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Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Specialists leverage business intelligence technologies to transform data into business insights; support the strategic design and maintenance of business intelligence applications; identify, research, and resolve technical problems; ensure that the use of business intelligence tools enhance business decision making capabilities.

• Collaborate with customers, data stewards, and business stakeholders to gather project requirements and intended deliverables
• Design business intelligence solutions to facilitate data gathering, storage, and retrieval
• Collect, evaluate, analyze, interpret, and translate data in order to provide actionable insights and recommendations related to business decisions, performance, and strategic planning
• Create visualizations using business intelligence and analytic platforms; supplement visualizations with narratives detailing observations and findings
• Maintain existing business intelligence capabilities through support functions and in-depth testing; collaborate with end users, data teams, and subject matter experts to ensure systems function properly
• Design, develop, test, verify, implement dashboards; maintain documentation within business intelligence systems including advanced logic and formulas, stored procedures, queries, and custom code
• Perform data modeling, statistical analysis, and mining techniques to explore and analyze data
• Consult users in the effective use of business intelligence tools to enhance business decision-making capability
• Build and implement solutions to support data ingestion, processing, and visualization of metrics; design business intelligence systems including integration with databases and data warehouses
• Stay abreast of business intelligence products/tools, future features, and of business strategies and direction
• May supervise staff members, including hiring, development, and performance management

Level:

– Intermediate Professional

Base Description:

– Completes activities, tasks, and/or projects of a functional nature.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates ability to perform intermediate tasks in defined skill areas. Demonstrates intermediate knowledge of internal procedures. Works under general supervision, performing assignments that may be varied and sometimes difficult. Supports team decisions and follows through with team responsibilities. Interprets and communicates information clearly and accurately. Demonstrates intermediate problem–solving skills.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– May serve as direct supervisor for part–time, student, and/or temporary workers or volunteers

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– May validate and pay invoices

Problem Solving:

– Encounters generally routine problems; occasionally faces more complex and/or varied problems
– Typically follows recommended course of action and procedures to resolve problems
– Applies knowledge of larger unit goals, priorities, and related procedures in determining course of action

Independence of Action:

– Work is generally monitored by supervisor
– Detailed instructions and procedures are generally provided
– Uses available guidelines to make appropriate adaptations to routine situations and refers other situations to supervisor

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates internally within working unit and/or the University
– May communicate with external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members
– Interprets and communicates information, ideas and instructions clearly and accurately both verbally and in written materials intended for distribution

• Comp Grade – 10
• Minimum – $61,800.00
• MidPoint – $75,700.00
• Maximum – $89,600.00