Data Visualization & Democratization, Expert

20 Feb 2025

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JOB DESCRIPTION

The Data and Analytics (D&A) team will be responsible for performing detailed data analysis, source to target dashboard and data product designs, data profiling, and metadata management in support of new development /implementation or enhancement of existing data products. The

Consultant, Data Visualization Analyst will report to the of Director, Data Visualization and Democratization. In this role you will be a key member of an elite team to work with the analytics teams, data teams, and business stakeholders to accelerate data-driven transformation by designing, developing, and driving adoption of easy-to-use business user self-service access to single source of truth business insights, across all stakeholders' enterprise-wide in Blue Shield of California, largely thorough self-serve dashboard platforms like Tableau. This role will combine both "art" and "science" expertise to designing an entire enterprise-wide portfolio of stylistically and functionally consistent data visualization systems and interconnected dashboards that are efficient at querying the underlying data stores, responsive to user input, and of clear value to business stakeholders as measured through adoption. This role blends the well-designed visualization with data analysis and change management expertise to accelerate our data-driven transformation journey to move from "data checking decisions" to "data making decisions".

In this role, you will:

  • Own a set of data visualizations that may need to be continuously evolved to increase level of sophistication and/or answer new business questions, but remain simple to use
  • Partner with analytical teams and business stakeholders to understand what metrics/information would be most useful to uncovering insights and accelerate meeting business goals
  • Work with Data management team under D&A to design the necessary datasets balancing pre-aggregation versus live query in terms of flexibility and response time
  • Demonstrate the business savviness and stakeholder management skills to juggle against multiple, often competing priorities, to deliver maximum value
  • Design, as needed, for multiple levels of seniority from business analysts to C-level executives, with a flair for extracting "stories" or "insights" from the data
  • Apply world-class design skills to enable ease-of-use and simplicity; success judged through adoption/usage which this role will be responsible to track
  • Stay abreast of emerging business intelligence trends, technologies, tools, and approaches
  • Be comfortable working both top-down in terms of a specific hypothesis/questions to answer as well as bottom-up exploratory approaches
  • Implement appropriate views or filters to ensure display of any sensitive data is enabled only for the targeted audiences
  • Build and maintain a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and agility
  • Mentor and provide guidance to peers and junior staff

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Requires a bachelor's degree preferably in computer science, statistics, mathematics, economics, or equivalent experience
  • Requires at least 8 years' experience in data analysis
  • 5+ years of data/analytics experience, with a strong focus on data storytelling & visualization
  • Significant experience with business intelligence / visualization tools; Tableau desktop certification a strong plus
  • Possesses excellent design skills with a bent for creating "easy to use" interfaces leveraging the full capability set of the platforms; drives adoption/usage
  • Deep experience with both on-premise approaches but also visualization approaches in a Cloud environment, in particular Tableau on Snowflake in Azure
  • Working knowledge of descriptive statistics (correlations, trends, distributions, etc.) to be able to profile / showcase key insights from datasets; understands how to provide relevant drill-up, drill-down, filter capabilities
  • Strong SQL skills and database expertise; knowledge of constructing effective queries across multiple datasets (all join types, nested queries, etc.)
  • Strong written, verbal and presentation abilities; exceptionally clear communicator and influencer; can speak not only to technical audiences but also key business partners at varying levels of seniority
  • Strong design skills, with a focus on usability, equity, and accessibility
  • Extremely detailed oriented; is proud of his or her end products and can be a role model for the visualization team
  • Has grit; energized by challenges
  • Excited by the prospects of using data & analytics to improve the lives of people
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision
  • Prior Healthcare experience is a plus

Pay Range

The pay range for this role is: 118800.00 to 178200.00 for California.

Note

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

  • ID: #49320725
  • State: California Oakland 94601 Oakland USA
  • City: Oakland
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-02-20
  • Deadline: 2023-04-20
  • Category: Et cetera