Applications & Data Analytics Specialist - Sr. Lead

Entergy•New Orleans, LA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Applications & Data Analytics Specialist provides enterprise-level analytical, reporting, application, and data engineering support to enable effective crisis readiness and response from cyber-attack, storm, wildfire, etc., and operational decision-making. The role leads the architecture and development of dashboards, metrics, and analytics systems; manages the applications and dataflows that support them; and integrates multi-platform data sources to deliver reliable, actionable insights.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
3-5 years progressively relevant experience.
Build and maintain enterprise Power BI semantic models, dataflows, and shared datasets to support scalable, reusable analytics solutions.
Develop platform based (e.g. SQL) data extractions, transformations, stored procedures, and analytics models from multiple systems.
Develop documentation, training, and governance processes to ensure stable, secure application operation.
Integrate and manage data across internal platforms (APIs, operational systems, databases, storm systems, finance systems).

Nice To Haves

Supports basic dashboard and metric development, Power BI report updates, and platform-based query edits under supervision.
Assists with data validation, documentation, and application administration.
Learns Crisis Readiness & Response and Storm Response Operations workflows; contributes to metric troubleshooting and data integrity support.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain standardized enterprise and departmental dashboards, metrics, and scorecards supporting executive decision making for crisis readiness and response, storm preparedness and response, operational performance, and cost forecasting.
Govern KPI definitions, metric logic, and visual frameworks to ensure consistency and reliability across Crisis Readiness & Response analytics.
Partner with stakeholders to define new metrics, refresh cycles, and decision support visualization requirements.
Build and maintain enterprise Power BI semantic models, dataflows, and shared datasets to support scalable, reusable analytics solutions.
Implement dashboard performance optimization, governance controls, data security, workspace management, and lifecycle standards.
Oversee Power BI environment health, including dataset refreshes, gateway troubleshooting, and workspace access.
Develop platform based (e.g. SQL) data extractions, transformations, stored procedures, and analytics models from multiple systems.
Implement validation routines, performance tuning, and data quality frameworks to ensure metric accuracy and dashboard reliability.
Maintain documentation for metric logic, data lineage, and transformation rules.
Serve as technical steward for analytics, reporting, and metric producing applications, including access controls, configuration, performance monitoring, and change management.
Coordinate with IT and vendors to resolve issues, implement enhancements, and maintain application readiness during storm activations.
Develop documentation, training, and governance processes to ensure stable, secure application operation.
Integrate and manage data across internal platforms (APIs, operational systems, databases, storm systems, finance systems).
Partner with SMEs to eliminate data inconsistencies, troubleshoot cross-system issues, and improve metric accuracy.
Ensure data reliability for real-time and near real-time dashboards used during Crisis Readiness and Response events.
Utilize cross model data to produce cost forecasts, scenario analyses, and readiness assessments for storm and severe weather operations.
Support resource planning and financial impact assessments using historical, operational, and financial datasets.
Work directly with Storm Response Operations, Finance, Operations Centers, and IT to define requirements and deliver decision ready insights.
Provide real-time dashboard and analytics support during activations, drills, and after-action reviews.
Translate operational needs into governed, scalable metric and dashboard solutions.