Western Governors University

Western Governors University

Senior Analytics Operations Specialist

Salt Lake City, UT · Senior · Full-time

Work authorization required$100k-$150kDetected 11 hours ago
DatabricksCI/CDMachine LearningData EngineeringMLOpsProject ManagementAgileUnityResearchCollaboration

About the role

  • 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.
  • You will act as a connector between technical and non-technical teams, helping transform complex work into clear priorities, actionable insights, and measurable value.
  • Visa Sponsorship While we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, WGU is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and continuously improve the operating processes that govern analytics work across IAR, including demand intake, prioritization, stakeholder engagement, resource planning, delivery tracking, and portfolio management.
  • Create visibility into departmental work by developing frameworks that help leaders understand pipelines, priorities, capacity, expected business value, and delivery status.
  • Define and enforce standard operating procedures, service level agreements, templates, governance practices, and analytics standards that drive consistency across teams.
  • Partner closely with Data Engineering, Enterprise Technology, MLOps, and Product teams to improve data operations, issue management, observability, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Develop measurement frameworks that help quantify the impact of analytics initiatives, support prioritization decisions, and demonstrate the value created by IAR across WGU.
  • Our interview experience is designed to give qualified candidates the opportunity to show their best work through meaningful conversations and collaboration.
  • This is not a traditional data analyst role focused on building reports and dashboards.
  • In this role, you will drive the operational excellence behind analytics and research initiatives by developing scalable processes, advancing data governance practices, improving knowledge management, measuring business impact, and ensuring teams have the tools and frameworks needed to deliver extraordinary outcomes.
  • At WGU, our mission drives everything we do, including how we hire.

Requirements

  • experience and training
  • It does not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications that are required of the employee to do this job.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field.
  • 5 or more years of experience in Analytics with demonstrated experience in SDLC and Agile/Scrum.
  • Experience with enterprise data governance and catalog solutions such as Collibra, Ataccama, or similar platforms.
  • 3 or more years of experience in the definition and execution of workflows in several of the following areas: CI/CD, MLOps, Data Management, Data Governance, Data Engineering, Analytics Processes and Infrastructure, Data Quality, and Data Science.

Compensation

  • $100,000.00 - $150,000.00

Benefits

  • Drive department-wide capability building through onboarding improvements, knowledge sharing, communities of practice, stakeholder education, learning resources, and process enablement initiatives.
  • 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.

Company info

  • We thoughtfully review every application and invite forward the candidates whose experience and potential best align with the role and our mission.

Equal opportunity

  • Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.
  • Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • While we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, WGU is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
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