Technology & Data
Data Analyst
Turns raw operational data into reports and answers that a business team can act on.
Duties vary by employer, sector and team size. Use this as a memory aid — only add what you actually did.
What a typical day looks like
Clarifies a business question, pulls and cleans the data, checks it against a trusted source, then publishes a dashboard or short written answer.
What you actually do
- Wrote SQL queries against operational and warehouse tables
- Built and maintained recurring dashboards
- Validated figures against a system of record before publishing
- Documented metric definitions and data caveats
- Presented findings to non-technical stakeholders
Common tools and systems
SQL
Power BI
Tableau
Excel
Python
Looker Studio
Transferable skills
SQL
Data cleaning
Dashboarding
Metric definition
Stakeholder communication
How it changes by level
- Entry
- Answers defined questions and maintains existing reports.
- Mid
- Owns a reporting domain and challenges the question behind the request.
- Senior
- Defines the metric layer and governs data quality across teams.
Related moves
Software Engineer
Financial Analyst
Product Manager
Questions that surface your evidence
- Which decisions or teams depended on your reports?
- How many dashboards or recurring reports did you own?
- What data quality issue did you find and fix?
Source and review
HRSD Saudi Skills & Occupations framework (editorially reviewed) · hrsd.gov.sa
Reviewed: 2026-08-01 · Saudi-specific reference
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