Associate Director of Business Intelligence

New Jersey Institute of Technology; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 152,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

New Jersey Institute of Technology seeks a senior analytics leader to drive an enterprise analytics program using MicroStrategy, Snowflake, and Matillion. You will align BI initiatives with campus needs and IT strategy, oversee the analytics platform, and champion data governance across Finance, HR, and other divisions.

You will collaborate with IST and campus partners to improve reporting, data quality, and performance while managing risk and security for university data.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Information Systems & Operations Management is required with 2 years of experience in the job offered or related roles.
• Experience leading enterprise analytics initiatives and BI tool implementations.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise analytics strategy aligning with the IT plan.
• Oversee management of analytics platform and BI tools with SQL and validation frameworks.
• Support data governance initiatives with campus stakeholders (Finance, HR, etc.).
• Provide innovative leadership in analytics and BI, promoting continuous improvement.
• Document data architecture, standards, and data model patterns.

Skills

BI leadership

SQL proficiency

Data governance

Data modeling

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Information Systems & Operations Management

Tools

MicroStrategy

Snowflake

Matillion

Smartsheet

Job description

• 1. Lead the implementation of an enterprise wide analytics strategy utilizing and having expertise in the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence tool, the Snowflake Platform and Matillion Integration Product. This implementation incorporates the needs from various campus divisions, aligned with the overall IT strategy.
• 2. Lead the ongoing management of the enterprise scale analytics platform, business intelligence tools and data management tools previously mentioned via expertise in SQL and prior validation frameworks.
• 3. Contribute and support the instituting of data governance using Data Cookbook. Having experience in partnering in the support by working with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Finance, HR, and other key members of the campus community.
• 4. Provide innovative and forward thinking leadership towards analytics and business intelligence with the specific technology stack mentioned, champion innovation and create a culture of continuous improvement where new thinking is appreciated.
• 5. Strengthen data systems by ensuring architecture, standards and methods are documented and followed. Knowledge of concepts such as Data Model Patterns, Slowly Changing Dimensions are required.
• 6. Institute appropriate controls and security measures that manage the university's data. Apply risk management processes to identify, manage, and mitigate risk for all enterprise applications. Ensure appropriate policies and procedures are created and implemented.
• 7. Implement application performance management strategies, database strategies, monitor strategies for MicroStrategy, Snowflake and for modern cloud platforms. Facilitate proactive planning in Smartsheet to improve overall application performance for all relevant applications that are in scope for enterprise analytics.
• 8. Direct the efforts of the business intelligence team with deep and diverse technical capabilities using prior leadership experience, encourage and facilitate on-going professional development in a field where technological change and innovation is constant.
• 9. Collaborate with the enterprise applications group leadership and IST counterparts on strategies that benefit the division and the campus.
• 10. Engage regularly with campus partners, including faculty, staff, students and alumni on topics and issues related to enterprise analytics, data and reporting needs.
• 11. Handle vendor relationships and resources utilizing existing prior Vendor Management experience.
• Requires a Master's degree in Information Systems & Operations Management and 2 years of experience in the job offered or 2 years of experience as a Applications Programmer or any other job title performing the following job duties:

• Create training and rollout approach for BI Dashboards for the University community.
• Provide innovative and forward thinking leadership towards analytics and business intelligence with the specific technology stack mentioned, champion innovation and create a culture of continuous improvement where new thinking is appreciated.
• Assist in evangelizing and presenting BI capabilities, plans and benefits to Stakeholders.
• Engage regularly with campus partners, including faculty, staff, students and alumni on topics and issues related to enterprise analytics, data and reporting needs.
• Participate in the requirements gathering, design, development, maintenance, support and documentation of Reporting and Analytics objects including logical data models, operational reports, and dashboards across multiple data domains supported by the team
• Provide expertise in data modeling, database design, data governance and master data management.

Salary Range: $151,861.00 to $175,842.00/year.