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Data & Analytics Lead - Oakwood GA Locals
2 Rounds of Interviews: 1st round virtual, 2nd onsite panel
LOCAL to OAKWOOD, GA - 2-3 days onsite
6 months CTH - No sponsorship
Salary band: Around 155K , 10% bonus (CONFIRM CANDIDATES ARE OKAY WITH THIS CONVERSION SALARY)
$60/hr W2 max 
 
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
 
Do NOT prioritize candidates who are primarily:
Pure Power BI Developers
 
Executive Summary
This is one of the first strategic hires within the newly formed Data & Analytics organization and will serve as the primary business-facing analytics leader. While the title is "Lead," this is currently an individual contributor role with significant influence across the business and oversight of consultant-delivered work.
The biggest takeaway from the intake is that executive presence, business partnership, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder management are more important than being a hands-on technical expert. They need someone to be able to walk into a room with business leaders, understand operational challenges, prioritize analytics initiatives, and drive adoption.
 
What the Role Actually Does
Many candidates will misunderstand this position if recruiters focus solely on Power BI or reporting experience.
This is NOT primarily a dashboard developer role.
This person will act as the bridge between:
Business LeadersData & Analytics TeamConsultants Building Solutions
Responsibilities include:
Business Partnership
  • Meet with senior stakeholders
  • Understand operational challenges
  • Gather requirements
  • Identify reporting gaps
  • Define business outcomes
Prioritization & Roadmapping
  • Evaluate competing requests
  • Determine business value
  • Establish priorities
  • Build analytics roadmaps
  • Sequence initiatives appropriately
Requirements & Solution Design
  • Work with data engineering teams
  • Ensure required data exists
  • Help define reporting datasets
  • Support KPI definitions
  • Translate business needs into analytics solutions
Deployment & Adoption
Once dashboards and reports are delivered, this person is responsible for:
  • Conducting training
  • Explaining KPI calculations
  • Driving adoption
  • Measuring utilization
  • Ensuring the business receives value
Success is not just building dashboards.
Success is getting the organization to actually use them.
 
Key Business Problem
This is arguably the most important piece of the entire intake.
Client has:
  • Significant reporting needs
  • Minimal standardization today
  • Manual processes in many areas
  • Large demand for analytics
They effectively need approximately twenty dashboards immediately.
The challenge is not building one dashboard.
The challenge is:
  • Understanding all business needs
  • Determining priority
  • Understanding expected ROI
  • Building a roadmap
  • Coordinating delivery
Candidates who have only gathered requirements for one-off reporting projects will likely struggle.
The ideal candidate has owned analytics portfolios and prioritized enterprise-scale reporting initiatives.
 
Technology Environment
Core Stack
Snowflake
  • Enterprise data warehouse
  • Strategic data platform
Power BI
  • Standard reporting platform
  • Dashboard delivery tool
Important Concept: Semantic Layer
Travis specifically discussed the layer between:
Snowflake → Semantic Models/Data Sets → Power BI
Desired candidates should understand:
  • Data modeling
  • Semantic layers
  • Reporting datasets
  • KPI architecture
  • Business-facing analytics design
They do NOT need to be the strongest engineer in the