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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:

– 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