Business Intelligence Lead

Position Summary

Join Penn Foster Group as we build the future of education technology. We are embarking on an exciting enterprise platform modernization journey—transforming our data, analytics, and technology ecosystem to leverage modern cloud platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), and next-generation Business Intelligence capabilities. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal leadership role in shaping the future of how data drives decisions across our organization.

As our Business Intelligence Lead, you will define the vision, architecture, and strategy for enterprise Business Intelligence and self-service analytics while helping modernize our analytics platform through Power BI, Tableau, SAP Business Objects, Databricks, and modern cloud technologies. You will establish the governance, security, engineering practices, and scalable architecture that will support the next generation of analytics and AI-enabled decision making.

This role is more than leading Business Intelligence—it is about building a data-driven culture. You will champion enterprise self-service analytics, empower business users with trusted and governed data, and serve as Penn Foster Group's thought leader for Business Intelligence, analytics innovation, and data strategy. A key measure of success will be increasing enterprise adoption of self-service analytics while significantly reducing manual and ad hoc reporting requests.

Working closely with executive leadership, Product Management, Data Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and business stakeholders, you will shape Penn Foster Group's technology vision while mentoring and developing the next generation of Business Intelligence professionals.

• Lead Penn Foster Group's transformation to a self-service analytics organization.
• Shape the future architecture of our modern data, analytics, and AI platform.
• Influence enterprise technology strategy and Business Intelligence standards.
• Build and mentor a growing Business Intelligence team.
• Work with modern technologies including Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD, and cloud analytics platforms.
• Deliver measurable business impact by increasing data literacy, enabling self-service analytics, and accelerating data-driven decision making across the enterprise.

• Lead the enterprise Business Intelligence strategy, architecture, and roadmap with a focus on expanding self-service analytics capabilities.
• Champion adoption of self-service analytics by establishing governance, certified datasets, reusable semantic models, and enterprise reporting standards.
• Develop and execute an enterprise adoption strategy that empowers business users to independently access trusted data and insights while reducing reliance on manual reporting and ad hoc requests.
• Serve as Penn Foster Group's Business Intelligence thought leader by evaluating emerging technologies, AI capabilities, and industry best practices.
• Establish KPIs that measure self-service adoption, platform utilization, analytics maturity, and business value.

• Architect and implement enterprise Business Intelligence solutions using Power BI, Tableau, SAP Business Objects, and Databricks.
• Design scalable semantic models, enterprise data models, and governed reporting solutions supporting self-service analytics.
• Define enterprise standards for architecture, security, governance, visualization, and performance optimization.
• Serve as the Business Intelligence subject matter expert for the organization’s Databricks Lakehouse platform, partnering with Data Engineering to deliver modern analytics solutions.
• Design and…