Data Operations Analyst

AgWest Farm Credit is a member-owned financial cooperative that provides financing and related services to various agricultural sectors. They are seeking a Data Operations Analyst to support their data management department, ensuring data availability and operational support for their modern data platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop, monitor, and maintain overnight and scheduled data feeds to ensure timely, accurate, and reliable data availability across the platform
• Coordinate with overnight operational support coverage team regarding activities and events to ensure consistent service
• Provide clear, timely incident communication to stakeholders, including issue status, impact, resolution progress, and post‑incident follow‑up
• Support cloud resources, including configuration, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance of Azure services to support data platform operations
• Administer and maintain data governance tools to support data quality, lineage, cataloging, and access controls across the data platform
• Manage data platform access, permissions, and user provisioning, including regular audits to ensure compliance with security, governance, and organizational policy
• Coordinate with third party vendors on work tasks, troubleshooting, and updates
• Promote data to production and other environments through mature operational process, collecting required artifacts to maintain the trust and integrity of the data platform
• Respond to data processing incidents that may require adjustments to code, processes, or data handling to complete data collection
• Update documentation for the data platform, its processes, and its features
• Provide cost management for Azure resources and sunsets unneeded components
• Perform all duties and maintain all standards in accordance with company policies, procedures, and internal controls
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Generally requires one to three years' technical experience in computer operations or related field
• Experience managing pipeline orchestration and ETL processes
• Experience using DevOps for code management and deployment
• Ability to read, modify, and write SQL statements to query databases
• Experience creating and configuring cloud infrastructure, cloud resources, and networking
• Intellectual curiosity and ability to structure and solve problems
• Experience with Databricks and Unity Catalog
• Experience with Microsoft Azure creating, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting resources including storage accounts, key vaults, databases, and networking
• Experience with Data Governance tools to manage data quality, data lineage, and data catalogs
• Experience managing and utilizing Azure DevOps for code deployment
• Experience with Terraform for deploying infrastructure
• Experience reading, modifying, and creating python code
• Working knowledge of Microsoft data products
• Experience writing and maintaining technical documentation including diagrams

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Basic term life and AD&D insurance (fully paid for by the company)
• Paid days off annually: 15 vacation*, 15 sick, 12 holidays and 3 volunteer
• 401(k) plan (6% match plus 3% employer contribution)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness Program
• Jeans are welcome at work every day at AgWest!
• Vacation accrual rates increase with tenure.

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