Business Intelligence Analyst

Under general direction of the Director of Institutional Research, support new and existing development under the University’s Central Analytic Platform in support of institutional effectiveness.

Duties include serving as liaison between Institutional Research and Data Engineering/Data Science to ensure data and data models align with IR and University reporting needs; assisting in developing new and existing live and longitudinal extract data models, verifying accuracy and consistency over time and in the context of evolving reporting requirements;

Designing and developing dashboards for the University community to support data-informed decisions across campus; developing research methods to address requests for information from senior administration, deans, department chairs, faculty, and other stakeholders across campus; supporting Board of Trustees, Academic Program Review, KPI, CDS, and IPEDS reporting processes;

Assisting in maintaining the University’s Facts & Figures; answering ad hoc requests, preparing institutional responses to internal and external queries related to admissions, enrollment, student outcomes, and faculty and staff recruitment and development; gathering business requirements and participating in an agile dashboard development lifecycle;

Reviewing dashboards for quality assurance/quality control; curating reports and dashboards to ensure data products uphold appropriate levels of confidentiality and privacy commensurate with data set; promoting and ensuring consistency of data and definitions across multiple data domains and reporting contexts within the University; monitoring data integrity tests of underlying systems and platform; preparing and staging ad hoc or manually maintained data for inclusion into the data warehouse;

writing and maintaining documentation on dashboards, models, business rules and presentation standards; maintaining an ongoing program of professional development through membership, paper presentations, and active involvement in professional organizations.

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Statistics, Data Science, Economics, or related discipline and 2 years of experience with data governance including collection, verification, analysis, and reporting in higher education using SQL and Tableau. Telecommuters considered.