Applications & Data Analytics Specialist - Sr. Lead

Job title: Applications & Data Analytics Specialist - Sr. Lead

Job Summary / Purpose The Applications & Data Analytics Specialist provides enterprise level analytical, reporting, application, and data engineering support to enable effective crisis readiness and response from cyber-attack, storm, wildfire, etc. and operational decision making. The role leads the architecture and development of dashboards, metrics, and analytics systems; manages the applications and dataflows that support them; and integrates multi-platform data sources to deliver reliable, actionable insights.

Focus: Foundational development and support

Characteristics:

• Supports basic dashboard and metric development, Power BI report updates, and platform-based query edits under supervision.
• Assists with data validation, documentation, and application administration.
• Learns Crisis Readiness & Response and Storm Response Operations workflows; contributes to metric troubleshooting and data integrity support.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Build and maintain enterprise Power BI semantic models, dataflows, and shared datasets to support scalable, reusable analytics solutions.
• Develop platform based (e.g. SQL) data extractions, transformations, stored procedures, and analytics models from multiple systems.
• Develop documentation, training, and governance processes to ensure stable, secure application operation.
• Integrate and manage data across internal platforms (APIs, operational systems, databases, storm systems, finance systems).

Typical Qualifications

Specialist:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 1+ years relevant experience.

Sr. Level:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years progressively revelant experience.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Dashboard & Metrics Development

• Design, develop, and maintain standardized enterprise and departmental dashboards, metrics, and scorecards supporting executive decision making for crisis readiness and response, storm preparedness and response, operational performance, and cost forecasting.
• Govern KPI definitions, metric logic, and visual frameworks to ensure consistency and reliability across Crisis Readiness & Response analytics.
• Partner with stakeholders to define new metrics, refresh cycles, and decision support visualization requirements.

Power BI Architecture & Reporting

• Build and maintain enterprise Power BI semantic models, dataflows, and shared datasets to support scalable, reusable analytics solutions.
• Implement dashboard performance optimization, governance controls, data security, workspace management, and lifecycle standards.
• Oversee Power BI environment health, including dataset refreshes, gateway troubleshooting, and workspace access.

Data Platform Engineering

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