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Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) Specialists play a critical role in transforming complex data into actionable insights that inform strategic decision-making and drive business performance; leverage advanced BI technologies to design, develop, and maintain scalable business intelligence solutions, ensuring that data is accessible, accurate, and aligned with the university's objectives; collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify analytical needs, resolve technical challenges, and deliver intuitive visualizations and dashboards.

• Leverage advanced business intelligence (BI) technologies and methodologies to transform complex data sets into strategic and actionable business insights that support organizational growth, innovation, and data-driven decision making
• Lead the strategic design, architecture, and continuous enhancement of scalable BI systems and solutions that support enterprise-wide data gathering, storage, and analytics
• Engage with cross-functional stakeholders to identify strategic objectives, gather business requirements, and define data-driven outcomes
• Conduct end-to-end data analysis using statistical, predictive, and mining techniques to uncover trends, patterns, and opportunities; translate findings into recommendations related to business decisions, performance, and strategic planning
• Design and deliver compelling data visualizations and dashboards, supplementing them with high-level narratives to contextualize findings and inform key strategic decisions
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of BI applications through rigorous testing, troubleshooting, and optimization; work closely with technical teams to resolve system issues and enhance capabilities
• Maintain documentation within BI systems including advanced logic and formulas, stored procedures, queries, and custom scripts
• Serve as a trusted adviser to users, providing consultation, training, and support in the effective use of BI tools to elevate organizational data literacy and decision-making maturity
• Build and optimize pipelines and data models that support real-time analytics, integration with data warehouses, and efficient data consumption across platforms
• Monitor emerging BI technologies, tools, and trends; assess their applicability to the university's strategic direction and guide the adoption of future-ready BI solutions
• 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

• Business reporting
• Customer Service
• Data Analysis
• Data Collection
• Data mining
• Data visualization
• Database management
• Predictive modeling
• Research methods
• Software design
• Statistical thinking