Senior Data Analyst - Residential Solar

Position Summary

Responsible for defining, implementing, and supporting advanced analytics solutions and capabilities. Provides expertise in the integration, analysis, and wrangling of data to solve business problems. Manipulates and analyzes complex datasets with a variety of tools and communicates results clearly and concisely to provide insight to multiple audiences.

• Data Wrangling/Exploration:
  Follow consistent practices to ensure data integrity and deal with imperfections in data. Effectively process structured data; proficiently integrate data sets from various sources; confidently draw conclusions from data. Collaborate with business stakeholders as needed to ensure solid data understanding and proper data transformation; work cross‑functionally with development and engineering teams. Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends, patterns, actionable insights.
• Programming:
  Develop efficient and high‑quality code; follow a solid validation process to ensure consistency and minimize errors; adhere to version control standards. Maintain skills through continuing education; seamlessly transition between languages to apply the right approach to the right problem.
• Work Management:
  Manages multiple tasks, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and shifting priorities. Communicates status and estimates clearly and timely to management and team members.
• Data Visualization:
  Create meaningful data visualizations to communicate results and highlight business impact. Utilize various visualization techniques and delivery methods that are audience‑appropriate (interactive, statistical, exploratory).
• Communication:
  Effectively communicate technical information to numerous audiences (senior management, client community, peers, and junior associates); develop relationships with individuals inside and outside of IT. Address challenges to analytic processes and influence others to change their approach; work collectively to implement new tools or techniques. Gain support from stakeholders for analytic solutions.
• Continuing
  
  Education:
  
  Take a proactive approach to understanding industry and organization‑specific business issues. Participate in structured and self‑study training courses. Continually improve technical skills and learn new data sources.

• Bachelor's degree in MIS, CIS, Statistics, Analytics, or a related IT degree or sufficient experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an analytics environment.
• Expertise in SQL.
• Comfortable working with large, complex data sets—drawing conclusions and proposing recommendations.
• Proven ability to effectively partner, collaborate, and communicate with technical and non‑technical colleagues in various business functions at all levels.
• Hands‑on experience constructing visual analytics.
• Working knowledge of an analytics data warehouse/​data lakehouse and big data platform.
• Familiarity with fundamentals of statistics, probability, and data pipelines.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to wrangle data.
• Comfortable working with structured and unstructured data.

• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience with Power BI.
• Experience with data pipelines.

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy‑related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy, we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.