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About the Role
As a Senior Data Analyst at WGU, you will be a key analytics partner, transforming complex data into actionable insights to influence strategy, enhance operations, and support university-wide initiatives. This role is perfect for a seasoned analytics professional skilled in solving business challenges, creating robust reporting solutions, and empowering stakeholders with data-driven decisions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders, faculty, and cross-functional teams to understand business needs, translate user stories into technical requirements, and deliver analytics solutions that drive action.
- Answer complex business questions by leveraging data from multiple domains and identifying the most appropriate data sources to support analysis, forecasting, research, and experimentation.
- Design, develop, maintain, and optimize dashboards, reports, and business intelligence solutions that provide meaningful insights to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support the development of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and scalable analytics solutions.
- Analyze and investigate complex data issues, improving the accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability of university data assets.
- Communicate findings through compelling data storytelling, visualizations, presentations, and recommendations that influence decision-making.
- Contribute to data governance, documentation, data modeling, and the continuous improvement of analytics tools, standards, and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
- 5 years of related experience in Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Statistics, Decision Intelligence, Research, Learning Science, or Behavioral/Cognitive Psychology.
- Advanced SQL proficiency, including experience with complex queries, subqueries, joins, aggregations, common table expressions (CTEs), window functions, performance tuning, views, and data modification statements.
- Proficiency in Python or R, with the ability to automate, transform, analyze, and manage data workflows.
- Strong experience building, managing, and maintaining business intelligence solutions, dashboards, and reporting environments.
- Experience translating analytical findings into business recommendations and guiding stakeholders through strategic decisions and improvement opportunities.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and drive projects forward with a high degree of ownership and accountability.
- An equivalent combination of training, experience, credentials, or accomplishments demonstrating the ability to perform the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements.
Skills
- Advanced SQL
- Python
- R
- Business Intelligence solutions
- Dashboards
- Reporting environments
- Data storytelling
- Data visualizations
- Presentations
- Tableau
- Power BI
Location
- SLC, Utah office
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-office
- Regular
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5 years of related experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $91,000.00 - $136,400.00
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Telehealth
- Mental healthcare
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Basic and voluntary life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- Legal and identity theft coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Wellbeing program
- Discounted WGU tuition
- Flexible paid time off
- Flexible paid sick time
- 11 paid holidays
- Other paid leaves
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave
About the Company
- Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals.
- The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders.
- Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.