Business Intelligence Analyst Senior

Business Intelligence Analyst Senior

Location:

Tempe, AZ, US

Date: Sep 27, 2024

Requisition ID : 17848

Join us in building a better future for Arizona!

SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power and named one of Arizonas best employers by Forbes. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

Why Work at SRP

At SRP, we foster an inclusive work environment and believe everyone should have a fair chance to work, regardless of who they are. That’s why we value teams with diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to help SRP deliver on its mission of providing reliable, affordable and sustainable water and power.

SRPs success is rooted in our employees happiness, health, and safety. Thats why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and enhance their well-being. In addition to competitive pay and performance incentives, eligible employees can take advantage of the following benefits:

Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)

401(k) plan with employer matching

Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance

Over 200 hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)

Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance

Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)

Short and long-term disability plans

Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs

10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

Summary

The mission of the Analytics Center of Excellence is to support responsible and innovative analytics at SRP. This involves working closely with business departments in developing cutting edge analytic solutions that empower Salt River Project to deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions related to delivering power and water to customers across the Phoenix Metro area. A growing component of that process is training, educating, and consulting with business customers to proactively address challenges and enable self-service analytics within the various lines of business. You will be working in a collaborative and high-paced environment alongside other individuals with a variety of IT and non-IT backgrounds such as Database Analysts, Programmers, Architects, Business Representatives, Server Administrators, and Data Scientists. The varied perspectives and interactivity between team members help to ensure that products delivered are of high-value to SRP.

As an Analytics Developer at Salt River Project, your role is to be an expert at collaborating with our business groups and understand their business questions or problems and then to apply and draw insight from SRPs many data sources in order to solve them. Aligning with ACE’s strategy of providing and supporting consolidated analytics tools and platforms to achieve its mission, your role will be to partner with ACE data engineers and data scientists in understanding customer analytics training and education needs, then coordinating team resources to organize and provide consulting engagements, brown bag learning opportunities, and larger training sessions focused on analytics improvement with the goal of self-service analytics. Outputs from individual customer engagements will include algorithms, datasets, dashboards, reports, interactive visualizations, and tools that will be delivered to users across the enterprise. If you are a sharp coder, like to think of clever ways to solve tricky problems, know how to tell a story using data, and you love working with and teaching people, this is a great opportunity for you!

What Youll Do

• Understand your business stakeholders objectives and guiding them in a process to explore relevant data and analytical methods.

• Facilitate trainings, user groups, and consulting sessions with the objective to upskill analysts across SRP.

• Must Know how to develop metrics and KPIs to measure performance.

• Turn business requirements into technical requirements.

• Source and quickly understanding datasets for a given analysis.

• Code interactive and effective visualizations of data.

• Tell a story with the solutions that you develop that provide context to influence behavior at all levels across the enterprise.

• Learn from and sharing knowledge and skills with your teammates to increase the teams performance.

• Be an active participant in SRPs Analytics Community by contributing solutions, guidance, and leadership in order to develop and grow analytic skills throughout the enterprise.

What It Takes To Succeed

4 years of relevant experience in data visualization, business analytics, business intelligence, or data warehousing

Knowledge of SQL (HiveQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, etc.) to write complex, highly-optimized queries across large volumes of data

Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Dataiku, Snowflake or equivalent tools

Excellent oral and written communication skills, and comfort with presenting to everyone from entry-level employees to executive staff

Ability to explain complicated or technical information in a simple way to non-technical audiences

Sensitivity to clients needs and ability to develop trusted client relationships

Curiosity and passion around data, data visualization, and problem solving

Creativity to determine novel solutions for a real-world problem with quantitative data

Experience with reporting, descriptive statistics, probability, and cleansing big datasets

Willingness to question the validity and accuracy of data and assumptions

Enjoyment from collaborating with others in team environment

Eagerness and strong ability to learn in a fast-paced environment

Drive and self-reliance

Preferred Knowledge of:

Power BI Administration: Admin Portal, Managing Gateway Servers, Managing PBI Performance and leverage Power Automate to interact with PBI API.

Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Experience

Promotion to Level 2 requires a minimum of two years experience at Level 1 and demonstrated capability to perform advanced and more difficult work as determined by the supervisor. Promotion to Senior Level requires a minimum of 3 years experience at Level 2, is fully competent in all aspects of functional area of assignment and as such would be recognized as a specialist in area of assignment and may have periodic or occasional lead responsibilities.

NOTE: This is being source at a Sr. Level a minimum of 5 years of relevent experience required for the Sr. Level

Education

Completion of a Bachelors Degree from an accredited institution that prepares the employee for the assignment.

Hybrid Workplace

SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona. We are taking steps to protect the health and well-being of all team members, and by following a number of health and safety protocols, to reduce the risk of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Drug/Alcohol Policy Statement

To promote the safety and well-being of our employees, customers, and the communities we serve, SRP is committed to maintaining a drug/alcohol free work environment. Although marijuana may now be legal in Arizona, except as otherwise specified under Arizona law, SRP considers it to be an illegal drug for the purpose of our drug/alcohol policy because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. Any candidate found to be impaired during the hiring process or who has the presence of an illegal drug or unauthorized substance in their system during the pre-employment drug/alcohol test may be disqualified from further consideration in the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Salt River Project (SRP) is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other protected status under applicable federal, state or local law.

Work Authorization

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Currently, SRP does not sponsor H1B visas, OPT, or other employment-related visas.

Nearest Major Market: Phoenix