Business Intelligence Data Analyst Lead - Contractor

The Department of Mental Health (DMH) is seeking a dynamic individual to serve in a contracted role as Business Intelligence Data Analyst Lead.  This contract position reports to the Director of Strategy in the Data and Analytics Unit. This role supports the Strategy Director and the Department to provide analytic and technical skills necessary to innovate, build, and maintain well-managed data solutions and capabilities for the DMH.

The Business Intelligence Analyst Lead applies various research methods to mine, collect, examine, analyze, validate, and organize data and derive insights and present information from data analyses to support decision-making. This incumbent will also collaborate with Information Technology Departments to manage and make improvements across a variety of programs and develop policies to integrate data across distinct systems and ensure adherence to laws, regulations, and policies.

Duties and Responsibilities (these are a general summary and not all inclusive):

• Lead the planning, coordination, and implementation of analytics solutions for the Data and Analytics Unit that ensure proper communication and execution with project stakeholders. 

• Responsible for establishing and ensuring adherence to the principles of data quality management, including metadata, lineage, and business definitions for data and analytical applications. 

• Act as coach, mentor and motivator to data analysts across DMH and project team members. 

• Conduct detailed data analysis on data used across business units to evaluate business process improvement that optimizes efficiency and quality. 

• Design and establish processes that ensure the use of standard data and analytical applications and operationalize the use of data in business decision making.  

• Provide expertise, translate, and document the business needs to design; and develop tools, techniques, and metrics, dashboards, and reports for insights and data visualization.