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# IAR Senior Data Analyst

- **Company:** Western Governors University
- **Location:** Salt Lake City, UT, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $91,000.0 - $136,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Cognitive Psychology, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Presentation, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Power BI, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Sql Optimization, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Salt-Lake-City-UT/IAR-Senior-Data-Analyst_JR-026354

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
 * 5 years of related experience in Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Statistics, Decision Intelligence, Research, Learning Science, or Behavioral/Cognitive Psychology.
 * Advanced SQL proficiency, including experience with complex queries, subqueries, joins, aggregations, common table expressions (CTEs), window functions, performance tuning, views, and data modification statements.
 * Proficiency in Python or R, with the ability to automate, transform, analyze, and manage data workflows.
 * Strong experience building, managing, and maintaining business intelligence solutions, dashboards, and reporting environments.
 * Experience translating analytical findings into business recommendations and guiding stakeholders through strategic decisions and improvement opportunities.
 * Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and drive projects forward with a high degree of ownership and accountability.

Experience in lieu of education:
An equivalent combination of training, experience, credentials, or accomplishments demonstrating the ability to perform the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements.

Bonus Points

 * Experience with Tableau and/or Power BI.
 * Experience managing a large portfolio of operational reports, dashboards, and reporting assets.
 * Experience partnering with stakeholders across multiple business functions and strategic initiatives.

## Description

At WGU, data plays a critical role in advancing student success and driving informed decision-making across the university. As a Senior Data Analyst, you will serve as a trusted analytics partner, translating complex data into actionable insights that influence strategy, improve operations, and support university-wide initiatives. This role is ideal for an experienced analytics professional who enjoys solving business problems, building scalable reporting solutions, and helping stakeholders make confident, data-driven decisions., * Partner with business leaders, faculty, and cross-functional teams to understand business needs, translate user stories into technical requirements, and deliver analytics solutions that drive action.

 * Answer complex business questions by leveraging data from multiple domains and identifying the most appropriate data sources to support analysis, forecasting, research, and experimentation.
 * Design, develop, maintain, and optimize dashboards, reports, and business intelligence solutions that provide meaningful insights to stakeholders.
 * Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support the development of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and scalable analytics solutions.
 * Analyze and investigate complex data issues, improving the accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability of university data assets.
 * Communicate findings through compelling data storytelling, visualizations, presentations, and recommendations that influence decision-making.
 * Contribute to data governance, documentation, data modeling, and the continuous improvement of analytics tools, standards, and best practices., This position requires occasional travel of up to 20%, including required attendance at designated company summits (typically one to two per year). Additional travel may include conferences, visits to company locations, and other business-related events as needed. Additional travel may be assigned as needed to support business requirements.