Senior Business Intelligence Architect; Enterprise Services Specialist IV

Cookeville, TN, United States

Job Identification: 25962

Posting Date: 08/19/2026, 08:19 PM

Grade: 16

The overall purpose of this job is to provide strategic and technical expertise for the University’s enterprise reporting, analytics, and data architecture environment. The Senior Business Intelligence Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving the University’s business intelligence ecosystem to ensure institutional data is accurate, secure, accessible, and actionable for decision-making. This position serves as the University’s lead architect for enterprise analytics solutions, supporting applications including but not limited to Banner, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Ellucian Insights, Power BI, and other institutional reporting platforms while promoting data governance, reporting standards, and analytics modernization initiatives across the campus community.

Tennessee Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Essential Functions:

• Design, maintain, and evolve the University’s enterprise analytics architecture supporting Banner, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Ellucian Insights, Power BI, and other institutional systems.
• Develop and maintain enterprise data models, semantic layers, data lakes, reporting frameworks, and integration strategies that support institutional reporting and analytics.
• Define and maintain enterprise data standards, metadata management practices, business definitions, and governance processes to ensure consistency and integrity across reporting environments.
• Collaborate with database administrators, application administrators, integration developers, and functional stakeholders to optimize enterprise data structures and reporting solutions.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for enterprise data models, reporting definitions, metadata, business rules, data lineage, and analytics standards, including templates and other reusable knowledge assets.
• Evaluate and recommend architectural approaches and emerging technologies that support the University’s long-term analytics and reporting strategy.

• Lead enterprise reporting, dashboard, and business intelligence initiatives that support institutional planning, operational effectiveness, and data-informed decision-making.
• Partner with campus stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate reporting and analytics needs into scalable solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise dashboards, scorecards, reports, data
• visualizations, and self-service analytics solutions.
• Develop executive-level reporting that supports strategic planning, budgeting, enrollment management, workforce planning, student success, compliance, and institutional effectiveness initiatives.
• Establish reporting standards, visualization best practices, and data presentation guidelines to ensure consistency and usability across reporting environments.
• Identify opportunities to improve organizational decision-making through advanced analytics, automation, and enhanced access to trusted institutional data.
• Promote self-service reporting capabilities while ensuring alignment with institutional governance, security, and data quality standards.
• Provide technical support, consultation, training, and guidance to business users in the effective use of reporting and analytics tools.

• Establish and maintain enterprise data governance, data quality, metadata management, privacy, and reporting standards across institutional reporting and analytics platforms.
• Design and maintain enterprise reporting security architecture, including role-based access controls, row-level security, data classification standards, and protection of sensitive student,…