Data Analyst Lead

Oshkosh Corporation; Oshkosh (WI); On-site; USD 103,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Oshkosh Corporation seeks a Data Analyst Lead to transform enterprise data into high-value assets, enabling cost reduction and top-line growth. You will collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data products powering decisions across supply chain, manufacturing, and lifecycle services.

You will drive analytics maturity, mentor analysts, and partner with data engineers and BI developers to design robust dashboards in Power BI, while upholding data governance and security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or data engineering.
• 2+ years of demonstrated leadership experience, including leading technical projects or mentoring analysts.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable data transformation pipelines and dimensional models.
• Lead analytics engineering practices and data modeling frameworks.
• Partner with business leaders to translate requirements into robust data models and dashboards.
• Enforce data governance and RBAC across reporting datasets.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data modeling

Stakeholder collaboration

Executive communication

Manufacturing domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS, IS, analytics, math, engineering

7+ years data analytics/BI/data engineering

2+ years leadership experience

Tools

Git/GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Power BI

dbt

Job description

At Oshkosh, we build, serve and protect people and communities around the world by designing and manufacturing some of the toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We employ over 18,000 team members all united by a common purpose. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe, is critical in building and keeping communities clean and helps people do their jobs every day.

Summary

The Data Analyst Lead sits at the intersection of business intelligence, data engineering, and domain analytics. This role is responsible for elevating our analytics maturity by extracting measurable business value from data—transforming complex enterprise, supply chain, and manufacturing data into high-impact, decision-ready analytical assets that directly drive operational efficiency, cost reduction, and top-line growth. You will partner closely with business stakeholders across the enterprise to turn strategic business questions into scalable, high-value data products.

YOUR IMPACT

Data Modeling

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, performant data transformation pipelines and dimensional models using cloud data warehouses/lakehouses/dbt.
• Implement software engineering best practices within analytics: Git version control, modular SQL, code reviews, regression testing, and CI/CD deployment.
• Standardize business definitions and curate the enterprise semantic layer to ensure consistent metric reporting across all business units.
• Optimize analytical query performance, warehouse resource consumption, and end-user access patterns.

Strategic Leadership & Team Enablement

• Lead modern analytics engineering practices, advanced SQL techniques, and data modeling frameworks.
• Act as the technical liaison between upstream Data Engineering teams (responsible for raw data ingestion and infrastructure) and downstream business stakeholders.
• Establish data documentation standards, lineage tracking across projects.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Product Delivery

• Partner directly with business unit leaders (e.g., Supply Chain, Manufacturing Operations, Lifecycle services) to understand operational reporting requirements and translate them into robust data models.
• Partner with data scientists and BI developers to design intuitive, high-performance dashboards, self-service datasets, and reporting frameworks in tools like Power BI.
• Enforce data governance, role-based access controls (RBAC), and compliance policies across reporting datasets.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or data engineering.
• 2+ years of demonstrated leadership experience, including leading technical projects, mentoring analysts, or serving as a team lead.

Technical Proficiencies

• SQL: Advanced mastery of complex SQL (window functions, performance tuning, query profiling, dynamic modeling).
• Cloud Platforms & Warehousing: Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, or Azure Synapse / BigQuery.
• Version Control & DevOps: Proficiency with Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and command-line interfaces (CLI).
• Business Intelligence: Advanced data visualization and data modeling experience with Power BI etc.
• Modern Transformation & Modeling: Expertise with dbt and Kimball dimensional modeling techniques (Star/Snowflake schemas etc).
• Scripting: Working proficiency in Python for lightweight data scripting, API ingestion, or automation.

Core Competencies

• Proven ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into robust, production-grade analytical data models.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to convey technical architectures to business executives and business context to engineers.
• Strong product mindset and empathy for end-user analytics workflows.
• Experience within manufacturing, industrial IoT, supply chain environments.

WHY OSHKOSH?

Moving the future forward is our priority and this includes your future. We encourage professional development and champion our employees’ success through various skills and training opportunities. Named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute for six consecutive years, everything we do at Oshkosh is guided by our core values and the 15k+ team members around the world who embody them.

We put people first.

We do the right thing.

We persevere.

We are better together.

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Pay Range

$103,300.00 - $177,700.00

The above pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education and skills, as well as the equity of pay among team members in similar positions. Beyond offering a competitive total rewards package, we prioritize a people-first culture and offer various opportunities to support team member growth and success.

Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at [e-mail].

Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer. Job opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic. To the extent that information is provided or collected regarding categories as provided by law it will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.

Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation's legal duty to furnish information.

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