Business Intelligence Analyst - People Practices Analytics

Job Description

The Ideal candidate would have experience in the following:

• Strategic thought partnership – Someone who isn’t just reporting numbers but helps the business think differently about how we work. They should connect dots across Recruiting, HR, Talent Management, and DEI to influence strategy.
• Data integration & insight creation – Can pull together data from multiple systems (Workday, CMIC, Qualtrics, Eightfold, etc) and turn it into meaningful insights.
• People perspective – Brings a people mindset and understands how to attract and retain talent; can surface patterns to help prioritize where to focus our efforts.
• Clear storytelling & influence – Takes complex data and makes it actionable for leaders; creates visuals, dashboards, and narratives that drive decision making.
• Change leadership – Helps elevate how the People Practices team uses data, drives adoption of tools, improves data quality, and pushes DPR to be more disciplined and insight-driven.
• Trusted advisor – Builds relationships with HR, Talent Management, Recruiting, Total Rewards, and DEI so people proactively seek their input on strategy and pursuits.
• People Practices Insight: Deep understanding of people practices and employee experience metrics; proven ability to connect data to business impact.

Responsibilities
 

Strategic Partnership / Roadmap / Execution / Delivery

• Develop and maintain Strategic Partnerships with business stakeholders and a deep understanding of their people, processes, tools, and goals.
• Drive strategic conversations with stakeholders to fully understand and document pain points and business requirements, define the key insights and metrics required to improve business processes, and develop appropriate business intelligence datasets and analytics.
• Create, maintain, and execute on data analytics roadmap for stakeholder groups in alignment with overall goals and objectives.
• Participate in and collaborate with the Integrated Workgroup and functional teams to align Data Analytics (DA) efforts and resources with business goals and objectives.
• Identify opportunities for business process optimization and technical optimization and collaborate with stakeholders, as required, for implementation.
• Translate business problems into technical requirements and communicate technical solutions in business terms.

Visualization / Storytelling / Data Modeling

• Be responsible for taking data analysis and insights capability to the next level by working with data infrastructure to ensure the data is accessible; working with stakeholders to understand and align on business requirements; and recommending and developing new reporting and actionable insights to improve business processes and inform strategic conversations.
• Create complex data models in visualization tool, and make transformations as needed.
• Query Data Warehouse using SQL to quickly analyze datasets; clean data as required.
• Identify potential new datasets to add to the Data Warehouse and/or potential new integrations between source systems and the Data Warehouse.
• Work with Technical Data Analysts to build requirements for views in data modeling tool (dbt) and the data warehouse (Snowflake).
• Create and maintain dashboards and apps and perform ad-hoc analyses as required.
• Identify root cause of data integrity issues (report, DFL, data warehouse, source system).
• Complete impact analysis on reports when changes are made to source systems or tables upstream.
• Identify, quantify, and communicate impacts to stakeholders and customers.

• Follow, implement, and enhance data security and governance guidelines.

Collaboration / Training / SME

• Identify opportunities for data collaboration and integration between disciplines.
• Coordinate alignment, as applicable, across other Technology and innovation (T&I) groups.
• Identify opportunities for AI/ML/Data Science efforts and work with those teams on project delivery.

• Train end-users on how to use and interpret information/insights on deployed dashboards/reports.
• Identify opportunities to improve data literacy throughout DPR.

• Operate as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the People Practices business across data availability, quality, processes, and technology for all HR, Total Rewards, and Talent functions. 
• Maintain understanding of our data pipeline architecture to be able to articulate why we use it and its benefits/limitations for end users.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related, plus five (5) years of experience in the application of data to solve problems, or Bachelor’s degree in one of the above plus seven (7) years of experience.
• Construction Experience including industry trends, terminology, and typical processes is strongly preferred.
• Human Resources, Talent Management, Recruiting, and/or Training experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with and first-hand knowledge of HR Tools, specifically Workday, strongly preferred.
• Passion for the use of data and business intelligence principles and their ability to optimize business outcomes.
• Proven track record of translating business pain points into data requirements and identifying and solving complex problems with data.
• Proven analytic skills, including data mining, evaluation, analysis, and visualization.
• Ability to create data models and understand dependencies between source systems.
• Experience in data visualization/BI tools – Power BI required - including creating and maintaining dataflows.
• Experience with consuming APIs from the client side including REST and GraphQL.
• Experience with SQL scripting required.
• Advanced business acumen and working knowledge of typical company operations, including how business decisions are evaluated, and the ability to apply this understanding to identify opportunities for improved decision making.
• Excellent organizational, leadership, interpersonal, communication (written, verbal and visual), and analytical skills are needed.
• Demonstrated success in building trusted relationships with internal/external clients and customers.
• A drive to do what it takes to get the job done, including taking on different roles and responsibilities and adapting to changing environments.

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.

Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers.