IT PROFESSIONAL 3 - BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

State of Nevada; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vacation

Sick Leave

Holidays

PERS Retirement

Deferred Compensation

No state income tax

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Longevity pay

Job summary

The Governor's Finance Office, Office of Project Management, within the State of Nevada, seeks an experienced IT professional to join the CORE.NV ERP reporting team. You will analyze business processes and design, develop, and support enterprise reporting and analytics using SQL, Power BI, and Snowflake.

Responsibilities include data validation, performance tuning, release management, and ensuring governance adherence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, or closely related field with 3 years IT experience.
• Experience delivering enterprise BI solutions using SQL, Power BI, and cloud data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into scalable reporting solutions.
• Develop and optimize reports, datasets, and data models.
• Perform data validation, reconciliation, testing, and root cause analysis.
• Support reporting modernization, deployment, and release management activities.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide reporting/data support to CORE.NV project and production teams.

Skills

Power BI

SQL

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

JIRA/Atlassian

Job description

• No Nevada state income tax.

Job Summary

The Governor's Finance Office, Office of Project Management, is seeking an experienced professional to join the Reports Team supporting the CORE.NV Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation project and ongoing production support. This position will work collaboratively with State employees, contractors, vendors, and project stakeholders to analyze business processes and design, develop, and support enterprise reporting and analytics solutions. Responsibilities include translating business requirements into scalable reporting solutions; developing and optimizing reports, datasets, and data models; performing data validation, reconciliation, testing, and root cause analysis; and supporting reporting modernization, deployment, and release management activities. The position will ensure compliance with enterprise BI governance and development standards, maintain technical documentation and reporting standards, and communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. The successful candidate will also provide reporting and data support to other CORE.NV Project and Production Support teams, including human resources, fiscal, procurement, budget, grants, security/configuration, interfaces/integrations, and testing. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering enterprise-level BI solutions using complex data models, SQL, Power BI, and cloud data platforms such as Snowflake. Experience with tools such as JIRA, the Atlassian Suite, or ServiceNow is desirable. Strong organizational, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with the ability to adapt to evolving technologies and business needs, are essential.

Information Technology (IT) Professionals analyze, develop, implement, maintain, and modify computer operations, systems, networks, databases, applications, and/or information security. Incumbents may perform duties in one or more IT specialization areas depending on the needs of the agency.

Essential Qualifications

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and three years of professional IT experience relevant to the duties of the position which may include computer operations, systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, and/or information security, one year of which was at the journey level; OR one year of relevant experience as an IT Professional II in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Job Duties

• Conduct detailed alternative analyses and determine end-user requirements through consultation with end-users, technicians, vendors, management, and others.
• Maintain documentation related to the assigned IT specialization’s architecture, operations, and other records of work activities as required.
• Maintain current knowledge of technological trends and advancements in the IT field as well as security management practices, laws, policies, and ethics.
• Participate in recommending and justifying resource allocations and expenditure decisions, tracking, and recording expenditures, preparing purchase requests, and writing technical requirements for grant proposals.
• Perform related duties as assigned.
• Under general direction, incumbents perform advanced journey level duties and may train, supervise, and evaluate the performance of subordinate staff and/or serve as a project leader as assigned. Incumbents may function as a unit leader to include directing the activities of a branch IT support unit, overseeing projects of limited scope, and coordinating activities with other work groups. This is a supervisory level for Computer Operations and the journey level for Information Security positions.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

This job specification lists the major knowledge, skills and abilities of the job and is not all inclusive. Incumbent(s) will be expected to have knowledge, skills and abilities from a previous level.

Systems Administration

Detailed knowledge of: Some positions require knowledge of specific departmental information systems.

Working knowledge of: principles of designing test procedures; principles, practices, and procedures required to design, analyze, and maintain software; principles, tools, and techniques as applied to writing and modifying programs; systems programming languages and techniques.

General knowledge of: capacity planning techniques; performance monitoring principles and related software products; telecommunication technology and related systems software; various systems software products and their interrelationships; vendor procedures for applying maintenance and temporary fixes.

Ability to: communicate effectively orally and in writing; evaluate and tailor information system hardware and/or software to meet local requirements; implement auxiliary software and subsystems; maintain effective working relationships with others; provide mid-level technical consultation and training; recommend and implement system changes.

Skill in: implementing changes to a variety of networking systems; managing large volumes of data on various storage media.

Database Administration

Detailed knowledge of: physical and logical database structure and design; database backup and recovery scenarios and methodologies; database security management and data integrity.

Working knowledge of: computer and network operating systems, computer hardware, and communications systems; database and operating system performance tuning monitoring; business practices and procedures; customer service standards and procedures; business software, systems analysis, systems design, system development lifecycle, and information architecture to effectively design and create databases; structured query language.

Ability to: coordinate system design, applications and software programming, and computer operations activities relative to the database environment.

Applications Analysis And Development

Detailed knowledge of: basic programming techniques such as table handling and on-line file updates; general purpose programming languages (in software-oriented positions); principles, tools and techniques as applied to writing, modifying, and documenting programs; techniques of diagramming program flow.

Working knowledge of: access methods and file structures; at least one formal systems design methodology; principles of designing test procedures; principles, practices and procedures required to develop, design, and implement information system-based solutions in a wide range of problem domains.

General knowledge of: project control techniques, including cost estimating and resource scheduling.

Ability to: utilize interactive programming techniques; logically analyze problems of considerable complexity; test and validate information systems.

Benefits Include

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees’ Benefits Program (PEBP).
• Vacation: Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year.
• Sick Leave: Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year.
• Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year.
• Retirement: Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). Employees do not contribute to Social Security but will contribute to PERS if their position is at 50% or more full-time equivalency. For more information on how PERS service may impact Social Security benefits, visit the SSA publication.
• Deferred Compensation: The State offers a voluntary Deferred Compensation Program.
• No Nevada state income tax.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Eligible due to public sector employment.
• Longevity Payments Eligibility: Employees who have received a performance rating of “standard” or better and have completed eight (8) or more years of continuous service are eligible for longevity pay.

Additional benefits

Additional benefits may apply to employees covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), depending on their designated bargaining unit. For more information, visit the Labor Relations Unit (LRU).

State Holidays The holiday schedule for State employees is established by the Legislature.

The Following Are Legal Holidays

• January 1.............................................. New Year's Day
• Third Monday in January.................. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
• Third Monday in February................ Washington’s Birthday
• Last Monday in May........................... Memorial Day
• June 19................................................ Juneteenth Day
• July 4.................................................... Independence Day
• First Monday in September.............. Labor Day
• Last Friday in October....................... Nevada Day
• November 11........................................ Veterans' Day
• Fourth Thursday in November........ Thanksgiving Day
• Friday following the Fourth Thursday in November...................... Family Day
• December 25........................................ Christmas Day

When January 1, June 19, July 4, November 11, or December 25 falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the observed legal holiday. If these days fall on Sunday, the following Monday is the observed holiday. Eligibility for holiday pay is covered by the provisions of NAC 284.255