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Southern Company

Analyst Sr, Data Analytics

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Birmingham
State: 
Alabama
Occupational fields: 
Technology
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other

Job Title: Sr. Data Analytics Analyst (Business Intelligence Developer)

Purpose:

This position will be filled in the Data Analytics & Reporting team within Technology Services. Key responsibilities as a member of the team include detailed data analysis, data modeling and requirements mapping, ETL design and development, analysis cube development, and BI solution development including presentation layer delivery. This position also works closely with Data Architects within the organization to ensure that new analytics solutions align with the enterprise data management strategy. This includes identification of the true source of data, reducing data redundancy and focus on increased integration of data across business units. This includes increasing data quality, compliance, and governance.

Additional requirements of this position include consulting with partners on their business needs, translating business needs into analytics/reporting requirements, and interfacing with the partners and other IT team members to build custom business intelligence solutions. The successful candidate will have proven ability to analyze and troubleshoot issues that arise within BI and analytics toolsets and the enterprise infrastructure supporting these solutions.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related degree preferred

Experience with implementing BI/analytics solutions using the Microsoft BI/analytics toolset

Experience working in a fast-paced, competitive information technology organization

Knowledge/Skills:

Strong technical knowledge implementing business intelligence solutions using the Microsoft BI toolset:

SQL Server Tools (Analysis Services, Integration Services, Reporting Services, PolyBase)

Microsoft Azure

Power BI and/or Tableau experience

Proficient in DAX

AI knowledge prefered

Strong data modeling skills and understanding of data warehouse design techniques

Knowledge of data migration and integration

General knowledge of Hadoop and other big data technologies

Deep analytical capability to debug, monitor, and troubleshoot issues with BI solutions

Effective communication (verbal/written) and leadership skills to foster enterprise adoption of BI solutions by power users within business units and other IT teams

Comprehensive consulting skills with proven ability to work with and influence others

Excellent customer service skills

Continuous self-learner

Ability to handle multiple assignments and conflicting priorities

Ability to build productive relationships with a focus on cooperation and teamwork

General Job Responsibilities:

Capture, document, analyze, and correlate business information from multiple data sources

Scope, develop, package and deliver new business intelligence and analytics solutions

Develop online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes, static/dynamic dashboards, and interactive reports, charts, and graphs based on customer needs

Design and develop ETL packages; demonstrate thorough understanding of ETL components

Design, build and deliver new reports, measures, and KPIs

Perform detailed data analysis and developing dimensional data models

Serve as a BI subject matter expert to properly assess BI needs for business unit users and map those needs to appropriate back-end solution architectures (i.e. OLTP/transactional databases, data marts, data warehouses, cubes, tabular models, local data sources, etc.)

Collaborate with end users to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery

Collaborate with peers; mentoring team members to enhance skills and abilities; providing leadership as required

Core Behavioral Attributes:

The successful candidate will demonstrate understanding and application of the Southern Style behaviors: Unquestionable Trust, Superior Performance, and Total Commitment.

Additional required behavioral attributes:

Results-oriented

Innovative

Strategic thinker with an enterprise view for sustainable solutions

Committed to continuous learning and improvement

Committed to the development of others

Committed to building and maintaining constructive partnerships with business partners

Works well both independently and with others

Acts with speed and decisiveness

Committed to ethical conduct

Lives and works safely

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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