DATA ANALYST (contract)

Position overview

OCR workflow and data quality

• Monitor OCR queues, job status, completion rates, and failed or stalled batches; review logs and perform documented recovery steps.
• Coordinate reruns and priorities, sample OCR outputs against source documents, and identify incomplete, duplicate, unreadable, or poorly formatted content.
• Run validation tools, flag questionable changes, track recurring issues through resolution, and recommend review-process improvements.

Dataset management and delivery

• Maintain inventories, validate document metadata, and reconcile manifests and tracking records against actual files.
• Organize datasets using agreed folder structures, naming conventions, and versioning standards.
• Prepare delivery packages with manifests, quality summaries, and documented exceptions.
• Manage Azure storage uploads, downloads, and transfers; verify file counts and integrity and investigate routine failures.

Operations and coordination

• Maintain operational trackers and dashboards for processing progress, backlog, quality, and dataset readiness.
• Provide updates on completed batches, unresolved issues, and delivery risks; maintain procedures and support team handoffs.
• Follow approved access, retention, and data-sharing procedures and maintain records of deliveries and changes.

Required qualifications

• At least two years of relevant data analysis, data operations, data quality assurance, or dataset management experience.
• Bachelor of Science degree.
• Cloud-storage file management experience, including uploads and downloads.
• Proficiency with PDF, text, CSV, and JSON formats; experience validating completeness, accuracy, consistency, and metadata quality.
• Ability to monitor tools, dashboards, and logs; strong attention to detail, prioritization, communication, and documentation.

Preferred qualifications

• AI training-data operations experience is a plus; enterprise or large technology company experience is strongly preferred.
• Azure Storage Explorer, AzCopy, or comparable file-transfer tools; basic SQL and Python; Power BI or similar reporting tools are preferred.
• Dataset versioning, source traceability, access controls, and human-review workflow familiarity are preferred.

Location and work arrangement

• The role is based onsite in Redmond, Washington.

Contract duration

• The stated duration is eight months.