Lead BI Developer - Digital
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About the Role
Macy's seeks a Lead Business Insights Developer to harness data and analytical methods, leading a segment of work within an agile BI team. The role involves deploying comprehensive BI products, managing stakeholder relationships, and driving strategic decision-making.
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Responsibilities
- Work with BI Leadership and stakeholders to understand business objectives, map scope of work, and lead junior colleagues in delivering technical outcomes
- Serve as a point of contact for stakeholders within assigned projects; respond to inquiries promptly and escalate when needed
- Apply advanced statistical methods to uncover patterns and insights
- Collaborate with Data Engineers on data collection, storage, and retrieval processes; partner with Data Governance to identify data issues
- Lead projects using analytical best practices, ensuring data sources are connected with quality and reliability
- Leverage interactive dashboarding and visualization tools to translate data into compelling insights
- Lead validation, QA testing, and peer review processes to ensure data accuracy and integrity
- Provide post implementation support, including defect resolution and hands on troubleshooting of reports
- Manage Power BI administration activities such as capacity planning, data connection oversight, and user/group access provisioning
- Drive continuous improvement through performance optimization, automation, and expanded functionality
Requirements
- 5+ years of work experience analyzing data and building comprehensive dashboards in a retail enterprise setting
- Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
- Ability to lead portions of pod iteratives and support junior colleagues
- Consultative mindset with business first viewpoint
- Knowledge of data pipelines, BI Tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.), advanced report programming, and technical queries (SQL, R, Python, etc.)
- Outstanding analytical skills with attention to detail
- Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs
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Job Overview
- The Lead Business Insights Developer harnesses the power of data and analytical methods to tell a compelling story that transforms insight into action for stakeholders. They lead a segment of work within an agile business insights team, deploying comprehensive BI products that drive strategic decisi
What You Will Do
- Work with BI Leadership and stakeholders to understand business objectives, map scope of work, and lead junior colleagues in delivering technical outcomes.
- Serve as a point of contact for stakeholders within the scope of assigned projects; respond to inquiries promptly and escalate when needed.
- Apply advanced statistical methods to uncover patterns and insights, using techniques ranging from basic aggregation to complex statistical analysis.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers on data collection, storage, and retrieval processes; partner with Data Governance to identify data issues and propose cleansing or enhancement solutions.
- Lead projects using analytical best practices, ensuring data sources are connected with quality and reliability
- Leverage interactive dashboarding and visualization tools to translate data into compelling insights with a strong focus on user experience.
- Lead validation, QA testing, and peer review processes to ensure data accuracy and integrity in reporting.
- Provide post implementation support, including defect resolution and hands on troubleshooting of reports in the field.
- Manage Power BI administration activities such as capacity planning, data connection oversight, and user/group access provisioning.
- Drive continuous improvement through performance optimization, automation, and expanded functionality.
- Foster an environment of acceptance and respect that strengthens relationships, and ensures authentic connections with colleagues, customers, and communities.
Skills You Will Need
- Group Work Leadership: Ability to lead portions of pod iteratives; can clearly communicate priorities and play an effective technical support role for junior colleagues.
- Consultive Mindset: Go beyond just providing analytics and actively engage stakeholders to understand their challenges and goals. Ability to have a business first viewpoint when developing solutions.
- Technical Acumen: Knowledge of data pipelines, BI Tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.), advanced report programming, and technical queries (SQL, R, Python, etc.).
- Analytical and Problem Solving Skills: Outstanding analytical skills with attention to detail, strong documentation, organization, time management, and problem solving abilities.
- Communication: Maintaining timely communication with management and stakeholders on project progress, issues, and concerns. Developing effective communication plans tailored to diverse audiences.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of work experience analyzing data and building comprehensive dashboards in a retail enterprise setting.
- Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
- An ongoing learner who seeks out emerging technology and can influence others to think innovatively.
- Gets energized by fast paced environments and capable of supporting multiple projects can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize time, and communicate timelines to team members.
- Highly autonomous and comfortable working in an ambiguous, continually changing environment.
- Passionate about building great BI products and solving customer and business problems.
- Regularly required to sit, talk, hear; use hands/fingers to touch, handle, and feel. Occasionally required to move about the workplace and reach with hands and arms. Requires close vision.
- Able to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs.
What We Can Offer You
- Comprehensive health and wellness coverage and a 401(k) match
- Paid time off and eight paid holidays
- Continuous learning and leadership development
- Merchandise discounts
- Performance based incentives
- Annual merit review
- Employee Assistance Program with mental health counseling and legal/financial advice
- Tuition reimbursement
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