Business Intelligence Analyst
Altec · Birmingham, AL · 1 mo ago
AnalystFull-time
Responsibilities
- Serve as a dedicated analytics partner for assigned business groups, building relationships and understanding business processes, priorities, and data needs.
- Partner with business stakeholders to define requirements, metrics, KPIs, business rules, data ownership, and success criteria for analytics and data product efforts.
- Help business groups assess their current data landscape, identify gaps, and determine where governed data products or analytics solutions would create value.
- Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, data definitions, and implementation guidance for Data Engineering and related technical teams.
- Lead the design and definition of data products that can be reused across reporting, analytics, and operational decision-making processes.
- Analyze how data from multiple sources relates across business processes, including keys, joins, grain, calculations, filters, timing, and ownership.
- Document source systems, business logic, data definitions, calculations, assumptions, quality expectations, and known limitations.
- Act as the project owner for assigned data product releases by coordinating work from initial intake through production release.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Governance teams to implement curated, governed data products.
- Support and maintain Qlik applications, including troubleshooting, enhancements, operational support, and user guidance.
- Design and develop dashboards, reports, and analytics solutions when the business need is best met through a BI application.
- Help business users and embedded analysts understand and apply governed data products in reporting, analysis, and decision-making.
- Contribute to documentation, standards, and best practices that improve consistency across analytics solutions and data product work.
Technical Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of BI and analytics platforms, with Qlik experience preferred.
- Minimum 2 years of experience with SQL or equivalent query languages; ability to query, profile, validate, and troubleshoot data.
- Ability to read, interpret, and translate data transformation scripts, reporting logic, or similar analytical code into documented business rules and data product requirements.
- Strong understanding of how data is structured and related, including tables, keys, joins, grain, filters, aggregations, calculations, and data quality considerations.
- Experience working with relational databases, cloud data platforms, or enterprise data warehouses; Snowflake experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements, data definitions, data validation steps, and release criteria.
- Experience testing data for accuracy, completeness, reasonableness, and alignment to business expectations.
- Experience using project tracking or agile delivery tools such as Jira is valuable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business analytics, information systems, computer science, data analytics, or related field strongly preferred and 2 years of relevant experience.
- Alternative: Exceptional candidates with 4+ years of relevant work experience will be considered.
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Valid driver's license required.
- Experience in business intelligence, analytics, data analysis, data product delivery, or related data roles preferred.
Professional Competencies
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to understand data, business processes, and operational context.
- Curiosity about how data is created, transformed, connected, governed, and used by the business.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain data concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong business analysis skills, including requirements gathering, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder alignment.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy, data quality, clear documentation, and consistent business logic.
- Customer-service mindset with strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to support users through change.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations while adapting to changing priorities.
- Continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify better ways to deliver analytics, data products, and business value.
Additional Information
- Travel requirement: 0-25%.
- May require occasional work outside standard business hours.
- Position level may be adjusted based on candidate qualifications.
- Role requires maintaining strict confidentiality of company information.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Program
- Retirement 401(k) Traditional or Roth Program Options with Company Match
- Vacation and Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Short Term and Long Term Disability Leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition Assistance Program