Business Intelligence Analyst

About the role

Under general direction of the Director of Institutional Research, support new and existing development under the University’s Central Analytic Platform in support of institutional effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison between Institutional Research and Data Engineering/Data Science to ensure data and data models align with IR and University reporting needs
• Assist in developing new and existing live and longitudinal extract data models, verifying accuracy and consistency over time and in the context of evolving reporting requirements
• Design and develop dashboards for the University community to support data-informed decisions across campus
• Develop research methods to address requests for information from senior administration, deans, department chairs, faculty, and other stakeholders across campus
• Support Board of Trustees, Academic Program Review, KPI, CDS, and IPEDS reporting processes
• Assist in maintaining the University’s Facts & Figures
• Answer ad hoc requests, prepare institutional responses to internal and external queries related to admissions, enrollment, student outcomes, and faculty and staff recruitment and development
• Gather business requirements and participate in an agile dashboard development lifecycle
• Review dashboards for quality assurance/quality control
• Curate reports and dashboards to ensure data products uphold appropriate levels of confidentiality and privacy commensurate with data set
• Promote and ensure consistency of data and definitions across multiple data domains and reporting contexts within the University
• Monitor data integrity tests of underlying systems and platform
• Prepare and stage ad hoc or manually maintained data for inclusion into the data warehouse
• Write and maintain documentation on dashboards, models, business rules and presentation standards
• Maintain an ongoing program of professional development through membership, paper presentations, and active involvement in professional organizations

Qualifications

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Statistics, Data Science, Economics, or related discipline and 2 years of experience with data governance including collection, verification, analysis, and reporting in higher education using SQL and Tableau. Telecommuters considered.