Sr Data Analyst

Job Title: Sr Data Analyst Company: Target Job Category: Data Science Roles & Responsibilities: 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 8. 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 Work Location: Karnataka, India Availability: Full time

Requirements / About You: Experience: Overall 5-8 years exp and relevant 3-5 years exp Qualification: US : BA/BS in a quantitative degree – Math, Statistics, Econometrics, Data Sciences, Computer Science or equivalent work experience 2. Proven hands-on experience in BI Visualization tool (i.e. PBI, Looker, Tableau) with ability to learn additional vendor and proprietary visualizations tools. 4. Hands on experience in R, Python, Hive or other open-source languages/database 11. Experience with Retail, Merchandising, Marketing will be strong addons Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits * 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