Business Intelligence Analyst - People Practices Analytics

Job Description

DPR Construction is seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst to serve as the lead Data Analyst working closely with cross-functional teams in our People Practices Integrated Workgroup to build relationships, identify pain points, create and drive data strategy, and deliver actionable insights. The People Practices Integrated Workgroup is composed of leaders from the business and technology functions who support the strategic planning and delivery of critical technology and analytics to drive the business forward.  It includes Human Resources, Talent Management, Learning Management, Recruiting, Total Rewards, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) functions.  This lead role is part of the Data Analytics team and will ensure DPR is moving towards data-driven decisions based on insights derived from integrated business processes, systems, and analytics.

The Ideal candidate would have experience in the following:

• Strategic thought partnership – Someone who isn’t just reporting numbers but helps the business think differently about how we work. They should connect dots across Recruiting, HR, Talent Management, and DEI to influence strategy.
• Data integration & insight creation – Can pull together data from multiple systems (Workday, CMIC, Qualtrics, Eightfold, etc) and turn it into meaningful insights.
• People perspective – Brings a people mindset and understands how to attract and retain talent; can surface patterns to help prioritize where to focus our efforts.
• Clear storytelling & influence – Takes complex data and makes it actionable for leaders; creates visuals, dashboards, and narratives that drive decision making.
• Change leadership – Helps elevate how the People Practices team uses data, drives adoption of tools, improves data quality, and pushes DPR to be more disciplined and insight-driven.
• Trusted advisor – Builds relationships with HR, Talent Management, Recruiting, Total Rewards, and DEI so people proactively seek their input on strategy and pursuits.
• People Practices Insight: Deep understanding of people practices and employee experience metrics; proven ability to connect data to business impact.

Responsibilities
 

Strategic Partnership / Roadmap / Execution / Delivery

• Develop and maintain Strategic Partnerships with business stakeholders and a deep understanding of their people, processes, tools, and goals.
• Drive strategic conversations with stakeholders to fully understand and document pain points and business requirements, define the key insights and metrics required to improve business processes, and develop appropriate business intelligence datasets and analytics.
• Create, maintain, and execute on data analytics roadmap for stakeholder groups in alignment with overall goals and objectives.
• Participate in and collaborate with the Integrated Workgroup and functional teams to align Data Analytics (DA) efforts and resources with business goals and objectives.
• Identify opportunities for business process optimization and technical optimization and collaborate with stakeholders, as required, for implementation.
• Translate business problems into technical requirements and communicate technical solutions in business terms.

Visualization / Storytelling / Data Modeling

• Be responsible for taking data analysis and insights capability to the next level by working with data infrastructure to ensure the data is accessible; working with stakeholders to understand and align on business requirements; and recommending and developing new reporting and actionable insights to improve business processes and inform strategic conversations.
• Create complex data models in visualization tool, and make transformations as needed.
• Query Data Warehouse using SQL to quickly analyze datasets; clean data as required.
• Identify potential new datasets to add to the Data Warehouse and/or potential new integrations between source systems and the Data Warehouse.
• Work with Technical Data Analysts to build requirements for views in data modeling tool (dbt) and the data warehouse (Snowflake).
• Create and maintain dashboards and apps and perform ad-hoc analyses as required.
• Identify root cause of data integrity issues (report, DFL, data warehouse, source system).
• Complete impact analysis on reports when changes are made to source systems or tables upstream.
• Identify, quantify, and communicate impacts to stakeholders and customers.

• Follow, implement, and enhance data security and governance guidelines.

Collaboration / Training / SME

• Identify opportunities for data collaboration and integration