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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:

– Senior Professional

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of a particular field. Works independently on moderately complex work assignments under limited oversight, reviews progress, and evaluates results. Monitors work and projects ensuring timeliness, quality, and efficiency. Identifies and mobilizes resources to achieve outcomes. Trains others and reviews progress with management. Presents ideas, concepts, and instructions in a clear and persuasive manner. Develops new techniques, concepts, and approaches and applies them to moderately complex and strategic and/or operational issues.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Indirect supervisor for other full–time employees
– May serve as direct supervisor for part–time, student, and/or temporary workers, volunteers, or a full–time employee

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– May validate and pay invoices
– Monitors and tracks budgets and funding

Problem Solving:

– Encounters moderately complex problems
– Applies specialized knowledge and skills to resolve problems
– Understands benefits, limitations, and impact of potential solutions

Independence of Action:

– Works independently on moderately complex work assignments, reviews progress, and evaluates results
– May set priorities and organize work within general guidelines established by supervisor
– May review the work of others to verify accuracy and conformance to required procedures and special instructions

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates internally within working unit and the University
– Communicates with external audiences for scheduling/coordination
– May communicate with external audiences for business purposes
– Coaches others in using appropriate strategies for resolving conflict; negotiating reasonable compromises; and proposing and evaluating possible solutions
– Give candid and constructive feedback to others to influence and persuade managers and employees to accept and implement findings and recommendations

• Comp Grade – 13
• Minimum – $86,300.00
• MidPoint – $107,900.00
• Maximum – $129,500.00