BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST - LEAD - 10282026-82332

State of Tennessee

Nashville (TN)

Hybrid

USD 79,000 - 102,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

State of Tennessee is seeking a strategic BI leader to drive enterprise data warehousing, dashboards, and reporting. You will oversee requirements, data modeling, governance, and performance while guiding a BI team toward delivering trusted insights for executives and line managers.

Under general supervision, you will align BI initiatives with organizational priorities, manage ETL processes, and ensure data privacy and security.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and five years in BI or data warehousing.
Associate degree may substitute for bachelor’s.
Certifications and advanced experience may substitute for education.

Responsibilities

Leads BI strategy development and reporting governance.
Gather and document requirements with stakeholders and translate to data needs.
Oversee data models, ETL processes, and BI deployments for trusted insights.
Lead BI team and coordinate cross-functional delivery across departments.
Ensure data quality, security, and performance across BI solutions.

Skills

Systems Analysis

Decision Quality

Persuades

Directs Work

Plans and Aligns

Reading Comprehension

Critical Thinking

Complex Problem Solving

Customer Focus

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Five years BI/data warehousing experience

Associate degree substitution allowed

Certifications may substitute education

Tools

BI platforms

ETL tools

SQL

Query languages

MS Office

Job description

State of Tennessee Job Information

Opening Date/Time 10/28/2026 12:00AM Central Time

Job Information

Opening Date/Time 10/28/2026 12:00AM Central Time

Closing Date/Time 11/10/2026 11:59PM Central Time

Salary (Monthly) $6,610.00 - $8,539.00

Salary (Annually) $79,320.00 - $102,468.00

Job Type Full-Time

City, State Location Nashville, TN

Department Finance and Administration

LOCATION OF (2) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADINISTRATION, DAVIDSON COUNTY

This position requires a criminal background check and CJIS Fingerprints. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

This position is designed as Hybrid (In office and Remote).

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree and five years of experience in business intelligence or data warehousing. Associate degree in a related field may substitute for the bachelor's. Additional certifications and advanced experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.

Overview

Under general supervision, this role leads advanced Business Intelligence work and supports a team responsible for designing, developing, governing, and supporting enterprise business intelligence and reporting solutions. The incumbent will lead requirements discovery and document business needs into actionable data and reporting strategies, while ensuring that solutions align with customer need, data accuracy, security and data protection, data governance, and performance standards. The role ensures delivery of accurate and trusted data insights that support operational and strategic data driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

Strategy Governance and Stakeholder Alignment

Leads the development and implementation of business intelligence and reporting strategies that align with organizational priorities and enterprise technology direction.
Facilitates requirements-gathering sessions with business stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and technical teams to define, document, validate, and prioritize business outcomes, reporting needs, key performance indicators, and data requirements.
Translates business requirements into solution concepts, use cases, data requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
Coordinates competing priorities across business areas and recommends sequencing, scope, and delivery approaches based on value, risk, complexity, and available resources.
Acts as a liaison between technical and non-technical teams and communicates status, risks, decisions, dependencies, and recommendations to leadership and project stakeholders.
Evaluates and recommends BI tools, platforms, and practices to maintain a scalable, secure, and strategically aligned BI ecosystem.

Architecture Data Modeling and Integration

Leads architecture and design decisions for data warehouses, semantic models, dashboards, reports, scorecards, and related BI services.
Designs and governs logical and physical data models, including facts, dimensions, relationships, business definitions, and data structures that support reliable reporting and analytics.
Oversees ETL solutions, including source-system analysis, data transformation, scheduling, dependencies, notifications, and operational controls.
Ensures BI solutions integrate appropriately with source systems, enterprise platforms, data services, and productivity tools while preserving security and maintainability.
Applies data quality, privacy, security, configuration management, change control, and documentation standards across the BI lifecycle. Reporting Analytics and Performance
Oversees the design and delivery of dashboards, reports, scorecards, and analytical products that provide actionable information to executives, managers, clients, and other decision makers.
Ensures reporting solutions are usable, accessible, accurate, performant, and aligned with approved requirements and business definitions.
Guides the use of data analysis, trend analysis, predictive analytics, data mining, and other appropriate analytical methods to support operational and strategic outcomes.
Leads performance tuning for data models, ETL processes, queries, dashboards, and reporting platforms; monitors system health, data integrity, usage, and process failures.
Oversees testing, validation, deployment, release coordination, and post-implementation review for BI solutions.

Team Leadership and Delivery

Leads people and teams toward project and product goals; coordinates work plans, estimates effort, manages dependencies, and optimizes resource utilization.
Mentors, coaches, and cross-trains BI staff in architecture, requirements analysis, data modeling, Tableau, Power BI, SQL, ETL, reporting design, testing, documentation, and support practices.
Provides consultation and technical guidance to business users and development resources on BI capabilities, reporting options, data interpretation, and best practices.
Identifies risks, issues, data anomalies, and process weaknesses; directs root-cause analysis and coordinates resolution of complex BI problems.
Documents business processes, data flows, use cases, decisions, standards, and solution designs to support knowledge transfer, maintainability, auditability, and long-term operations.

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