Fast Facts

WGU is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to join its College Analytics team, where you'll leverage your data expertise to shape strategic decisions and improve student outcomes in a mission-driven environment.

Responsibilities: Lead complex analytics projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor colleagues, and communicate insights effectively to drive data-informed decision making.

Skills: Proficiency in Tableau and Power BI, strong SQL capabilities, and expertise in statistical analysis and data modeling are essential for this role.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in a related field are required, along with advanced SQL and data visualization skills.

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, United States; in-office position

Compensation: $106700 - $165400 / Annually

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Professional 312Pay Range: $106,700.00 - $165,400.00

Job Description

What’s in it for you?

If you’re passionate about making a real difference with your work—and want to see the impact of your analysis shape better outcomes for students across the country—you’ll feel right at home at WGU. You’ll join a collaborative, mission-driven team where your insights will drive big decisions and long-term strategies. Plus, you’ll be working in a place that genuinely values innovation, lifelong learning, and helping each other grow.

About the IAR and College Analytics Team

The Institutional Analytics and Research (IAR) team partners across the university to turn data into better outcomes for students. Within IAR, the College Analytics team supports academic leaders with high-impact insights, predictive models, and strategic planning tools. Our focus areas include:

•  Closed Loop Analytics: Helping teams plan, execute, and evaluate initiatives using data-informed tools.
• Driver Analytics: Identifying the key levers that influence student success.
• Targets & Trajectories: Defining measurable goals and long-term outcomes for academic planning.

The Role: Lead Data Analyst

As a Lead Data Analyst on the College Analytics team, you’ll be a strategic partner, technical expert, and mentor. You’ll lead documentation of analytics and research needs for high-complexity projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive the adoption of data visualization standards. Your work will help WGU stay student-focused and data-driven.

What You’ll Do

• Lead complex analytics projects and translate user needs into actionable data solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop data pipelines and visualizations.
• Solve challenging data issues and promote best practices for data quality.
• Mentor team members and support strategic planning.
• Communicate insights clearly to partners and leadership.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Statistics, Decision Intelligence, Research, Learning Science, or Behavioral/Cognitive Psychology. [IAR Lead D...Analyst 1]
• Advanced SQL proficiency (queries, subqueries, joins, aggregation, performance tuning).
• Highly proficient in Tableau and Power BI for data visualization.
• Expertise in conceptual and logical data modeling (dimensional models, star/snowflake schema, slowly changing dimensions).
• Experience with descriptive statistics, causal analysis, inference, forecasting methods, and classification algorithms.

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.

Work Location: 

• This is a full-time, in-office position at WGU’s headquarters in Salt Lake City, UT. You’ll work side-by-side with a multidisciplinary team of analysts, researchers, and educators committed to data-informed innovation.

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Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.