WGU is looking to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs and needs a Lead Data Analyst to support data-informed decisions that lead to better student outcomes.
Requirements
- Advanced SQL proficiency, with experience writing queries and subqueries, modifying data (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE), creating views, and knowledge of different join types, filtering, sorting, aggregation, window functions, common table expressions (CTE), and performance tuning.
- Highly proficient and experienced in using tools like Tableau and Power BI to present data and information utilizing charts, graphs, and maps in ways that make it easy to understand trends, patterns, and outliers.
- Ability to interpret and design models that describe how data relate to one another, and to the properties of the real-world entities they represent.
- Experienced with descriptive statistics, causal analysis, and inference.
- Familiarized with forecasting methods (time series, inferential, and/or regression) and with classification algorithms.
- Proficient in the MS Office suite, including advanced Excel knowledge.
- Proficient in flowchart and diagramming tools like Miro, Visio, Lucidchart, and similar applications.
Responsibilities
- Drives the documentation of data, analytics, and research needs in projects of high complexity with a student and equity-centered lens, collaborating with peers, cross-functional partners, faculty staff, and leaders.
- Answers complex business questions requiring extensive knowledge of the university’s data assets across several domains and departments.
- Identifies adequate data sources and data sets to evaluate hypotheses and produce forecasts.
- Collaborates with Data Engineering in the development of complex ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.
- Identifies, investigates, and solves complex data issues, contributing to the accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity of the university’s data.
- Combines data analysis, visualization, and narrative structures to convey information in compelling ways that instigate deliberate action.
- Utilizes software, scripts, and algorithms to perform data-related tasks (e.g. importing, cleaning, transforming, analyzing displaying) without human intervention.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline
- 7 years of related experience in Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Statistics, Decision Intelligence, Research, Learning Science, or Behavioral/Cognitive Psychology.
- Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements.
- Ability to apply sound judgment, systems-thinking, and analytical skills to assess risks, perform root-cause analyses, make recommendations, and drive cross-functional decisions that contribute to the achievement of the university’s objectives.
- Ability to perform with very high levels of autonomy, reliability, self-direction, and with a bias for action.
