Applications & Data Analytics Specialist - Sr. Lead

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Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Company: Entergy

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Job Title:

Data Analytics Spec, Sr Ld

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

This role can be filled as a Applications & Data Analyst Specialist - Sr. Lead level.

Job Summary / Purpose

The Applications & Data Analytics Specialist provides enterprise level analytical, reporting, application, and data engineering support to enable effective crisis readiness and response from cyber-attack, storm, wildfire, etc. and operational decision making. The role leads the architecture and development of dashboards, metrics, and analytics systems; manages the applications and dataflows that support them; and integrates multi‑platform data sources to deliver reliable, actionable insights .

Focus: Foundational development and support

Characteristics:

• Supports basic dashboard and metric development, Power BI report updates, and platform-based query edits under supervision.
• Assists with data validation, documentation, and application administration.
• Learns Crisis Readiness & Response and Storm Response Operations workflows; contributes to metric troubleshooting and data integrity support.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Build and maintain enterprise Power BI semantic models, dataflows, and shared datasets to support scalable, reusable analytics solutions.
• Develop platform based (e.g. SQL) data extractions, transformations, stored procedures, and analytics models from multiple systems .
• Develop documentation, training, and governance processes to ensure stable, secure application operation.
• Integrate and manage data across internal platforms (APIs, operational systems, databases, storm systems, finance systems).

Typical Qualifications

Specialist:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 1+ years relevant experience.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years progressively revelant experience.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain standardized enterprise and departmental dashboards, metrics, and scorecards supporting executive decision making for crisis readiness and response, storm preparedness and response, operational performance, and cost forecasting.
• Govern KPI definitions, metric logic, and visual frameworks to ensure consistency and reliability across Crisis Readiness & Response analytics.
• Partner with stakeholders to define new metrics, refresh cycles, and decision support visualization requirements.
• Build and maintain enterprise Power BI semantic models, dataflows, and shared datasets to support scalable, reusable analytics solutions.
• Implement dashboard performance optimization, governance controls, data security, workspace management, and lifecycle standards.
• Oversee Power BI environment health, including dataset refreshes, gateway troubleshooting, and workspace access.
• Develop platform based (e.g. SQL) data extractions, transformations, stored procedures, and analytics models from multiple systems.
• Implement validation routines, performance tuning, and data quality frameworks to ensure metric accuracy and dashboard reliability.
• Maintain documentation for metric logic, data lineage, and transformation rules.

Application Oversight & Management

• Serve as technical steward for analytics, reporting, and metric producing applications, including access controls, configuration, performance monitoring, and change management.
• Coordinate with IT and vendors to resolve issues, implement enhancements, and maintain application readiness during storm activations.
• Develop documentation, training, and governance processes to ensure stable, secure application operation.

Systems Integration & Data Management

• Integrate and manage data across internal platforms (APIs, operational systems, databases, storm systems, finance systems).
• Partner with SMEs to eliminate data inconsistencies, troubleshoot cross-system‑ issues, and improve metric accuracy.
• Ensure data reliability for real-time and near real‑time dashboards used during Crisis Readiness and Response events.

Storm & Weather Related‑Cost Forecasting

• Utilize cross model data to produce cost forecasts, scenario analyses, and readiness…