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Analytics Specialist II

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Position type: Staff Full Time
Campus: UMass President's Office
Campus Location: South St Shrewsbury
Department: UITS-Enterprise Data &Analytic
Categories: Information Technology
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Job Summary:

The University IT Services (UITS) Enterprise Data and Analytics (EDA) team is responsible for developing and managing shared services in the area of data and analytics for the entire UMass university system.  These include:

  • Data services such as the Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and related data integrations
  • Reporting, visualizations, and analytics tools for self-service use by university personnel
  • Data analysis and development services for various business lines including development of interactive dashboards and analytics

The Analytics Specialist II is a key contributor in the EDA team, providing expertise in data analysis, working with business users and translating business requirements into data solutions, facilitating self-service data development, and development and maintenance of compelling data visualizations and analysis products. 

Essential Functions:

Responsibilities and duties will include:

  • Gathering business requirements and translating those into data specifications
  • Growing data subject matter expertise
  • Providing input to data engineers to develop logical data models optimized for analysis and self-service
  • Design, development, and optimization of data visualizations and interactive dashboards
  • Assisting in self-service development by campus users

Other Functions:

Additional responsibilities could also include (depending on individual’s experience and interest):

  • Development of metadata layer for reporting tools
  • Development of advanced analytics content such as AI and Machine Learning content

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education, Experience):

  • Bachelor’s Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Statistics, or business-related field
  • Demonstrated data visualization and interactive dashboard design skills
  • 3+ years in business analysis or technical roles with the demonstrated concentration in delivering data related solutions
  • Experience with at least one Data Analysis tool such as Oracle Business Intelligence and Tableau
  • Understanding of SQL
  • Strong communications skills both written and oral
  • Solid interpersonal skills, with ability to work well with people of all levels in both technical and business settings

Preferred Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education, Experience):

  • User Interface Design skills and training highly desirable
  • OBIEE, OAC, and/or Tableau experience highly desirable
  • Higher education data experience highly desirable
  • Finance, HR, Student Administration, Advancement or other data experience in Higher Education highly desirable
  • R, Python or other reporting, visualization, and analytics tool experience
  • Data Science training

Working Conditions:

Office environment with options for remote work and potential for small amounts of travel to specific UMass campuses.

Additional Details:

Salary commensurate with experience up to $95,000.00

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