Job Responsibilities:

Data Analysis, Query, Report Writing: Work with IT personnel, central administrative staff, and end users to conduct data analysis and validation, perform ad-hoc queries, and to design, develop, and maintain reports and related reporting programming artifacts. Follow programming design principles and best practices. Comply with software quality assurance standards, business goals, and project timelines in an agile delivery environment. Through release/upgrade notifications validate report functionality and edit reports as needed. (60%)

Data Design: Work with IT data modelers, central administrative staff, and end users to design data models, data sets, and data definitions for enterprise business intelligence (EBI) reporting and for use with data visualization technology solutions.

Test report and validate that it meets clients requirements. Prepare reports for deployment to multiple environments using established control protocols. Document and share technical and functional changes with colleagues. Coordinate and communicate system-related events with ITS support and communications personnel with a goal of providing excellent customer service. (20%)

Reporting Platform Administration / System Technical Support: Manage daily tickets and cyclical (release/upgrades) administration of reporting and analytics solutions in collaboration with other IT personnel, campus partners, and the campus community at large. Ensure the overall health of the technology platform. Apply software maintenance. Reduce operational complexity. Deign and implement system security. Perform capacity planning and management. Serve as escalation point for production and/or platform issues. (10%)

Other duties as assigned. (10%)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 1 year of professional work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree.
• A degree in Business, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Programming for various data driven tasks like analysis, extraction, cleaning, validation, summarization, manipulating, creating datasets and generating reports
• Awareness of dimensional modelling, Star Schemas, Data Marts.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products

LSU values skills, experience, and expertise. Candidates who have relevant experience in key job responsibilities are encouraged to apply— a degree is not required as long as the candidate meets the required years of experience specified in the job description.

Examples of Work:

• Translates business questions and requirements into reports, views, and BI query objects.
• Researches and understands business data model.
• Researches and understands SQL and relational and multidimensional designs.
• Develops reports, views, and BI query objects using organizational BI tools.
• Complies with BI standard operating procedures and institutional data management policies.
• Demonstrates effective knowledge of BI tool architectures, functions, and features.
• Provides data and analytics output that satisfy functional requirements and provides accurate results.
• Adheres to organization's design policies including maintaining current documentation.
• Provides troubleshooting for reports, views, and BI query objects.
• Collaborates with subject matter experts (SMEs), functional owners, and other ITS staff.

Additional information:

Please note that this position requires in-office work on our Baton Rouge Campus.