Data and AI Reporting Analyst

Data and AI Reporting Analyst

Location:

Syracuse, NY

This position provides data and reporting support to the schools, colleges, and academic leadership within the One IT organization. It emphasizes the responsible use of AI tools to make institutional data more accessible and useful. The analyst coordinates across One IT Directors, relevant university units, and institutional stakeholders to identify, catalogue, and integrate institutional data, including student, enrollment, course, and program information.

• Coordinate One IT Directors across schools and colleges to identify and catalogue institutional data and bring it into a shared data environment.
• Set shared timelines and expectations, track progress, and remove obstacles with support from the Assistant Vice President for Academic Technology Services.
• Work with each school’s One IT Director to access, document, and consume data, establishing shared data definitions for consistency and reusability.
• Partner with the ITS Data and AI team on underlying platforms and infrastructure, including Microsoft Fabric.
• Use AI tools such as Claude and Copilot to analyze institutional data, generate reports, and synthesize findings for Deans and senior leaders.
• Develop prompts and workflows that produce accurate, well‑structured outputs suited to higher education settings.
• Build dashboards and visualizations and translate findings for non‑technical audiences so leaders can act on the information.

• Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience, with 3+ years of experience working with data in an analytical, reporting, or institutional research capacity.
• Required:
  
  Experience coordinating work across teams or departments.
• Required:
  
  Familiarity with AI tools and interest in applying them to data and reporting work.
• Preferred:
  Experience in a higher education setting.
• Preferred:
  Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Preferred:
  Working knowledge of SQL and relational data.
• Preferred:
  Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric or Azure.
• Preferred:
  Experience helping to establish data definitions or support data governance.

• Comfort working with data from multiple sources, including extracting, compiling, and organizing it for analysis.
• Familiarity with AI tools and willingness to use them to speed up analysis and reporting.
• Ability to coordinate work across multiple teams and keep an effort on track without direct authority.
• Ability to explain data and findings in plain language for non‑technical audiences.
• Comfort learning new tools and platforms as the work evolves.
• Interest in building data literacy and helping others use data well.

Syracuse University is an equal‑opportunity institution. The University prohibits discrimination and harassment based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. This nondiscrimination policy covers admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs, services, and activities.