BI & Analytics Engineer - Snowflake, dbt & Power BI

University of the Cumberlands; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of the Cumberlands is building a new Data Engineering team within IT, and we're looking for a BI & Analytics Engineer to own business intelligence and reporting across the University. You'll work directly with stakeholders to understand decisions they need to make, build trusted data models in Snowflake using dbt, and deliver clear, focused reports in Power BI.

You'll also help define the shared metrics, definitions, and business context that allow AI tools and agents to answer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4+ years in business intelligence, analytics, or related data role.
• Strong SQL skills including joins, aggregations, CTEs, and troubleshooting.
• Experience building reports or dashboards in a BI tool such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Sigma, or Omni.
• Solid understanding of data modeling concepts such as fact and dimension tables and star schemas.
• Demonstrated ability to gather requirements from non-technical stakeholders and turn them into useful reports.
• Track record of working independently: managing your own priorities and owning work from request to delivery.
• Strong attention to data accuracy and sound judgment around data privacy and access.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Owner of the University's Power BI environment including workspaces, permissions, publishing, and reports lifecycle.
• Build and maintain dashboards for admissions, enrollment, retention, and finance.
• Review reports to decide which to rebuild, consolidate, or retire.
• Build dbt models in Snowflake to turn source data into clean, documented, and tested datasets.
• Define business logic in dbt to ensure metrics are consistent across reports.
• Document shared metrics, business definitions, and semantic models supporting reporting and AI queries.
• Validate data and reports and explain discrepancies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify questions, metrics and how the report will be used.
• Explain report logic and data limitations; support adoption with training.

Skills

SQL

Power BI

Data modeling

Stakeholder requirements

Independent delivery

Data privacy

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Git

Job description

The University of the Cumberlands is building a new Data Engineering team within IT, and we're looking for a BI & Analytics Engineer to own business intelligence and reporting across the University. You'll work directly with stakeholders to understand decisions they need to make, build trusted data models in Snowflake using dbt, and deliver clear, focused reports in Power BI.

You'll also help define the shared metrics, definitions, and business context that allow AI tools and agents to answer