Senior/Principal Data Analyst
About The Position
Xcel Energy is hiring at the Senior or Principal Data Analyst level to define, implement, and support advanced analytics solutions and capabilities. The role integrates, analyzes, and wrangles data to solve business problems, works with complex datasets and a variety of tools, and communicates clear insights to multiple audiences. The Principal Data Analyst additionally serves as a team lead and determines team workload and priorities. The position involves collaboration with business stakeholders and development and engineering teams to understand and transform data, identify trends and patterns, and produce actionable insights. It also creates audience-appropriate visualizations and communicates technical information to stakeholders at different levels. Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model; many roles are expected onsite three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday, although expectations vary by role, team, and business needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in MIS, CIS, Statistics, Analytics, or a related IT field, or sufficient/equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in an analytics environment for the Senior level; at least 8 years for the Principal level.
- Expertise in SQL.
- Ability to work with large, complex datasets, draw conclusions, and propose recommendations.
- Ability to partner, collaborate, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues across business functions and organizational levels.
- Hands-on experience constructing visual analytics.
- Working knowledge of an analytics data warehouse and a big data platform.
- Familiarity with fundamentals of statistics, probability, and data pipelines.
- Strong attention to detail and demonstrated ability to wrangle data.
- Comfort working with structured and unstructured data.
- For the Principal level, demonstrated leadership skills and ability to lead a team.
Nice To Haves
- For the Principal level, hands-on experience constructing visual analytics with SAP products and/or Microsoft Power BI.
Responsibilities
- Define, implement, and support advanced analytics solutions and capabilities.
- Integrate, analyze, and wrangle data to solve business problems; maintain data integrity and address data imperfections.
- Process structured data and integrate datasets from various sources, collaborating with stakeholders to understand data and transform it appropriately.
- Work cross-functionally with development and engineering teams.
- Analyze large amounts of information to identify trends and patterns and derive actionable insights.
- Develop efficient, high-quality code; validate work, minimize errors, and follow version-control standards.
- Manage multiple tasks amid ambiguity and shifting priorities, and communicate status and estimates to management and team members.
- Create meaningful, audience-appropriate data visualizations that communicate results and business impact.
- Communicate technical information to senior management, clients, peers, and junior associates; build relationships across and outside IT.
- Address challenges to analytic processes, influence stakeholders, and gain support for analytic solutions and new tools or techniques.
- Maintain and improve technical skills through training and continuing education, while learning new data sources.
- For the Principal Data Analyst level, lead the team and determine its workload and priorities.
Benefits
- Annual incentive program
- Medical/pharmacy plan
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Dependent care flexible spending account
- Health care flexible spending account
- Health savings account (if enrolled in an eligible health plan)
- Limited-purpose flexible spending account (if enrolled in an eligible health plan and HSA)
- Transportation reimbursement account
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Fitness center reimbursement (if enrolled in an eligible health plan)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Transit programs
- Employee recognition program
- Pension
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Volunteer paid time off
- Parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
