Business Intelligence Analyst

About the role

Infrastructure Data, Reporting & Metrics (IDRM) serves as the Infrastructure Services (IS) organization's centralized team for trusted data, reporting, metrics, and analytics. IDRM partners with infrastructure leaders, platform teams, and operational stakeholders to deliver consistent reporting, improve data quality, automate manual data collection processes, and provide actionable insights that support business and operational decision-making. The Business Intelligence Analyst will directly support and maintain a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Infrastructure Security and Compliance (ISAC) Team and partner with ISAC leadership, Cyber Security, Infrastructure Services teams, data owners, Infrastructure Data & Reporting Management, and other stakeholders to help define reporting requirements, integrate reporting sources, and improve data quality in alignment with Infrastructure Services reporting standards. This individual will work closely with data owners, operational leaders, and technical teams to transform complex infrastructure data into meaningful insights through Power BI and related analytics tools. The ideal candidate combines advanced Power BI expertise with strong analytical skills, an understanding of operational or technology-focused environments, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable reporting solutions. This position falls under the company’s Insider Threat Program and will have access to, and control over sensitive data, systems or assets. Enhanced personnel screening, which includes a background review, drug screen and psychological assessment, will be required if you are selected for this position.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions supporting the Infrastructure Services organization and processes.
• Deliver executive-level, operational, asset, risk, and performance reporting.
• Build scalable data models and semantic layers that support consistent reporting across multiple stakeholders.
• Develop KPI and metric reporting that tells the Infrastructure Services value story.
• Transform large, complex data sets into meaningful and actionable insights.
• Partner with infrastructure leaders and operational teams to understand reporting requirements and business objectives.
• Consult with stakeholders to define reporting solutions, performance metrics, and visualization approaches.
• Present findings and recommendations to leadership audiences.
• Assist with identifying data quality issues and inconsistencies across reporting sources.
• Partner with Data Architecture and Data Governance resources to improve data accuracy and reporting standards.
• Advocate for trusted data sources and reporting best practices.
• Reduce manual reporting processes through automation and process improvements.
• Support integration of new data sources into reporting solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting efficiency and scalability.
• Contribute to the Infrastructure Services Reporting Center of Excellence.
• Assist with reporting standards, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor other analysts on reporting best practices and Power BI capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, or data analysis.
• 3+ years of advanced Power BI development experience.
• Expertise in Power BI, DAX, Power Query & QueryM language, Data Modeling, SQL, Excel.
• Experience working with large, complex data sets from multiple sources.
• Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into reporting solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to understand the needs of different user groups and switch between executive and more detailed technical views.
• Experience presenting analytics and reporting results to leadership audiences.
• Proficiency in applying AI techniques for predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and data-driven decision-making.
• Knowledge of AI-driven data integration and data cleansing tools to automate and optimize data management tasks.
• Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) for unstructured data analysis and information extraction.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting Infrastructure Services, Asset Management, Vulnerability and Patching activities, Identity Management, Service Management, IT Operations.
• Experience with Power Automate, Power Apps, PowerFx, and other Power Platform related apps and features.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, DataBricks, Azure Data Services.
• Experience with Python, API-based integrations.
• Experience with Kibana, Grafana, Splunk.
• Familiarity with CMDB data, Asset lifecycle management.
• Experience with Helix, ServiceNow, or similar operational platforms.
• Experience developing automated reporting solutions.
• Experience delivering reporting and analytics solutions through a structured lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing and validation, deployment, and ongoing support and enhancement.

Benefits

Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards