Data Analyst

Purdue Alumni Student Experience (PASE); West Virginia; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10 paid holidays

Vacation days up to 22 per year

403(b) and Roth retirement plans

Health Savings Account

Dental and Vision insurance

Tuition discounts

Job summary

Purdue For Life Foundation is seeking a Data Analyst to create and maintain analytics reports and dashboards. You will work with Salesforce CRM Analytics, Tableau, Snowflake, and SQL, taking data projects from requirements through deployment.

This is a hybrid role requiring on-site work in West Lafayette up to two days per week. The position emphasizes data quality, end-user training, and collaboration with technical staff and stakeholders in a university setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Technology, MIS or related field.

Responsibilities

• Work with end users to assess needs, gather requirements, and propose solutions.
• Query, model, transform, de-duplicate, and back up data; support light ETL.
• Troubleshoot data issues and provide timely resolutions.
• Lead small to moderate projects and set clear objectives.
• Improve data processes, systems and tools for better performance.
• Maintain documentation for data, reports and tools.
• Explore new data tech to evolve reporting capabilities.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CT/MIS or related

Tools

Salesforce CRM Analytics

Tableau

Snowflake

SQL

Job description

Location & Work Arrangement

This position is Hybrid. Only candidates within reasonable driving distance of West Lafayette, Indiana will be considered.

Employment Type

Full Time

About Purdue For Life Foundation

The Purdue For Life Foundation is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Purdue for Life views, evaluates, and treats all persons in all Foundation-related activities solely as individuals on the basis of their own personal abilities, qualifications, and other relevant characteristics. All qualified applicants for employment will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, color, gender, national origin or ancestry, genetic information, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or status as a veteran.

Purdue for Life will not sponsor employment authorization for this position.

A criminal conviction check and negative controlled substance test are required for employment in this position.

Position Summary

This Data Analyst position is responsible for creating and maintaining data analytics reports and dashboards as well as associated data management tasks. Working closely with both technical colleagues and end users, and leveraging a variety of tools including Salesforce CRM Analytics, Salesforce Reports, Tableau, Snowflake and SQL, this position will take data projects from requirements gathering to development to deployment.

Key Functions

• Work with end users to assess needs, develop requirements and solutions. Support and train end users on created tools.
• Perform data management tasks, including querying, modeling, conversion, de-duplication, repair, light ETL support, and data back-up tool management.
• Provide experienced troubleshooting, problem analysis, and resolution for data related issues.
• Set objectives and work independently on small to moderate sized projects or assignments.
• Responsible for improvements of processes, systems, and products to enhance performance of area and broader organization.
• Support overall data quality and work product quality from team through QA processing and peer reviews.
• Create and maintain current documentation for data, reporting solutions, and tools.
• Help maintain, research, and evolve the use of data and reporting tool sets through innovative and emerging technologies.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Proficiency in advancement user requirements and solutions.
• Knowledge and understanding of relational databases and related knowledge management techniques, including data mining and management report generation.
• Analytical skills to design queries/programs and analyze data to present accurate and useful reports.
• Problem solving, resolution and customer service skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive data.
• Capacity to quickly learn new analytical Business Intelligence Tools.
• Must have the ability to work on-site in West Lafayette up to 2x a week.

Requirements & Benefits Summary

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Technology, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred.
• 3-5 years experience in data analysis and reporting required.
• Experience working with large relational databases required.
• Experience with Salesforce CRM and/or Salesforce CRM Analytics strongly preferred.
• Experience with Python and Snowflake strongly preferred.
• Development operations experience in an academic environment and experience with data visualization tools is preferred.

Position Level

Professional 2

Benefits Summary For Eligible Employees

• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Accrue up to 22 vacation days a year.
• Traditional pre-tax 403(b) and Roth retirement plans available.
• 10% employer contribution to your retirement plan and immediate vesting.
• Health Savings Account- earn up to $550 annually towards medical expenses.
• Employer funded Preventative Dental and Vision insurance.
• Tuition discounts on eligible programs at Purdue University and Purdue Global for qualified employees, spouses, and dependents.