Senior Data Analyst — Drive Strategy for Student Success

WGU; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

WGU is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to translate complex data into actionable insights that influence university-wide strategy and operations. You will partner with leadership, faculty, and cross-functional teams to deliver analytics solutions that drive action and improve decision-making.

The role focuses on designing dashboards, optimizing data pipelines, and communicating findings through compelling data storytelling. A strong SQL background and Python or R skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
• 5 years of experience in Data Analysis/BI/Data Science/Statistics/Research/Behavioral/Cognitive Psychology.
• Advanced SQL proficiency with complex queries, subqueries, joins, aggregations, CTEs, window functions, performance tuning.
• Proficiency in Python or R for automation, transformation, and data workflows.
• Experience building, managing, and maintaining BI solutions, dashboards, and reporting environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams to translate needs into analytics solutions.
• Leverage multi-domain data sources to support analysis, forecasting, research, and experimentation.
• Design, develop, and optimize dashboards and BI reports for meaningful insights.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering on data pipelines and scalable analytics solutions.
• Analyze data quality issues and improve accuracy, completeness, and reliability of data assets.
• Communicate findings via data storytelling, visuals, and presentations to influence decisions.
• Contribute to data governance, modeling, and best practices.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python or R

BI dashboards

Data storytelling

Independence & ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tableau/Power BI (bonus)

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

WGU is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to translate complex data into actionable insights that influence university-wide strategy and operations. You will partner with leadership, faculty, and cross-functional teams to deliver analytics solutions that drive action and improve decision-making.

The role focuses on designing dashboards, optimizing data pipelines, and communicating findings through compelling data storytelling. A strong SQL background and Python or R skills are required.