., accuracy, relevance), assessing reliability, and measuring tangible business impact * Ensure analytical outputs are accurate, scalable, and aligned with business context * Develop strong data storytelling skills to communicate insights and recommendations to non\-technical audiences * Document analytical methodologies, assumptions, and outputs to support reuse and knowledge sharing * Adhere to corporate data protection standards and responsible AI practices Skills Required * Extensive exposure to Structured Query Language (SQL), SQL Optimization and DW/BI concepts. * Proven hands\-on experience in BI Visualization tool (i.e. PBI, Looker, Tableau) with ability to learn additional vendor and proprietary visualizations tools. * Strong knowledge of structured (i.e. Teradata, Oracle, Hive) and unstructured databases including Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Exposure and extensive hands\-on work with large data sets. * Hands on experience in R, Python, Hive or other open\-source languages/database * Hands on experience in any advanced analytical techniques like Regression, Time\-series models, Classification Techniques, etc. and conceptual understanding of all the techniques mentioned above * Git source code management \& experience working in an agile environment. * Strong attention to detail, excellent diagnostic, and problem\-solving skills * Highly self\-motivated with a strong sense of urgency to be able to work both independently and in team settings in a fast\-paced environment; capability to manage urgency timelines * Competent and curious to ask questions and learn to fill gaps, desire to teach and learn. * Excellent communication, service orientation and strong relationship building skills * Experience with Retail, Merchandising, Marketing will be strong addons * Hands\-on experience leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) and LLM\-based solutions (e.g., prompt engineering, Retrieval\-Augmented Generation – RAG) to enhance data analysis, automate insight generation, and support business decision\-making * Ability to integrate AI\-driven tools and AI\-agent workflows into end\-to\-end analytical processes, enabling automation, improving productivity, and scaling analytics use cases. Work Location: Bengaluru East, Karnataka, India Availability: Full time

Requirements / About You Experience: Overall 5\-8 years exp and relevant 3\-5 years exp Qualification TI : B.Tech / B.E. or Masters in Statistics /Econometrics/Mathematics equivalent US : BA/BS in a quantitative degree – Math, Statistics, Econometrics, Data Sciences, Computer Science or equivalent work experience Useful Links\- Life at Target\- https://india.target.com/ Benefits\- https://india.target.com/life\-at\-target/workplace/benefits Know More About Us Here * Life at Target: https://india.target.com/ * Benefits: https://india.target.com/life\-at\-target/workplace/benefits * Culture: https://india.target.com/life\-at\-target/belonging * Target Tech: https://tech.target.com/ Key Skills: Python, SQL, Statistics, Tableau Salary: Not disclosed