Developer, Business Intelligence

Company Description

Uncommon Schools  is a nonprofit network of high-performing, public charter schools providing an outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities. We have proudly built schools that reflect our student population, with more than 60% of our teachers and staff across our network identifying as a person of color. Uncommon currently manages 53 schools serving more than 20,000 students in five cities: Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark and Rochester. We are proud that Uncommon graduates persist in and graduate from college at five times the rate of their peers nationally. We achieve this by offering strong academic, co-curricular, and social-emotional learning that prepares students for success in college and beyond.

Job Description

The Developer, Business Intelligence (BI) will play a key role in Uncommon’s innovation efforts to ensure that Uncommon’s Home Office, Regions, and Schools have the technology solutions required to accomplish the organization’s strategic goals. The Developer, BI will develop an understanding of needs across all levels of the organization and implement new technology and data solutions to Uncommon’s most pressing problems. The individual will work closely with other team members, outsourced senior application developers, and owners of the data sources. The Developer, BI, will be responsible for providing access to the data via reports, data extracts, and analysis tools and for coding stored procedures. The individual will need to build an understanding the K-12 data landscape (e.g. assessments, SIS, standards), and to have the ability to gather reporting requirements, design reports, and release them into production.

Product Management and Development: 

• Examine and interpret complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights.
• Synthesize and translate instructional and business data needs into creative visualizations and tools
• Develop, maintain and manage creative advanced reporting, analytics, dashboards and other BI solutions primarily in, but not limited to, Tableau, which includes other reporting tools like Superset, etc
• Create detailed, interactive reports, intuitive visualizations, and dashboards that provide actionable insights and support decision-making.
• Develop a perspective on the best way to present statistical information to stakeholders; advocate for that perspective with stakeholders.
• Perform and document data analysis, data validation, data mapping/design, by accessing multiple sources, specifically data residing in source systems
• Provide application analysis and data modeling design to collect data for centralized data warehouse
• Extract data from databases and data warehouses for reporting and to facilitate sharing between multiple data systems

Data Governance: 

• Implement processes and standards for data quality, including validation, consistency checks, and error handling.
• Standardize data collection by developing methods for database design and validation reports
• Work with data stewards to ensure data integrity and address data quality issues.
• Maintain a data catalog to document data sources, definitions, and metadata.
• Facilitate data discovery and promote transparency in data usage across the organization.
• Collaborate with governance teams to align BI practices with overall data governance frameworks.
• Assess and determine governance, stewardship, and frameworks for managing business intelligence across the organization.

Subject Matter Expert and Stakeholder Representative:

• The developer is responsible for collaborating with diverse stakeholders to develop new, complex visualizations, often displaying data at multiple levels of granularity meant for different audiences. 
• The developer also needs to be able to help stakeholders understand technical challenges in our database well enough to help them prioritize investing in holistic solutions and paying down technical debt.
• Partner with instructional, operational, regional, and HO teams to develop reports and address data needs to provide reporting solutions
• Facilitate collaboration and communication with internal stakeholders to understand data needs, clarify requirements, and navigate and resolve competing priorities
• Understand and represent stakeholders’ goals and use cases to determine the future state of organizational integrations
• Understand and champion the appropriate long-term vision for BI at Uncommon
• Ensure user adoption of new processes by creating training materials and providing mentorship, guidance, support and performance feedback to end users of our visualizations and data sets
• Independently create detailed communication and change management plans for workstreams including simple, creativ