Senior Data Analyst: Enrollment & Funding Insights

Stride, Inc.; Virginia; Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Stride, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to partner with school executives and stakeholders to define KPIs and analyze enrollment, funding, and retention dynamics.

You will translate complex policies into scalable analytical models using Python and SQL, and develop dashboards and reports to support strategic decisions. Your work will cover financial and operational analytics, forecasting, and compliance insights, with a focus on data quality, validation, and actionable insights for

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data analytics or related roles.
• Advanced SQL and Python for data analysis and automation.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business rules into structured calculations and analytical models.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data validation skills.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau and cloud data platforms such as Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with school executives, business leaders, and other stakeholders to understand key business performance drivers, complex state funding and compliance requirements, student enrollment and retention dynamics, business processes, and analytical needs, and provide data-driven insights and recommendations that support financial, strategic, and operational decision-making.
• Translate state funding methodologies, compliance requirements, retention drivers, and other complex business rules into mathematical models and scalable analytical solutions using Python and SQL.
• Develop, maintain, and validate analytical models, datasets, reports, and dashboards supporting key performance metrics, state funding, regulatory compliance, enrollment and student retention, forecasting, and operational decision-making.
• Analyze complex datasets to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and underlying performance drivers, including changes in funding, compliance, enrollment, student retention, and other key business metrics.
• Develop and analyze student retention metrics to identify trends, drivers, and areas of opportunity across schools, student populations, and key points in the student lifecycle.
• Document state funding and compliance rules, business requirements, model logic, data definitions, and analytical processes to support accuracy, consistency, transparency, and scalability.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Data validation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in data analytics or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Snowflake

Job description

Stride, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to partner with school executives and stakeholders to define KPIs and analyze enrollment, funding, and retention dynamics.

You will translate complex policies into scalable analytical models using Python and SQL, and develop dashboards and reports to support strategic decisions. Your work will cover financial and operational analytics, forecasting, and compliance insights, with a focus on data quality, validation, and actionable insights for