Lead Data Visualization Developer

Summary

Join Excella as a Data Visualization Developer and create impactful reports and dashboards using Tableau and PowerBI. You will collaborate directly with clients to understand their needs, develop data visualizations, and ensure data accuracy. This role requires strong SQL skills and experience with business intelligence tools. Excella offers a flexible work environment, comprehensive benefits including parental leave, professional development opportunities, and a supportive culture. The ideal candidate is an analytical thinker with excellent communication skills and a passion for data visualization best practices. This is a growth opportunity within a leading provider of Agile software development and data and analytics solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years developing reports and dashboards using Business Intelligence Tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI)
• 3+ years writing simple to medium complexity SQL queries
• Understanding of relational databases structures (tables and relationships) in order to source effectively from these for reports and dashboards
• Be an analytical thinker and problem solver who can listen to a non-data person share a problem, and identify and package data to help them solve that issue
• Ability to write medium-complexity SQL queries
• Package large, complex datasets into intuitive, easy to use dashboards, reports, and decks that help decisions makers answer questions
• Be detail oriented, with a clear understanding of how to quality check reports and data pulls, due to the high visibility of the work
• Be skilled in managing work intake/requirements sessions, including mapping detailed documentation of requirements and tracking progress in shared collaboration tools (JIRA)
• Write clear, concise summaries of complex information and understand how to structure written communication for senior business stakeholders/executives
• Take a user-centered approach to developing data visualization products, like dashboards
• Be enthusiastic about learning about and using new features within tools like Tableau and PowerBI to ensure dashboards leverage the most up to date functionality
• Have a strong understanding of data visualization best practices, including chart selection, visual encodings, pre-attentive attributes, and Gestalt principles, and experience using those principles in the development of executive dashboards
• Seek and see the larger business context of their work, and identify opportunities to add value in complex and changing environments

Responsibilities

• Interact directly with client stakeholders (business or technical) to understand client stakeholder needs
• Use SQL queries to explore and understand data sources
• Create prototypes based upon stakeholder requirements in order to confirm the report or dashboard design meets the business need
• Create simple to complex reports and dashboards using visual analytics and business intelligence tools like Tableau and PowerBI
• Use SQL or other language to connect directly to data source for data quality checks and to ensure the numbers being represented in reports are accurate compared to source data
• Ensure the final product follows data visualization and design best practices, is automated where feasible, and is easily transitioned into the client's environment for ongoing maintenance
• Create and deliver end-user training and documentation on BI deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry or subject matter expertise (e.g., finance, employment, hospitality, digital analytics)
• Understanding of DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and the capabilities within the DORA capability catalog

Benefits

• Flexible work/life balance
• Home office allowance
• Commute reimbursement plan
• Top of industry medical, dental, and vision benefits with multiple options to choose from such as an employer-contributed health savings account, infertility coverage, and orthodontia
• 8 weeks of Parental Leave
• Discounted pet insurance
• Care.com membership with 3 back-up emergency child or elder care days annually
• Bonus eligibility starting day one
• 15 days of paid vacation
• 6 federal holidays
• 4 floating holidays
• TechEleX program providing multiple options to suit your technology needs, including Mac or PC devices and replacement every 3 years
• Annual Internet Reimbursement benefit of $25 per month
• 3 days of paid professional development every year, including travel and registration fees
• Employee wellness events
• HeadSpace membership
• Access to TalkSpace
• Mental health coverage through medical plans