Senior Data Analyst

Celebrated as one of Minnesota’s Top Workplaces! Knutson Construction is accepting applications for a Senior Data Analyst to join our team in Minneapolis, MN.

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Knutson Construction is seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Analyst to join our Data & Analytics team. This role plays a key part in advancing Knutson's vision of becoming a data-driven organization by delivering trusted, governed, and business-ready data products that enable better decision-making, operational excellence, self-service analytics, and emerging AI capabilities. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing Data & Analytics team at an early stage and help build the function from the ground up.

As the second member of the team, the Senior Data Analyst will partner closely with the Data & Analytics Manager and play a critical role in defining how analytics are delivered across the organization. The environment is fast-paced, hands-on, and highly collaborative, making it ideal for someone who enjoys creating structure, solving complex problems, and influencing the future direction of modern analytics practice.

• Works with stakeholders from across the company to understand business needs and translate them to actionable data products, increase adoption of analytics solutions and embed data-driven decision making into business processes.
• Designs, builds, and maintains certified business data products that support reporting, Databricks AI/BI, Genie, self-service analytics, and future AI initiatives.
• Manages change to data assets using Git Hub, including branching, pull requests, peer review, and promotion from development through production.
• Builds and curates the data models and metric views that support accurate, trustworthy results from Databricks AI/BI tools, working from metric definitions established by the analytics lead.
• Contributes to enterprise data governance efforts by supporting data quality standards, business definitions, data stewardship practices, metric consistency, and trusted data product development.
• Helps maintain trusted and governed data products aligned with established data ownership, security, and access control standards.
• Assists in evaluating and improving the quality, accuracy, and user experience of AI-powered analytics and natural-language query solutions.
• Monitors existing data products for accuracy and continued relevance and retires or rebuilds them as business needs change.
• Supports and enables our data champions and super users through training, working sessions, and a feedback loop for improving answer quality as AI/BI adoption expands company wide.
• Shapes and builds upstream datasets in bronze and silver layers as needed to support reporting work.
• Translates vague or competing business requests into clear requirements and delivers products that get used.
• Identifies opportunities to improve business processes through analytics, automation, reusable data products, and intelligent self-service capabilities.
• Be a leader in Knutson’s Zero…