[Hiring] Senior Business Intelligence Analyst @Mathematica Inc

Role Description

Mathematica is looking for an experienced Business Intelligence Analyst to join the Data Solutions team to design and deliver scalable, high-performing business intelligence and data solutions. This role combines deep expertise in Power BI and/or Tableau with strong data engineering, data modeling, and cloud capabilities to build solutions spanning data pipelines and data marts through semantic models, dashboards, reports, and visualizations. The ideal candidate is a hands-on senior engineer who can independently solve complex data and BI challenges while providing technical leadership to project teams.

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise BI and analytics solutions using Power BI and Tableau, translating business requirements into scalable, intuitive, production-ready products.
• Design supporting data models and data marts, including dimensional models, star/snowflake schemas, semantic models, and aggregation strategies optimized for analytics and reporting.
• Build and maintain production data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using SQL and, where appropriate, Python, .NET, AWS-native services, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Optimize end-to-end BI performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks across dashboards, semantic models, queries, data models, pipelines, databases/warehouses, and cloud infrastructure.
• Apply software engineering and DevOps practices, including version control where supported, testing and data validation, CI/CD and deployment automation where applicable, release management, monitoring, and production support.
• Lead technical design and architecture discussions, prototypes, proofs of concept, and architecture reviews, ensuring solutions meet scalability, security, accessibility, maintainability, data quality, and cost requirements.
• Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to translate complex business and analytical needs into effective BI, data engineering, and data modeling solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship through code, dashboard, and data model reviews; establish development standards and best practices; and guide teams through complex technical challenges.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the BI and data stack, identify root causes, and implement solutions that improve reliability and performance.
• Support project planning and technical solutioning by estimating effort, identifying risks and dependencies, evaluating technologies, and contributing to proposals and implementation approaches.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience developing production BI, analytics, data engineering, or related data solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Power BI and/or Tableau, with advanced proficiency in at least one and ability to independently develop, deploy, and support complex BI solutions.
• Advanced SQL and relational database skills, including complex queries, transformations, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing dimensional models, star/snowflake schemas, semantic models, data marts, and aggregation strategies for BI and analytics.
• Hands-on experience building and troubleshooting ETL/ELT production processes and data pipelines across multiple data sources.
• Experience with AWS data solutions, including cloud storage, databases, data integration/processing, security, and scalable architectures.
• Ability to diagnose and optimize performance across the BI and data stack, from dashboards and queries to pipelines and data warehouses.
• Experience with software engineering practices, including version control where supported, testing, CI/CD, release management, deployment, and production support.
• Strong technical leadership, analytical, and communication skills, including leading technical design, mentoring developers, establishing best practices, and collaborating across technical and business teams.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience developing data pipelines, transformation frameworks, APIs, utilities, or data processing applications using Python and/or .NET.
• Experience with Snowflake and/or Databricks, including data engineering, transformation, modeling, performance optimization, and analytics workloads.
• Experience with additional BI and analytics platforms such as Looker, Qlik, Cognos, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud-based data warehouses, lakehouses, data lakes, and analytics platforms.
• Experience with modern data transformation and orchestration frameworks and cloud-native data integration services.
• Experience with data management, metadata, lineage, data governance, and data quality practices.
• Experience working with healthcare or public-sector data, including claims, beneficiaries, provider, enrollment, program, or quality-measurement data.
• Ability to administer Tableau server.

Benefits

• Anticipated base salary of $105,000 - $135,000 annually.
• Eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance.

Company Description

Mathematica applies expertise at the intersection of data, methods, policy, and practice to improve well-being around the world. We collaborate closely with public- and private-sector partners to translate big questions into deep insights that improve programs, refine strategies, and enhance understanding using data science and analytics.