Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Utilize business knowledge to understand business needs and provide technical analytics and solutions to meet these needs
- Conduct moderate to complex data profiling and analysis to evaluate data sources to determine the best source for business information
- Acquiring, transforming and translating data into actionable dashboards, reports, algorithms or datasets that has a substantial impact on the functional area of support
- Performing moderate to complex statistical analysis and presenting findings to guide, influence and advise leadership, including at times senior leaders
- Collaborate with data engineers to perform data validation and testing activities as appropriate
- Develop and build upon existing expertise knowledge of the insurance industry, company and competitor landscape
- Develop and build upon existing expertise of data stored in company databases, as well as emerging trends in business intelligence technologies
- Works directly with internal customers to refine requirements and validate output to ensure solutions will meet expectations
- Provide mentoring, coaching and developmental support to lower-level BI Analysts
Job Specifications
- Bachelors Degree preferred, and/or equivalent experience
- 6+ years experience with demonstrated success at a BI Analyst II level or comparable data analytics related field
- Excellent knowledge of analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python)
- Excellent knowledge of modern BI toolsets (Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent)
- In-depth understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
- Adept in extracting and leveraging data out of data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Ability to embrace change, adapt to the unexpected, and focus energies, people, and solutions on practical and positive results
- Demonstrated problem solving skills
- Strong communications skills with the ability to influence various levels of leaders using data and logic
- Strong and proven ability to effectively mentor, develop and coach others
- Aptitude and drive to learn new technologies and analysis techniques
- Is comfortable taking responsibility for the design & implementation of technical solutions
- Strong team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization.