# Lead Data Analyst **Company**: Craft Education **Location**: Nashville **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $91,000.00 - $136,400.00 **Category**: Data Science **Industry**: Education **Apply**: https://wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Nashville-TN/Lead-Data-Analyst---Craft-Education_JR-026419?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1d96ceb0-a4b ## Description We are seeking a Lead Data Analyst to join our team at Craft Education. As a Lead Data Analyst, you will be responsible for extracting, processing, analyzing, and reporting on data to produce rigorous, actionable insights and research. The salary range for this position is $91,000.00 - $136,400.00. **Primary Responsibilities** - Drives the documentation of data, analytics, and research needs in projects of high complexity with a student and equity-centered lens, collaborating with peers, cross-functional partners, faculty staff, and leaders. - Leads the translation of user stories into technical requirements. - Establishes trust and builds strong relationships with cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders. - Answers complex business questions requiring extensive knowledge of the university’s data assets across several domains and departments. - Identifies adequate data sources and data sets to evaluate hypotheses and produce forecasts. - Collaborates with Data Engineering in the development of complex ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines. - Identifies, investigates, and solves complex data issues, contributing to the accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity of the university’s data. - Combines data analysis, visualization, and narrative structures to convey information in compelling ways that instigate deliberate action. - Participates in the definition of data visualization standards and best practices and promotes their adoption across the university. - Conveys information effectively to peers, partners, and senior leaders, using a variety of resources and formats. - Creates and organizes information about processes, projects, operations, data assets, and insights from analyses and research, making it accessible in ways that increase the university’s knowledge and efficiency. - Writes and interprets technical documentation. - Contributes actively to the development of the university’s data management platforms. - Plays a prominent role in other team members’ development through constructive feedback and sharing of technical and institutional knowledge. - Drives tasks, activities, and medium-scale projects with high levels of autonomy, confidence, and collaboration with peers and partners. - Tracks and reports own progress, dependencies, and challenges diligently. - Works actively to improve own skills and knowledge through internal and external, formal and informal, structured and unstructured learning. - Supports leadership in strategic planning and contributes to operational excellence across the department. - Understands and abides by the relevant policies and methods to access, use, transform, store, and delete data in responsible, secure, and compliant ways. - Identifies data security risks when dealing with concrete data sets and takes adequate mitigation actions. **Qualifications** - Advanced SQL proficiency, with experience writing queries and subqueries, modifying, creating views, and knowledge of different join types, filtering, sorting, aggregation, window functions, common table expressions (CTE), and performance tuning. - Highly proficient and experienced in using tools like Tableau and Power BI to present data and information utilizing charts, graphs, and maps. - Ability to interpret and design models that describe how data relate to one another, and to the properties of the real-world entities they represent. - Comfortable with common project management methodologies and frameworks. - Proficient in the MS Office suite, including advanced Excel knowledge. - Proficient in flowchart and diagramming tools. - Familiarized with the university’s most relevant KPIs, the drivers that affect them, and plays an active role in their definition and tracking. - Ability to apply sound judgment, systems-thinking, and analytical skills to assess risks, perform root-cause analyses, make recommendations, and drive cross-functional decisions. - Ability to perform with very high levels of autonomy, reliability, self-direction, and with a bias for action. **Education** - Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline **Experience** - 7 years of related experience in Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Statistics, Decision Intelligence, Research, Learning Science, or Behavioral/Cognitive Psychology. ## Skills ### Required - SQL - Tableau - Power BI - Data Analysis - Data Visualization - Project Management --- Source: [Apply at wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Nashville-TN/Lead-Data-Analyst---Craft-Education_JR-026419?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)