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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:

– Principal Professional

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Displays mastery of defined skill areas/applications, principles, theories and practices. Evaluates and enhances existing practices. Recognizes emerging trends in area of expertise. Works independently on complex or strategic assignments. Directs and delegates appropriate tasks to others. Implements strategies to ensure achievement of initiatives. Prepares written and/or verbal presentations or proposals on complex issues and deliver to broad audiences. Identifies and implements innovative solutions to important, highly complex 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:

– Validates and pays invoices
– Monitors and tracks budgets and funding
– May plan and forecast budgets

Problem Solving:

– Encounters complex and novel problems
– Applies policies, practices, 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 complex or strategic assignments
– Uses existing practices as guidelines as well as working knowledge to determine specific work methods
– Carries out work activities independently, with supervisor available to resolve problems
– Reviews work of others to verify technical soundness

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and area leads across the University
– Prepares written and/or verbal presentations or proposals on complex issues and delivers to a broad variety of audiences
– Establishes and maintains networks to facilitate successful communication among units

• Comp Grade – 15
• Minimum – $109,300.00
• MidPoint – $136,600.00
• Maximum – $164,000.00

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