BI Developer/Data Engineer

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Closing Date:

01/22/2025

Type of Position:

Data Analysis and Insights

Workstudy Position:

No

Job Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Sponsorship Available:

No

Institution Name:

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas is a land grant institution, classified by the Carnegie Foundation among the nation’s top 2 percent of universities with the highest level of research activity. The University of Arkansas works to advance Arkansas and build a better world through education, research and outreach by providing transformational opportunities and skills, promoting an inclusive and diverse culture and climate, and nurturing creativity, discovery and the spread of new ideas and innovations.

The University of Arkansas campus is located in Fayetteville, a welcoming community ranked as one of the best places to live in the U.S. The growing region surrounding Fayetteville is home to numerous Fortune 500 companies and one of the nation’s strongest economies. Northwest Arkansas is also quickly gaining a national reputation for its focus on the arts and overall quality of life.

As an employer, the University of Arkansas offers a vibrant work environment and a workplace culture that promotes a healthy work-life balance. The benefits package includes university contributions to health, dental, life and disability insurance, tuition waivers for employees and their families, 12 official holidays, immediate leave accrual, and a choice of retirement programs with university contributions ranging from 5 to 10% of employee salary.

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Department:

Institutional Research and Assessment

Department's Website:

Summary of Job Duties:

The BI Developer/Data Engineer leads the development and maintenance of several ETL processes, designs data-related structures and flows, promotes best practices in the coding space, and collaborates with various units across campus. The solutions that this role creates and maintains will directly contribute to reporting solutions that are consumed by campus leadership, campus data partners, and external entities.

Responsibilities include assisting in a campus-wide data transformation that involves the migration to Workday Student as our student information system. The individual will be driving the redesign and support of several processes, sets of code, and reports that directly contribute to the university’s mission of enabling student success. Additional responsibilities would include assisting and collaborating with the team on other reporting tasks such as state and federal reporting requirements, ad hoc requests, and other analytics driven reporting.

Extensive experience and knowledge of SQL and data relationships is required, as is the ability to read, write, and analyze queries of varying complexity. Analyzing, designing, and optimizing processes to be more efficient according to best practices is a requirement. The incumbent should seek opportunities to continuously improve the team’s technical footprint by automating manual or laborious processes to free up time to innovate in other ways.

Great communication skills are essential as the incumbent will help establish and promote a data-driven campus culture, collaborate with campus data partners, and contribute to the overall data strategy mission of the university. Additionally, understanding the importance that data accuracy and data quality plays into the success of data-driven decision making is a key element of the role and the team.

Regular, reliable, and non-disruptive attendance is an essential job duty, as is the ability to create and maintain collegial, harmonious working relationships with others.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education

• SQL coding expertise

• ETL process development

• Data literacy

• Strong code analysis skills

• Ability to anticipate and identify data issues before they become problems, either in the source system or our internal processes

• Knowledge and implementation of best practices with coding

• Proficiency in translating business requirements into technical terms for IT people in a project centric environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Complex debugging capabilities

• Familiarity with SAS Enterprise programming

• System migration project/go-live experience

• Produces efficient documentation that is easily interpreted

• Proven track record of success in other data roles

• Workday report development/data extraction

• Previous experience in higher education

• Data model design experience

• Some knowledge of visualization tools

• Process design or coding in Azure or SQL Server environments

• Knowledge of data governance practices

• Past usage of code repositories

Additional Information:

Salary Information:

Commensurate with Education and Experience

Required Documents to Apply:

Cover Letter/Letter of Application, List of three Professional References (name, email, business title), Resume

Optional Documents:

Proof of Veteran Status

Recruitment Contact Information:

Brandon Bayles, Director of Strategic Analytics & Insights
bbayles@uark.edu

All application materials must be uploaded to the University of Arkansas System Career Site https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS  

Please do not send to listed recruitment contact.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Pre-employment Screening Requirements:

Criminal Background Check, Sex Offender Registry

The University of Arkansas is committed to providing a safe campus community. We conduct background checks for applicants being considered for employment. Background checks include a criminal background check and a sex offender registry check. For certain positions, there may also be a financial (credit) background check, a Motor Vehicle Registry (MVR) check, and/or drug screening. Required checks are identified in the position listing. A criminal conviction or arrest pending adjudication or adverse financial history information alone shall not disqualify an applicant in the absence of a relationship to the requirements of the position. Background check information will be used in a confidential, non-discriminatory manner consistent with state and federal law.

The University of Arkansas seeks to attract, develop and retain high quality faculty, staff and administrators that consistently display practices and behaviors to advance a culture that embeds inclusion, opportunity, educational excellence and unparalleled access for all.

The University of Arkansas is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. The University does not discriminate in its education programs or activities (including in admission and employment) on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, disability, religion, marital or parental status, protected veteran status, military service, genetic information, or sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity). Federal law prohibits the University from discriminating on these bases. Questions or concerns about the application of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, may be sent to the University's Title IX Coordinator and to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

Persons must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States on the first day of employment.

All application information is subject to public disclosure under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.

Constant Physical Activity:

N/A

Frequent Physical Activity:

N/A

Occasional Physical Activity:

N/A

Benefits Eligible:

Yes