About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Autonomous Vehicle Technology.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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Position Overview

Confidential Client is seeking a Data Analyst (Information Technology & Applications) for a contract engagement based in California. This role focuses on workforce analytics, capacity planning, and operational reporting to support staffing strategy and service-level performance. Contract is approximately 6 months. The estimated pay is $63.45/hr (hourly rate provided by the source and subject to change based on experience).

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What You’ll Do

• Develop quantitative staffing, capacity-planning, demand-forecasting, and scenario-based models to evaluate resource requirements and operational performance.
• Analyze operational, workforce, staffing, throughput, and service data to identify trends, coverage gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Build and maintain dashboards, recurring reports, and analytical tools that provide visibility into operational performance, workforce coverage, capacity, and readiness.
• Use SQL and Python (Pandas) to extract, transform, validate, and combine data from multiple systems; investigate and resolve data-quality issues.
• Provide data-driven decision support for operational initiatives, staffing strategies, resource allocation, and ad-hoc analyses; communicate practical recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative/technical discipline.
• 3–5 years of experience in data analysis, operations analytics, workforce analytics, or a closely related field.
• Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with Python and Pandas for data extraction, manipulation, processing, and analysis.
• Experience developing dashboards and reporting solutions using Looker, Tableau, Databricks, or comparable analytics/visualization tools, and handling large, complex datasets.
• Strong quantitative problem-solving, communication, organizational, and data-quality skills; demonstrated ability to apply analytical models to workforce planning, forecasting, resource allocation, and capacity management.

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Preferred Skills & Tools

• SQL
• Python (Pandas)
• Capacity planning & demand forecasting
• Workforce analytics and operational modeling
• Dashboard development (Looker, Tableau, Databricks, etc.)
• Familiarity with queueing theory and Erlang models is a plus
• Ability to translate analysis into clear, actionable recommendations

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Compensation & Duration

• Pay: $63.45 per hour (estimated; final offer based on experience and client policies).
• Duration: Approximately 6 months (contract).
• Employment type: Contract / Associate-level.

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Location & Compliance

This role is based in California. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. Confidential Client and Careertakes comply with applicable federal and state hiring laws, including pay-transparency and non-discrimination requirements.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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