Business Intelligence Analyst

Job Title: Business Intelligence Analyst (III) Location: Remote (Only local to Phoenix, AZ) Duration: 6 months contract Overall Responsibilities: • We are seeking a temporary Business Intelligence Dashboard Developer to join our team and transform our planning data into powerful, intuitive visualizations. This role will focus on building out a suite of dashboards that provide a comprehensive and easily understandable view of all our operational plans. You will work with data from our core planning systems, including Anaplan and Google Sheets, to create a single source of truth that empowers stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Product, and Finance to make informed decisions. Top 3 Daily Responsibilities: • Design, develop, and maintain user-centric business intelligence dashboards primarily using Looker and client's internal dashboarding tools (e.g., Plx Dashboards, Looker Studio). • Collaborate closely with planners and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, understand their needs, and translate complex planning data into clear, actionable insights. • Write, optimize, and maintain complex SQL queries to extract data from various internal databases and systems. • Perform ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to ensure data is clean, accurate, and structured appropriately for analysis and visualization. • Unify data from disparate sources, including Anaplan models and Google Sheets, into a cohesive backend for our dashboards. • Champion dashboard usability and user experience, ensuring that the final products are not just functional but also intuitive for a diverse, non-technical audience. • Provide support and troubleshooting for existing dashboards, ensuring data integrity and performance. Mandatory Skills/Qualifications: Education: • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Business Analytics) or equivalent practical experience. Total years' experience in what industry, discipline or responsibility: • 3+ years of hands-on experience in a data analysis or business intelligence role, with a strong focus on dashboard development. Skills or processes candidates must have to be considered for the role: • Expert-level proficiency in SQL for data extraction, manipulation, and analysis • Demonstrated experience with ETL principles and tools. • A keen eye for user experience (UX) and design, with the ability to build dashboards that are both aesthetically pleasing and easy to navigate. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. • Experience working in a fast-paced, start-up environment; experience in the autonomous vehicle industry is a plus but not required. • Ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Specific Tools or Applications experience: • Direct, hands-on experience building and maintaining dashboards in Looker or client's internal visualization tools (Plx Dashboards, Looker Studio). • Experience with other major BI platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools. Non-Essential Skills/Qualifications: (Skills that would be nice to have but are not essential in the role) • Familiarity with pulling data from planning systems like Anaplan. • Report and dashboard building in Anaplan Description: As a Business Intelligence Analyst, you help drive outcomes for a business intelligence project as a key contributor. You act as a subject-matter specialist in business intelligence and possess strong analysis and data modeling design skills, which you use to design dashboards and maintain data pipelines. As you build new business intelligence processes and methods anticipating and addressing future issues, you improve business intelligence infrastructure and translate metrics and analysis into formats that enable supported teams to quickly and easily derive relevant information. Responsibilities include: • Provide ongoing support for cross-functional data users through maintenance of reports, queries, and dashboards. Size and plan for dependency changes (e.g., system migrations). • Develop suites of reports, queries, and dashboards that access and consolidate information from a variety of data sources. Design and implement full solutions that address specific, key use cases. Help these data products fit within larger programs or initiatives. • Consult with users or cross-functional decision makers to identify data sources, required data elements, or data validation standards. • Drive business intelligence solutions and infrastructure design to facilitate data gathering, storage, and retrieval. Partner with upstream data providers to find and establish new source data pipelines. Define local best practices; influence broader best practices. Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in: • Data analysis and synthesis • Data validation • Data visualization • Data modeling • Technical skills • BI Communication skills • Project management skills • Information gathering skills • Stakeholder management • Data analysis & synthesis • Business intelligence tools • Problem-solving skills • Database Design and Data Modeling • Dashboarding and presentation Russell Tobin offers eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors