Assistant Director, Business Intelligence & Analytics, School of Medicine, Application Services - Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine is a premier academic medical center located in the heart of Richmond. Accounting for almost half of VCU’s sponsored research, the School of Medicine is internationally recognized for patient care and education.   All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU’s generous benefits package that includes:  competitive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave, retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, Virginia Retirement System (VRS), professional development & certifications, tuition waiver, parental leave, caregiving leave and community service leave.  Learn more about VCU’s benefits here: https://hr.vcu.edu/careers-at-vcu/why-work-at-vcu/

Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university providing access to education and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, political affiliation, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.

Position Summary and Primary Responsibilities:

VCU’s generous benefits include: Telework and flex-workoptions, Paid Annual and Holiday Leave, Competitive Health Benefits, Professional Development &Certifications, Virginia Retirement System (VRS), Tuition Waiver up to 2classes per semester, Parental Leave, Caregiving Leave, Community ServiceLeave.

This position resides with the School of MedicineTechnology Services (SOMTech) team in the Application Services (AS) unit andmanages 2 direct reports.

The AssistantDirector will overseethe creation of architecture, ETL processes, and data collections for Snowflakeon Microsoft Azure using school, university, and external data sources andinformation. This includesdesigning and delivering enterprise BI and analytics reports, solutions, andpromoting the use of self-service analytics across the enterprise. 

Key dutiesinclude:

• Executes substantial technical efforts in data warehouse creation and management with an Enterprise focus.
• Performs advanced 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.
• Lead information gathering sessions with business stakeholders to understand current and desired business intelligence capabilities.
• Translate requirements from stakeholders and work with the developers to source the data as needed, use a variety of tools and methods and to analyze and interpret the data, and finally assist in building out and maintaining dashboards and reports.
• Recommend and develop workflows, analytic rules, data models, and deliver recommendations for business and analytic decisions.
• Help aggregate and analyze data across disparate sources using a variety of tools and methods and derive intelligence that can be turned into actionable insights.
• Assist in defining data governance policies, standards, and procedures. Contribute to the development of data strategy aligned with institutional goals.
• Take the lead in promoting data literacy,data-driven culture, and best practices among stakeholders and BI teams acrossVCU and VCU Health.
  
  

Minimum Hiring Standards:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, Mathematics, or similar analytical field.
• 10+ years of experience working in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, or similar data-related functions in an enterprise environment.
• Experience leading and managing large and complex BI projects across multiple business functions.
• Experience reviewing and streamlining business processes, including gathering and documenting requirements, developing and implementing new processes and procedures. Solid experience on Agile, Scrum, and SDLC methodologies.
• Outstanding SQL data architecting/engineering (relational and dimensional data modeling) to lead planning and development of Business Intelligence Data Warehouse, as well as ability to quickly master existing data sets.
• Demonstrated experience in data modeling, database design, data integration, transformation, and ETL techniques. Strong experience in Snowflake for data warehousing and analytics.
• Extensive programming experience in Python for building data pipelines and automating data processes.
• Extensive experience in developing, maintaining and managing Tableau driven dashboards & analytics and working knowledge of Tableau administration and architecture.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to develop strong relationships with and effectively communicate complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with governance, data management, KPI development, and BI reporting management teams.
• Demonstrated experience with staff development, mentoring, and oversight.
• Prior working experience in higher education organizations.
• Must have a demonstrated commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion in past experiences or a commitment to do so as a staff member at VCU.

Preferred Hiring Standards:

• Graduate degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, and/or MBA candidates are preferred.
• Experience with version control systems and CI/CD pipelines.

Position will remain open until filled.

The School of Medicine continuously strives for our workplace and learning environment to reflect the demographic and social milieu of the communities we serve.  All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.

VCU is committed to hiring veterans! VCU will include a veteran's period(s) of military service in the calculation of their annual leave accrual rate. This may provide veterans with an increased leave accrual!

Salary Range: $120,000 - $130,000

Department: SOM Tech
Employment Type: UF - University Employee FT
Restricted Status: No
FTE: 1
Exemption Status: Exempt

ORP Eligible: Yes

University Job Title: Administrator, IT 1-3 (24911Y-24913Y)

Contact Name: Brittany Usera

Contact Email: brittany.usera@vcuhealth.org