IAR Senior Data Analyst

Western Governors University • Salt Lake City, UT

1d • $91,000 - $136,400 • Onsite

About The Position

At WGU, data plays a critical role in advancing student success and driving informed decision-making across the university. As a Senior Data Analyst, you will serve as a trusted analytics partner, translating complex data into actionable insights that influence strategy, improve operations, and support university-wide initiatives. This role is ideal for an experienced analytics professional who enjoys solving business problems, building scalable reporting solutions, and helping stakeholders make confident, data-driven decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
• 5 years of related experience in Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Statistics, Decision Intelligence, Research, Learning Science, or Behavioral/Cognitive Psychology.
• Advanced SQL proficiency, including experience with complex queries, subqueries, joins, aggregations, common table expressions (CTEs), window functions, performance tuning, views, and data modification statements.
• Proficiency in Python or R, with the ability to automate, transform, analyze, and manage data workflows.
• Strong experience building, managing, and maintaining business intelligence solutions, dashboards, and reporting environments.
• Experience translating analytical findings into business recommendations and guiding stakeholders through strategic decisions and improvement opportunities.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and drive projects forward with a high degree of ownership and accountability.
• An equivalent combination of training, experience, credentials, or accomplishments demonstrating the ability to perform the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Tableau and/or Power BI.
• Experience managing a large portfolio of operational reports, dashboards, and reporting assets.
• Experience partnering with stakeholders across multiple business functions and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders, faculty, and cross-functional teams to understand business needs, translate user stories into technical requirements, and deliver analytics solutions that drive action.
• Answer complex business questions by leveraging data from multiple domains and identifying the most appropriate data sources to support analysis, forecasting, research, and experimentation.
• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize dashboards, reports, and business intelligence solutions that provide meaningful insights to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support the development of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and scalable analytics solutions.
• Analyze and investigate complex data issues, improving the accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability of university data assets.
• Communicate findings through compelling data storytelling, visualizations, presentations, and recommendations that influence decision-making.
• Contribute to data governance, documentation, data modeling, and the continuous improvement of analytics tools, standards, and best practices.

Benefits

• bonuses
• medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
• health savings account and flexible spending account
• basic and voluntary life insurance
• disability coverage
• accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
• legal and identity theft coverage
• retirement savings plan
• wellbeing program
• discounted WGU tuition
• flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
• flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
• 11 paid holidays
• other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior