Remote Data Analyst - BI & Education Insights

Step Up For Students; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Paid holidays (14 holidays)

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Step Up For Students seeks a Data Business Analyst to gather, document, and maintain data requirements supporting BI solutions including dashboards, data warehouse, and reporting. You will liaise between business units and BI developers to ensure high-quality data solutions.

You will test and validate solutions, design data mappings, and contribute to agile processes while building strong relationships across departments to improve efficiency and productivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, computer science, data analytics or related field from a four-year college or university or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 3-5 plus years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Beginner to mid-level SQL certification, and Microsoft Data Analyst Associate certification in Power BI or a related certification would be beneficial but not required.
• Experience with data analysis, warehousing concepts, testing and principles of business architecture and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains knowledge of the business needs as it relates to data.
• Elicits and documents requirements from stakeholders for reports, dashboards, metrices, and KPIs.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and understanding of requirements and technical solutions.
• Performs data analysis, data mapping, process flow analysis and design, assists with data and report testing and issue identification.
• Tests enhancements and fixes to ensure they meet the requirements or corrected issues.
• Assures integrity between data warehouse, data lake, and other systems as business rules change.
• Validates accuracy of transactions between integrated systems.
• Creates source to data warehouse mapping specifications, data models, and data flow diagrams for use by data development resources.
• Builds user stories with acceptance criteria for team backlog refinement and prioritization.
• Participates in Agile and SCRUM methodologies that are utilized by the organization to bring projects to fruition.
• Reviews user stories in backlog refinement meetings to ensure alignment and clear understanding by the Scrum team.
• Participates in the development and implementation of reporting that improves efficiency and enhances productivity.
• Develops and manages effective working relationships with other departments, groups and personnel with whom work must be coordinated or interfaced.
• Meets professional obligations through efficient work habits such as meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, coordinating resources and meetings in an effective and timely manner, and demonstrates respect for others.
• Constantly examines, develops, maintains, and updates team’s supporting documentation, standards, and guidelines.

Skills

Data analysis

BI reporting

SQL

Power BI

Communication

Teamwork

Documentation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, computer science, data analytics or related field

3–5+ years of related experience

SQL certification and Microsoft Data Analyst Associate in Power BI beneficial

Tools

SSRS

SQL

Job description

Step Up For Students seeks a Data Business Analyst to gather, document, and maintain data requirements supporting BI solutions including dashboards, data warehouse, and reporting. You will liaise between business units and BI developers to ensure high-quality data solutions.

You will test and validate solutions, design data mappings, and contribute to agile processes while building strong relationships across departments to improve efficiency and productivity.