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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 Supervisor

Base Description:

– Supervises direct reports, but primarily completes activities, tasks, and/or projects of a functional nature.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge to perform own work; spends majority of time on tasks related to own job responsibilities. May demonstrate subject matter expertise. Demonstrates intermediate to advanced planning, organizing, directing, and facilitating skills. Demonstrates the ability to coach assigned employees. Assigns and reviews completed work to verify accuracy, quality, and adherence to professional standards. Trains, coaches, mentors, and motivates staff. Anticipates potential problems, issues, and opportunities; researches and recommends solutions within defined policies. May develop creative recommendations for solving problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Typically oversees at least 2 full–time direct reports or equivalent team of part–time and/or student workers (for Professional track, performs work at the Senior Professional level or higher)

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– May validate and pay invoices
– Monitors and tracks budgets for specific area and/or grant(s)
– May assist in planning and forecasting budgets

Problem Solving:

– Encounters moderately complex problems
– Applies general precedents and practices and specialized knowledge and skills to resolve problems
– Understands benefits, limitations and impact of potential solutions
– Anticipates potential problems and recommends possible solutions within general guidelines

Independence of Action:

– Works independently on moderately complex work assignments, reviews progress, and evaluates results
– Organizes work of direct reports and sets team priorities
– Reviews the work of others to verify accuracy, quality, and adherence to professional standards

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
– Collaborates closely with team members; may interact with other staff outside of area
– Utilizes a communication style that is appropriate for a given situation
– Interprets and communicates information, ideas and instructions clearly, accurately and persuasively both verbally and in written materials intended for distribution

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