Associate Data Analyst (Community Lighting - Asset Maint & Con)

 DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.
 

But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.
 

Testing Required: Not Applicable

Hybrid Role: Must be able to come on-site periodically and reside a commutable distance from the assigned work location.

Emergency Response: Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.

Job Summary

The Associate Data Analyst is responsible for collecting, validating, and analyzing business data to support strategic decision-making. This role develops and maintains data processes, ensures data integrity, and delivers actionable insights through dashboards, reports, and visualizations. The Associate Data Analyst collaborates with cross-functional teams to understand business needs, enables self-service analytics, and drives continuous improvement through predictive modeling and business intelligence tools. Additional responsibilities include validating contractor service/material receipts, assigning work to contractors, contacting customers to resolve outages, and maintaining cycle time metrics to ensure operational efficiency.

Key Accountabilities

• Conducts data analysis to make business recommendations (e.g., cost-benefit, invest-divest, forecasting, predictive, what-if, impact analysis, etc.)
• Owns data cleansing and accuracy for various data elements used publicly.
• Develops and manages processes, standards, data quality/integrity, etc., to ensure effective and efficient use of data throughout the enterprise.
• Ensures business process consistency and integration with other functional domains to meet DTE business requirements and solutions.
• Delivers effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders, and creates visual displays of quantitative information.
• Develops, modifies, and automates reports, iteratively builds and prototypes dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for analytical needs.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to understand their business needs, formulates complete end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables, and presentations, through scorecards and dashboards.
• Trains and enables self-service reporting capability and use of business intelligence tools for their supported business unit(s).
• Develops actionable insights from in-depth data analysis to help DTE Energy focus on key decisions to improve products, services, and customer satisfaction.

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• Minimum: Bachelor's degree.
• Individuals who will be obtaining their degree within nine months from submitting interest will be considered; however, verification of the degree will be required prior to starting in the job

Other Qualifications

Preferred

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree with emphasis on coursework of a quantitative nature (e.g, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Sciences, Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Business Economics, etc)
• Background or coursework in in-depth quantitative analytics
• Experience in scripting with SQL, extracting large sets of data, and design of ETL flows
• Work experience in an interdisciplinary/cross-functional field
• Utility or customer-oriented industry experience
• Experience with PowerBI, CRM, SAP, MAXIMO

Other Requirements

• Intermediate-level experience with statistical packages (e.g, R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, MATLAB, etc)
• Experience articulating product questions, pulling data from relational databases technologies (e.g SAP, PeopleSoft, ORACLE, SQL), using statistical tools to solve business problems, and to conduct indepth analysis to support decision making
• Proficiency in Business Intelligence (BI) tools (e.g, Webi, Analysis, Lumira, Tableau etc)
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and problem solving skills, including ability to communicate technical information and complex data analytics to a nontechnical audience
• Self-starter in advancing skillset in data, analytics and technical capabilities
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time and meet tight deadlines
• Deep interest and aptitude in data, metrics, analysis, trends, statistics, and program evaluation
• Distinctive problem solving skills and strong business acumen
• Capable of translating analysis results into business recommendations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Additional Information

Incumbents may engage in all or some combination of the activities and accountabilities, and utilize a variety of the competencies cited in this description depending upon the organization and role to which they are assigned. This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents in this job. It is not intended as an all-inclusive list of accountabilities or responsibilities, nor is it intended to limit the rights of supervisors or management representatives to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision.

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