Data & Analytics Enablement Analyst- Center of Excellence Lead

Data & Analytics Enablement Analyst | Center of Excellence Lead

The Data & Analytics Enablement Analyst | Center of Excellence Lead is responsible for empowering a diverse community of data and analytics professionals – including data scientists, analysts, engineers, specialists, and platform owners – through developing best practices, curating technical resources, elevating expertise, supporting knowledge sharing and technical skill development, and driving consistency in analytics capabilities and workflows. This role sits within a broader data and analytics enablement team of professionals with expertise in analytics, instruction, program management, and communication who would be primary partners;

the Center of Excellence Lead will serve as the primary technical contributor within the team.

The ideal candidate combines practitioner experience working within a complex data ecosystem with a passion for simplifying complexity, elevating practitioner capability, and driving consistent, high‑quality data practices across the enterprise.

• Partner with teams to understand the organization’s data architecture, governance frameworks, data platforms, and tools utilized by data and analytics practitioners across the enterprise.
• Compare existing technical workflows across practitioner teams to internal and industry best practices to surface inefficiencies, capability gaps, and technical training opportunities.
• Identify practitioner gaps or friction points in adopting enterprise standards, tools, and workflows and propose solutions to facilitate adoption.
• Monitor data and analytics platforms for user‑reported or system‑detected issues, and partner with engineering teams to resolve access, performance, or workflow blockers.

• Lead in the planning of in‑person, virtual, and recorded workshops and training for practitioners across a wide geographic footprint. Responsibilities include agenda development, access provisioning, presenter selection, and event facilitation.
• Curate enablement resource assets to support practitioner needs, such as sample code, onboarding guides, instructional videos, and other self‑service resources.
• Develop and maintain a directory of data assets including owners, recommended use cases, distribution lists, office hours, and links to other resources.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure enablement assets and resources curated by partnering teams align with current standards, business priorities, and enterprise best practices.

• Lead the development and execution of technical challenges (ex: datathons and hackathons). Tasks include task management; collaborating with stakeholders; curating challenge questions, datasets, and rubrics; and facilitating challenge events.
• Collaborate with people managers and learning teams to inform technical skill development strategies, including badges (Tableau, SQL, Python, et cetera) to ensure skill needs are met.
• Partner with the data and analytics early career program to support expedited onboarding of talent. Identify pain points and advocate for scalable onboarding solutions.

• Contribute to the development of an intuitive, well‑organized resource repository via SharePoint that helps practitioners easily access resources to support their workflows.
• Research compatible features to aid practitioners in locating materials. Partner with teams in feature development – for example semantic search, chatbot, tagging, keyword mapping.
• Partner with intranet management colleagues to provide key words to ensure the resource repository is discoverable by colleagues searching for resources via the intranet.
• Manage an annual process to update data and analytics acronyms to the enterprise repository.

• Partner with team members to define and track performance metrics aimed at overall community engagement, adoption of best practices and tooling, and skill development.
• Use insights from metrics and practitioner feedback to refine enablement…