Power Delivery Data Analyst

Power Delivery Data Analyst

The Power Delivery Data Analyst will be responsible for performing detailed data analysis, data requirements, and creating visually compelling data visualizations. This also includes increasing data quality, compliance, and governance. Additional responsibilities include consulting with Power Delivery partners on needs, translating business needs into analytics/reporting requirements, and interfacing with the Power Delivery partners to build custom business intelligence solutions. The analyst will analyze and troubleshoot issues that arise within Power BI and analytics toolsets and the enterprise infrastructure supporting these solutions.

 

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Business, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field is required. 

Experience

• Two or more years of professional IT experience preferred
• Experience managing data and analytics preferred
• Experience working in a fast-paced, competitive information technology organization

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong technical knowledge for data analytic & reporting solutions. Including but not limited to the following:
  • SQL Server, Oracle, HDFS (Cloudera Hadoop), and other on-premise and cloud-based data and information management systems
  • Advanced Analytics Tools like Azure, Power Platform (Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate), Tableau, Excel, etc.
• Demonstrate the ability to deep dive into data to find problems or trends.
• Manage, organize, and clean data effectively and efficiently while reducing manual reporting and data redundancy.
• Highly versed in analytic methodologies and modeling.
• Understand the difference between data and information with the ability to articulate it through verbal and no verbal means.
• Use data visualization skills and tools to analyze, package, and communicate reports to the business partners.
• Strategic understanding of data infrastructure, including on-prem and cloud data storage, retrieval, governance, reporting and cataloging preferred. 
• Experience operating and working in an agile project management environment. 
• Superior written and oral communication, to successfully interpret technical issues and communicate them in a clear, logical and concise manner.
• Excellent organizational skills are required to plan and manage assigned workload and customer expectations effectively to meet business unit requirements.
• Ability and determination to support multiple projects under tight deadlines

Key Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain interactive and visually compelling data visualizations.
• Write efficient queries to extract, transform, and manipulate data from various sources.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver data visualizations that meet business needs.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity in all visualizations.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends and best practices in data visualization and analytics.
• Represent Mississippi Power and successfully work with the Power Delivery Data Analytics organization that identifies, aggregates, analyzes, develops, and deploys data to drive comprehensive data and analytics efforts across Southern Company.
• Work with external data and product vendors that provide enabling technologies in data storage, data development and data analytics.
• Work with internal and external partners to ensure Company data remains “company property” and is safely and securely handled to avoid data leaks or data breaches.
• Work with internal and external partners to ensure that Company data meets regulatory and compliance requirements. 
• Organize and drive successful completion of data insights and projects through effective collaboration of team members and effective collaboration with key stakeholders. 
• Work with the department to build, develop and maintain models, reporting systems, dashboards, and performance metrics for key initiatives. 
• Serve in assigned disaster response role as determined by supervisor or manager.

Behavioral Attributes

• Must demonstrate behaviors consistent with Our Values and MPC’s Principle Centered Leadership
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal. The ability to present ideas in a concise and focused manner at various levels is a must. 
• Communicate technical information and complex data to both technical and non-technical audiences in a logical and concise manner. 
• Strong work ethic
• Must exhibit a strong sense of urgency
• Customer focused
• Self-motivated, takes initiative, is proactive, and habitually removes obstacles for success
• Promotes teamwork

Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, provides clean, safe, reliable, and affordable energy to more than 192,000 customers and communities in 23 southeast Mississippi counties. For over 100 years, Mississippi Power is a leader in customer service, workforce development and education, environmental stewardship, and employee volunteerism. The company is an industry leader when it comes to working safely, providing around-the-clock reliable service and its expert storm response. Mississippi Power has been at the forefront of innovation in the state through strategic partnerships in electric transportation and solar energy. The company has worked with the Coast Transit Authority to put the state’s first electric public transportation bus in operation and with Forrest County Agriculture High School on the state’s first electric school bus. It also partnered with the Hattiesburg Zoo on a new electric train and worked with the country’s largest Domino’s franchise to electrify its delivery fleet. Also, a leader in renewable energy, Mississippi Power partnered with the Naval Construction Battalion Center to install the first microgrid at a Navy facility. The company was among the first to introduce utility scale solar in the state with nearly 160 MW of renewable energy produced, enough to power 23,000 homes for a year. Mississippi Power’s mission is to provide world-class value to our customers and communities every day.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million residential and commercial customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy infrastructure company with national capabilities, a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience, and sustainability, we are taking action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture and hiring practices have earned the company national awards and recognition from numerous organizations, including Forbes, Military Times, DiversityInc, Black Enterprise, J.D. Power, Fortune, Human Rights Campaign and more. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com.

Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf. Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.

Southern Company is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.