Data Operations Analyst

We’re looking for our next Data Operations Analyst who has a particular specialty or interest in web scraping and extracting data from the open source.

Reporting to our Director of Product with dotted-line leadership from the VP of Product, the core of this position is dedicated to applying a data-centric approach to the build out of our knowledge centers and databases. Tackling some of the world’s most pressing security issues, you will develop and publish data that enables our clients to better navigate global markets. 

Extracting information from the open-source and incorporating your findings into our platform, you will collaboratively work with the Data Ops and Data Science teams to identify, analyze and structure relevant new data products. This position requires a heightened curiosity and attention to detail. Ultimately responsible for the data-quality of existing and new data being introduced into our core data, you will lean on your resourcefulness and sharpened critical thinking skills to scope, capture and scrape information in a concerted effort that supercharges Kharon’s content development.

Experience, education or interest in business intelligence research, conflict and illicit finance analysis, banking sector risk management and compliance or national security-related matters will catapult your success in this role as these elements are core to our business. Again, you should have some sort of experience in conducting open-source research, finding useful resources for data collection and cleaning up/interpreting the data before you. Ultimately, your goal will be to take large amounts of information and turn it all into something that makes sense. 

If you speak Russian, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, or Farsi, that's a huge bonus! We'd love to bring more folks onboard who can help us navigate those languages and cultures.

Responsibilities: 

• Monitoring enforcement actions, litigation, and policy activity by regulatory agencies for developments relevant to Kharon’s data products

• Conducting background research on issues in international affairs and identify relevant data sources
• Driving the curation, publication, maintenance, and quality assurance of datasets
• Performing data validation and reconciliation to support new data products and partnership initiatives
• Following best practices to ensure data collection is responsible, ethical, and secure
• Collaborating cross-functionally to extract key data and align data collection with business value and requirements
• Developing crawling, scraping, and parsing methods
• Reporting key metrics on data collected and share regular updates with stakeholders
• Operating internal data production processes and pipelines
• Accurately perform detailed diagnostic, quality assurance, and troubleshooting work, developing additional tooling to support these tasks as necessary

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with or willingness to learn Python
• Professional or native fluency in Russian, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, or Farsi
• Experience with web scraping tools (Python, Selenium, Scrapy, use of proxies, Captcha Solvers, etc
• Solid understanding of web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XPath, JSON, etc)
• Familiarity with basic AWS cloud services, understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Basic understanding of REST APIs
• Experience with data analysis, data visualization, and graph databases (Neo4J)
• Experience building data pipelines using orchestration tools like Airflow, Pachyderm, Luigi, etc

To the right person, this will be the perfect kind of challenge. Our mission is compelling, our product is powerful and we’re growing at a rate that makes us unstoppable. If you’re looking to be surrounded by people who will inspire you to think and challenge you to grow then look no further! Our team is made up of some of the most visionary and uncompromising individuals you will ever meet. We don’t take ourselves seriously but we’re serious about the work we do and there is absolutely no slowing us down!