Data/ML/AITable-stakes
Data Analyst
Also written as Business Analyst (data), BI Analyst
Answers business questions from existing data — building reports, dashboards and analyses. Distinct from a Data Scientist (who models and predicts) and a Data Engineer (who builds the pipelines).
Think of it like
Like a journalist working from records that already exist: the skill is asking the right question and not misreading the answer, not gathering the archive.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Produces the chart that was requested.
Senior sounds like
Can describe a time the requested analysis was the wrong question, and what they produced instead.
Ask them
“Tell me about an analysis where the answer changed what someone decided. What did they do differently?”