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Business Intelligence Senior Data Visualization Specialist

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Chicago, IL, USA
Full-time

The Senior Data Visualizer will be responsible for the design and creation of visualizations of new high-impact visual applications to make data actionable and facilitate decision making for internal and external stakeholders.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Create business intelligence dashboards and visualizations to produce insights to complex problem data in ways that assist in translating organizational problem statements into actionable decision making practices.
  • Help formulate and facilitate the engineering of multi-dimensional databases, data models, and visualizations to accomplish the strategic goals of Business Intelligence and Analytics and help facilitate decision making by presenting complex data in a focused manner.
  • Support the Business Intelligence and IT team members with the understanding of business and data requirements, and iteratively design visualizations for initial concepts and prototypes that can be presented to customers for feedback.
  • Collaboratively identify the best means to visually depict the intermediate as well as final data analytics results in ways to provide effective process for mining new insights and assisting in decision making for solving complex problems.
  • Apply design and data analysis techniques to organize the presentation of data in visually innovative ways to make it easier to understand, insightful, and actionable by end users.
  • Manage a repository of re-usable data visualization templates and views.
  • Design, develop, & deploy application components.
  • Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Communicate development status and escalate issues to management.
  • Provide ad hoc reporting as requested by staff.
  • Ensure the integrity of data.
  • Other duties as assigned.
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s Degree or higher in business or technology field, with a focus in data analytics preferred.
Skills/Experience: 
  • (Equivalent certifications acceptable if work experience supports functional expertise in this area).
  • Minimum 4-7 years of professional work experience working in research, data analysis, data systems with experience working with data visualizations and SQL structured database systems.
  • Strong business acumen. Experience working within the retail, consumer package goods industry or related fields through a consulting or advertising firm is highly desirable but not necessary.
  • Thorough understanding how to assess the relationships between consumers, marketing, financial and operational data.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft office, relational databases and content management software is required
  • Experience working with statistical applications (SAS, R, SPSS, Python, XLSTAT, etc.)
  • Experience working with data visualization tools (ggplot, Tableau, PowerBI, GIS, etc.)
  • Demonstrated aptitude for learning new software and tools for synthesizing information.
  • Experience managing 3rd party behavioral data sets (mapping and appending to current data bases) to provide additional insights, visualizations.
  • Knowledge of Non-Profit structures and operations preferred
  • Confident delivering results to a variety of audiences with different backgrounds and experience
  • Sound business ethics, consistency between words and actions and a history of building trust with others.
  • Strong results-orientation, initiative, sense of urgency and reliability.
  • Outstanding interpersonal, communication, relationship-building and presentation skills.
  • Must thrive in a highly competitive, dynamic industry environment
Compensation/Benefits: 

Salary: $84,000.00 - $90,000.00

Organization Info

YMCA of the USA

Overview
Headquarters: 
Chicago, IL, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1983
About Us
Mission: 

The YMCA mission is: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) is the national resource office for the Y, one of the nation's leading nonprofits strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Across the U.S., 2,700 Ys engage 22 million men, women and children – of all ages, incomes and backgrounds – to nurture the potential of children and teens, improve the nation's health and well-being and provide opportunities to give back and support neighbors. Anchored in more than 10,000 communities, the Y has the longstanding relationships and physical presence needed not just to promise, but also to deliver, lasting personal and social change.

Programs: 
  1. YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: Nurturing the potential of children and teens
  2. HEALTHY LIVING: Improving the nation’s health and well-being
  3. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Giving back and providing support to neighbors

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
May 9 2018
Active Until: 
Jun 9 2018
Hiring Organization: 
YMCA of the USA
industry: 
Nonprofit