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Business Intelligence Support Analyst at Alabama Power… · Atlanta
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Job Description
Business Intelligence Analyst
In office requirement: 3/2 in office rotation schedule – W, Th, Fri even months; W, Th, odd months
Organization: Infrastructure Data Reporting Metrics, Infrastructure Services
Position Summary
Infrastructure Data, Reporting & Metrics (IDRM) serves as the Infrastructure Services (IS) organization's centralized team for trusted data, reporting, metrics, and analytics. IDRM partners with infrastructure leaders, platform teams, and operational stakeholders to deliver consistent reporting, improve data quality, automate manual data collection processes, and provide actionable insights that support business and operational decision-making.
The Business Intelligence Analyst will serve as a senior-level reporting and analytics professional responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining reporting solutions across Infrastructure Services. This individual will work closely with data owners, operational leaders, and technical teams to transform complex infrastructure data into meaningful insights through Power BI and related analytics tools.
The ideal candidate combines advanced Power BI expertise with strong analytical skills, an understanding of operational or technology-focused environments, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable reporting solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting & Analytics
- Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions supporting the Infrastructure Services organization and processes.
- Deliver executive-level, operational, asset, risk, and performance reporting.
- Build scalable data models and semantic layers that support consistent reporting across multiple stakeholders.
- Develop KPI and metric reporting that tells the Infrastructure Services value story.
- Transform large, complex data sets into meaningful and actionable insights.
Business Engagement
- Partner with infrastructure leaders and operational teams to understand reporting requirements and business objectives.
- Consult with stakeholders to define reporting solutions, performance metrics, and visualization approaches.
- Present findings and recommendations to leadership audiences.
Data Quality & Governance Support
- Assist with identifying data quality issues and inconsistencies across reporting sources.
- Partner with Data Architecture and Data Governance resources to improve data accuracy and reporting standards.
- Advocate for trusted data sources and reporting best practices.
Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Reduce manual reporting processes through automation and process improvements.
- Support integration of new data sources into reporting solutions.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting efficiency and scalability.
Team & Organizational Support
- Contribute to the Infrastructure Services Reporting Center of Excellence.
- Assist with reporting standards, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
- Mentor other analysts on reporting best practices and Power BI capabilities.
Job Requirements (Education, Experience, Knowledge and skills)
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, or data analysis.
- 3+ years of advanced Power BI development experience.
- Expertise in:
- Power BI
- DAX
- Power Query & QueryM language
- Data Modeling
- SQL
- Excel
- Experience working with large, complex data sets from multiple sources.
- Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into reporting solutions.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to understand the needs of different users groups and switch between executive and more detailed technical views
- Experience presenting analytics and reporting results to leadership audiences.
- Proficiency in applying AI techniques for predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and data-driven decision-making.
- Knowledge of AI-driven data integration and data cleansing tools to automate and optimize data management tasks.
- Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) for unstructured data analysis and information extraction.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting:
- Infrastructure Services
- Asset Management
- Service Management
- IT Operations
- Experience with:
- Power Automate, Power Apps, PowerFx, and other Power Platform related apps and features
- Microsoft Fabric
- DataBricks
- Azure Data Services
- Python
- API-based integrations
- Kibana
- Grafana
- Splunk
- Familiarity with:
- CMDB data
- Asset lifecycle management
- Helix, ServiceNow, or similar operational platforms
- Experience developing automated reporting solutions.
- Experience delivering reporting and analytics solutions through a structured lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing and validation, deployment, and ongoing support and enhancement.
Competencies
- Strong communication, consulting, and leadership skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and influence data-driven culture.
- Continuous self-learner
- Effectively organizes tasks, manages multiple priorities, and able to meet tight deadlines
- Superb diagnostic, troubleshooting, analysis, and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated, takes initiative, is proactive, and habitually removes obstacles for success
- Curious and creative, always questioning, and never satisfied by the status quo
- Assess impact and quantify risk to ensure appropriate business decisions are made
- Demonstrate our values of safety first, intentional inclusion, act with integrity, and superior performance, and the ability to provide and accept feedback.
About the Team
Southern Company Services
About the Company
About Southern Company
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy solutions provider with national capabilities, a fiber optics network and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience and sustainability, we are taking action to meet customers' and communities' needs while advancing our goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture has been recognized by a variety of organizations, earning the company awards and recognitions that reflect Our Values and dedication to service. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com.
Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf. Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.
Southern Company is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.