Business Intelligence Specialist - Lead - 10282026-82332

State of Tennessee Job Information Opening Date/Time 10/28/2026 12:00AM Central Time Closing Date/Time 11/10/2026 11:59PM Central Time Salary (Monthly) $6,610.00 - $8,539.00 Salary (Annually) $79,320.00 - $102,468.00 Job Type Full-Time City, State Location Nashville, TN Department Finance and Administration LOCATION OF (2) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADINISTRATION, DAVIDSON COUNTY This position requires a criminal background check and CJIS Fingerprints.

Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position. This position is designed as Hybrid (In office and Remote).

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree and five years of experience in business intelligence or data warehousing. Associate degree in a related field may substitute for the bachelor's. Additional certifications and advanced experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.

Under general supervision, this role leads advanced Business Intelligence work and supports a team responsible for designing, developing, governing, and supporting enterprise business intelligence and reporting solutions. The incumbent will lead requirements discovery and document business needs into actionable data and reporting strategies, while ensuring that solutions align with customer need, data accuracy, security and data protection, data governance, and performance standards.

The role ensures delivery of accurate and trusted data insights that support operational and strategic data driven decision-making.

Strategy Governance and Stakeholder Alignment Leads the development and implementation of business intelligence and reporting strategies that align with organizational priorities and enterprise technology direction. Facilitates requirements-gathering sessions with business stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and technical teams to define, document, validate, and prioritize business outcomes, reporting needs, key performance indicators, and data requirements.

Translates business requirements into solution concepts, use cases, data requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans. Coordinates competing priorities across business areas and recommends sequencing, scope, and delivery approaches based on value, risk, complexity, and available resources. Acts as a liaison between technical and non-technical teams and communicates status, risks, decisions, dependencies, and recommendations to leadership and project stakeholders.

Evaluates and recommends BI tools, platforms, and practices to maintain a scalable, secure, and strategically aligned BI ecosystem. Architecture Data Modeling and Integration Leads architecture and design decisions for data warehouses, semantic models, dashboards, reports, scorecards, and related BI services. Designs and governs logical and physical data models, including facts, dimensions, relationships, business definitions, and data structures that support reliable reporting and analytics.

Oversees ETL solutions, including source-system analysis, data transformation, scheduling, dependencies, notifications, and operational controls. Ensures BI solutions integrate appropriately with source systems, enterprise platforms, data services, and productivity tools while preserving security and maintainability. Applies data quality, privacy, security, configuration management, change control, and documentation standards across the BI lifecycle.

Reporting Analytics and Performance Oversees the design and delivery of dashboards, reports, scorecards, and analytical products that provide actionable information to executives, managers, clients, and other decision makers. Ensures reporting solutions are usable, accessible, accurate, performant, and aligned with approved requirements and business definitions.

Guides the use of data analysis, trend analysis, predictive analytics, data mining, and other appropriate analytical methods to support operational and strategic outcomes. Leads performance tuning for data models, ETL processes, queries, dashboards, and reporting platforms; monitors system health, data integrity, usage, and process failures.

Oversees testing, validation, deployment, release coordination, and post-implementation review for BI solutions. Team Leadership and Delivery Leads people and teams toward project and product goals; coordinates work plans, estimates effort, manages dependencies, and optimizes resource utilization. Mentors, coaches, and cross-trains BI staff in architecture, requirements analysis, data modeling, Tableau, Power BI, SQL, ETL, reporting design, testing, documentation, and support practices.

Provides consultation and technical guidance to business users and development resources on BI capabilities, reporting options, data interpretation, and best practices. Identifies risks, issues, data anomalies, and process weaknesses; directs root-cause analysis and coordinates resolution of complex BI problems. Documents business processes, data flows, use cases, decisions, standards, and solution designs to support knowledge transfer, maintainability, auditability, and long-term operations.

Competencies: Customer Focus Decision Quality Persuades Directs Work Plans and Aligns Knowledges: N/A Skills: Systems Analysis Judgment and Decision Making Critical Thinking Complex Problem Solving Reading Comprehension Abilities: Information Ordering Mathematical Reasoning Perceptual Speed Written Comprehension Visualization

BI platforms ETL tools SQL Query languages MS Office