The following position will have the flexibility to be based anywhere in the U.S., for candidates who are willing to travel to the Stanford School of Medicine campus 5%-10% of the time, as needed.
Are you interested in being part of a dynamic team that is growing? Do you like to learn new things and be part of a group looking for solutions? Then please apply for our open Business Intelligence Analyst position!
Stanford University is seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst 1 who will contribute to the precision analytics in the Department of Emergency Medicine. This role will be part of the Emergency Department’s Precision Analytics Team that includes clinical informatics and research faculty, data analysts, and a project manager to meet a fast growing department’s need to make data-informed decisions to 1) manage the faculty group, 2) support trainees and 3) optimize clinical care delivery. Under limited supervision, but a high degree of teamwork, this role will perform moderately complex project and analytical work in a wide range of business intelligence activities that ensure the uniformity, accuracy, and semantic consistency of enterprise data through the application of effective data management, security, stewardship, and governance processes.
Work involves collaboration between Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford Health Care organizational resources making for a strong experience participating in the data driven community of research and patient care excellence at Stanford.
Duties include:
- Perform assigned activities involving decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing, data profiling (OLAP cubes, slice & dice, drilling), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. Develop insightful business intelligence reports (KPIs, metrics, adhoc queries), dashboards, scorecards, continuous monitoring (thresholds), and/or ad hoc analyses. Clean and transform data as required to deliver actionable information.
- Collaborate with application developers, end users, vendors, and management to ensure the creation and delivery of business intelligence solutions. Facilitate working sessions with central and distributed end users and management to identify and document current information flows, data models, reporting systems, user populations, and coordinate with current and future initiatives impacting reporting.
- Originate and coordinate data governance/stewardship assignments.
- Use reports and analyses to identify potentially problematic data, make corrections, and eliminate root cause for a range of complex data problems (e.g.: input errors or inadequate field edits), and recommend possible solutions and communicate their organizational impact.
- Perform fit-gap analysis comparing existing reporting solutions with BI strategy and assess compliance with best practices and established standards.
- Participate in user acceptance testing of new BI analysis and reporting systems, upgrades, enhancements and change requests; plan, conduct and document results of testing.
* – Other duties may also be assigned.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Attention to detail, and clear communication skills are essential.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED):
Bachelor’s degree and three years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience. Experience in a quantitative discipline such as economics, finance, statistics or engineering
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (REQUIRED):
- Knowledge of computer system capabilities, business processes and workflow.
- Ability to understand and apply the software development lifecycle and project management techniques.
- Demonstrated ability to review business processes and translate into BI reporting and analysis solutions.
- Experience in data analysis and root cause analysis and developing problem solving and analytical thinking capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability with enterprise application and database driven applications.
- Experience with relational and dimensional logical data modeling.
- In-depth knowledge of and ability using MS Office; analytical and business intelligence programs such as OBIEE, business objects, Informatica, Tableau, Matlab, SAS, R, SPSS etc.
- Extensive background and experience with report and analysis design and application of User Interface and User Experience best practices.
- Strong writing and analytical skills.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:
- Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
- Frequently sitting.
- Occasionally stand/walk.
- Rarely writing by hand; lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
* – Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.
WORK STANDARDS:
- Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
- Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
- Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University’s Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu.
The expected pay range for this position is $87,000 to $141,000 per annum.
Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.
The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.
Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.