IT Analyst Staff Spec, BI Dev

• Participate in cross-functional performance improvement team efforts, ensuring appropriate analysis of data, data accuracy, and data availability.
• Consult with all levels of users to help them solve problems, as well as contribute to highly visible and impactful organizational, projects through the expert analysis and presentation of data.
• Collaborate with operational subject matter experts and stakeholders, serving as lead developer and resident expert for outcomes-related metrics, ensuring accurate metadata, target/threshold acquisition, appropriate metric and report development, data validation, maintenance, and modification.
• Collect business requirements from appropriate stakeholders, design, code, validate, deploy, and maintain the semantic layer and metadata for complex reports and reporting tools, creating efficient and appropriately distributed solutions. Build BI solutions.
• Develop code with structured query language (SQL). Perform analysis of data. Design data collection tools based on parameters appropriate for the situation. Perform system administration: build, test, and assist with upgrade/enhancement/patch-related implementation activities.
• Adhere to, as well as provide leadership ideas for, team and departmental performance improvement activities related to quality standards and development best practices.
• Appropriately monitor the teamwork queue and triage requests (ensuring coverage if-needed).
• Prioritize work for fellow team members, as well as effectively run team meetings, in the absence of the manager.
• Participate in governance and Change Control-related activities (ensuring coverage if-needed).
• Keep abreast of new and emerging technologies that could provide an enhanced BI experience for customers, conduct cost-benefit evaluations, and provide recommendations related to potential new technology offerings. Regularly provide guidance and training to less experienced team members. Conduct review of fellow team member's work as requested and provide innovative ideas for performance tuning and general query optimization.
• Coach customers, as appropriate, on use of BI tools. Adapt to competing demands, shifting priorities, and organizational constraints.
• Remote work permitted.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, Logistics Management, or a related field and seven (7) years of experience in the job offered or as a Performance Improvement, Healthcare Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, or related occupation. Alternatively, the employer will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, Logistics Management, or a related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or as a Performance Improvement, Healthcare Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, or related occupation. Alternatively, the employer will accept a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, Logistics Management, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or as a Performance Improvement, Healthcare Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, or related occupation.

Position requires solid understanding of relational and multi-dimensional databases, schema design, indexing, and referential integrity. Requires expertise with T-SQL. Requires skills with organizing and analyzing large datasets. Requires proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word. Requires ability to learn new software as-required for the position. Remote work permitted.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physicians Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experience. We are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, and family medical or genetic information.