Alight Solutions Technology/Software

Senior Associate

Noida, India In person Full-time

Location: IN-UP-Noida-Candor TechSpace Tower 1

We are looking for an experienced Analytics Engineer – Senior Associate to design, develop, and enhance scalable analytics and reporting solutions. The role will focus on transforming complex data into reliable, business-ready datasets, dashboards, and actionable insights using Amazon QuickSight, SQL, AWS data services, and modern analytics technologies.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on analytics engineering skills, experience building executive and operational dashboards, and exposure to AI/Generative AI capabilities that can improve analytics, automation, and data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, KPIs, and visualizations using Amazon QuickSight.
  • Build scalable analytical datasets and semantic/data models to support reporting and self-service analytics.
  • Develop complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, validation, and analysis.
  • Work with AWS data platforms and services such as Amazon Redshift, S3, Athena, Glue, and QuickSight.
  • Optimize dashboard performance, queries, datasets, and underlying data models.
  • Translate business requirements into meaningful KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and analytical solutions.
  • Perform data profiling, reconciliation, validation, and root-cause analysis to ensure data accuracy.
  • Partner with Data Engineering, Product, Business, and Platform teams to deliver end-to-end analytics solutions.
  • Support automation of recurring analytics/reporting processes.
  • Apply appropriate access controls and data security practices for dashboards and datasets.
  • Explore and implement AI/Generative AI-assisted analytics use cases, such as natural-language insights, automated summarization, anomaly identification, and intelligent reporting.
  • Troubleshoot production analytics issues and continuously improve reporting performance and user experience.
  • Document data definitions, business rules, KPIs, and reporting logic.

Required Technical Skills

Core Skills

  • Strong Amazon QuickSight experience, including dashboards, datasets, calculated fields, filters, parameters, and visualization design.
  • Advanced SQL and strong understanding of relational/data warehouse concepts.
  • Experience with Amazon Redshift or comparable cloud data warehouses.
  • Strong knowledge of data modeling, dimensional modeling, KPIs, metrics, and reporting design.
  • Experience handling large datasets and optimizing analytical queries.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and data-validation skills.

AWS / Data

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon Redshift

Amazon S3

Amazon Athena

AWS Glue

IAM/security fundamentals

ETL/ELT concepts

Additional Analytics Skills

  • Experience with Tableau and/or Power BI is desirable.
  • Python/Pandas knowledge for analytics and automation is preferred.
  • Understanding of APIs, JSON, CSV, Parquet, and common data integration patterns.
  • Familiarity with Git and CI/CD practices is an advantage.

AI / Generative AI Exposure

  • Candidates should have working knowledge or practical exposure to areas such as:
  • Generative AI and LLM-based analytics
  • Natural-language querying and insight generation
  • AI-assisted dashboard/report summarization
  • Data classification and automated analytics workflows
  • Prompt engineering fundamentals
  • RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) concepts
  • Exposure to AWS AI services such as Amazon Bedrock is a plus
  • Python-based integration with AI/ML services is desirable
  • AI expertise is not expected to be the primary specialization, but the candidate should be comfortable adopting AI capabilities within modern analytics solutions.

Experience & Qualifications

  • Typically 4–7+ years of experience across analytics, BI, data engineering, or related areas.
  • Strong hands-on experience delivering production-grade dashboards and analytical solutions.
  • Experience working in an AWS-based data ecosystem.
  • Ability to independently understand requirements and convert them into technical analytics solutions.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work with technical teams and business stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Profile

  • An ideal candidate would have a skill mix roughly centered around:
  • QuickSight + SQL + Data Modeling + AWS/Redshift + BI/Visualization + Python/Automation + AI/GenAI exposure
  • This keeps the role firmly Analytics Engineering focused, while adding enough AWS and AI capability to make it suitable for a modern analytics organization.
  • We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

DISCLAIMER

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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