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IAR Senior Data Analyst

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY

SALT LAKE CITY, UTJob$91–136K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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Compensation
$91–136K/yr
Location
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Senior Data Analyst partners with stakeholders across Western Governors University to translate complex data into actionable insights that inform strategy, improve operations, and support university-wide initiatives. The role builds and optimizes reporting and business intelligence solutions, investigates data issues, and communicates findings to influence decisions. It also collaborates with Data Engineering and contributes to data governance and analytics standards.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Advanced SQLPython or R

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Related Discipline5 Years Related Experience

Full job description

If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. 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. The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is: Grade: Professional 310 Pay Range: $91,000.00 - $136,400.00 Job Description At WGU, data plays a critical role in advancing student success and driving informed decision-making across the university. As a Senior Data Analyst, you will serve as a trusted analytics partner, translating complex data into actionable insights that influence strategy, improve operations, and support university-wide initiatives. This role is ideal for an experienced analytics professional who enjoys solving business problems, building scalable reporting solutions, and helping stakeholders make confident, data-driven decisions. What You'll Do * Partner with business leaders, faculty, and cross-functional teams to understand business needs, translate user stories into technical requirements, and deliver analytics solutions that drive action. * Answer complex business questions by leveraging data from multiple domains and identifying the most appropriate data sources to support analysis, forecasting, research, and experimentation. * Design, develop, maintain, and optimize dashboards, reports, and business intelligence solutions that provide meaningful insights to stakeholders. * Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support the development of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and scalable analytics solutions. * Analyze and investigate complex data issues, improving the accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability of university data assets. * Communicate findings through compelling data storytelling, visualizations, presentations, and recommendations that influence decision-making. * Contribute to data governance, documentation, data modeling, and the continuous improvement of analytics tools, standards, and best practices. What You'll Bring * Bachelor's degree in a related discipline. * 5 years of related experience in Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Statistics, Decision Intelligence, Research, Learning Science, or Behavioral/Cognitive Psychology. * Advanced SQL proficiency, including experience with complex queries, subqueries, joins, aggregations, common table expressions (CTEs), window functions, performance tuning, views, and data modification statements. * Proficiency in Python or R, with the ability to automate, transform, analyze, and... For full info follow application link. Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, vetera n status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,869 open Data Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$91–136K/yr
  • Utah median$80–113K/yr43 salary ranges
  • US median$90–134K/yr3,076 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $114K, is 20% above the Utah median midpoint ($95K) — in the middle half of Data Analyst salary ranges in Utah.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 71 open Data Analyst jobs in Utah and 4,869 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Utah
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Data Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (3,620 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,235 of the 4,869 open Data Analyst jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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