Sr. D&T Analyst – Business Intelligence

General Mills; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

General Mills seeks a senior BI and analytics leader to advance modern BI and AI capabilities. You will design, build, and scale governed analytics solutions across functions, partnering with business, product, and tech teams to enable reporting, visualization, NLQ, and AI-driven insights.

You will drive end-to-end delivery, establish data governance, and ensure accuracy and adoption of analytics outputs, with emphasis on scalable star-schema models and robust testing.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of total experience in BI and analytics solutions for business stakeholders.
• Expert-level skills in Tableau, SQL, Google Looker, Python, and BigQuery.
• Demonstrated experience building governed analytics products, semantic models, and scalable reporting solutions.
• Experience with AI for BI use cases such as natural language query, conversational analytics, or AI-driven summarization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, automate, and launch BI, conversational analytics, and AI-driven summarization solutions using Tableau, Looker, BigQuery, and related tools.
• Build technical architectures, semantic models, prototypes, and governed data experiences for trusted NLQ and dashboard summarization.
• Lead design, code, model, and process reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and AI governance.
• Drive end-to-end delivery across discovery, estimation, solution design, development, UAT, deployment, and post-go-live monitoring.

Skills

Tableau

SQL

Looker

Python

BigQuery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, CS, IS, Data Science, or related field

Tools

Tableau

Looker

BigQuery

Job description

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

Overview

General Mills’ Digital & Technology function leads enterprise-wide digital transformation by combining business partnership, innovation, and modern technology. The team works across global business priorities to build scalable, high-impact solutions using advanced digital and data capabilities. It operates in an agile, inclusive, and learning-focused environment that emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and measurable business value.

Purpose of the Role

This role advances modern Business Intelligence and AI for BI capabilities across General Mills business functions. It partners with business, product, and technical teams to design, build, and scale trusted, governed, and user-friendly analytics solutions. The role focuses on enabling reporting, visualization, conversational analytics, and AI-driven insights with strong adoption, quality, and governance.

Key Accountabilities

• Design, develop, test, automate, and launch BI, conversational analytics, and AI-driven summarization solutions using Tableau, Looker, Big Query, and related tools
• Build technical architectures, semantic models, prototypes, and governed data experiences for trusted natural-language querying and dashboard summarization
• Lead design, code, model, and process reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise standards, AI governance, approved extensions, and performance best practices
• Drive end-to-end delivery across discovery, requirements gathering, estimation, solution design, development, UAT, deployment, and post-go-live monitoring
• Define business terms, metadata, reference questions, and testing assets to improve the accuracy and repeatability of AI-enabled BI outputs
• Partner with technical teams to optimize data models, granularity, labels, and performance, with a focus on scalable star-schema-based design
• Establish validation processes including training sets, golden queries, user testing, and accuracy thresholds for production-ready AI for BI capabilities
• Translate business needs into governed BI, NLQ, and AI summarization use cases with clear success measures and business value
• Collaborate with stakeholders, product teams, BI leadership, and governance groups to shape requirements, prioritize initiatives, and recommend best practices
• Lead workshops, pilot testing, feedback loops, issue triage, and continuous improvement to strengthen usability, trust, adoption, and solution quality

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university (full time) in Business Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of total experience with 6+ years of relevant experience designing and delivering BI and analytics solutions for business stakeholders.
• Expert-level skills in Tableau, SQL, Google Looker, Python, and BigQuery.
• Demonstrated experience building governed analytics products, semantic models, and scalable reporting solutions that support self-service analytics and decision-making.
• Experience with AI for BI use cases such as natural language query, conversational analytics, or AI-driven summarization, including testing, validation, and monitoring practices.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate business requests into technical requirements and explain trade-offs across tools, data models, governance, and architecture options.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional modelling, metadata management, data governance, data warehousing, and enterprise data platforms.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and to partner effectively with business leaders, technical teams, and governance stakeholders to deliver high-value solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Thought-driven leadership to successfully deliver scalable team management and business solutions.
• Knowledge of at least one other programming language such as Python is a plus.
• Take the initiative to do the right thing - doesn't walk past a problem.
• Consultant mindset - able to challenge with courage and influence upwards and with peers.
• Agile learner - has passion and curiosity to learn new things and understand the "why"

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.