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Known as “The Relationship Company®,” we define success as a measure of the relationships we’ve built over time. In everything that we do, we know that delivering a friendly and helpful interaction makes for a better experience for everyone involved. That’s the power of “nice”. At Western National, nice is something we work to bring to every person and organization with whom we partner and serve.\nDoes this opportunity interest you?\nWestern National is seeking a Business Analyst IV to join our Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team!\nThe individual in this role will have the opportunity to lead the collaborative execution, management, and development of the requirements lifecycle and portions of the Business Analyst framework across the enterprise. The ideal candidate has strong analytical and communication skills, experience working with complex data environments, and the ability to understand both business processes and technical data solutions. This individual performs business analysis for higher-complexity tasks and higher-impact business process and software application modifications while guiding Business Analyst and Product Team members through best practices, requirements analysis, planning, and estimation.\nWhat are the responsibilities and opportunities of this role?\nCollaborates in ticket intake analysis and application troubleshooting. \nParticipates in work refinement and estimation processes with Product Team members. \nParticipates in troubleshooting, issue reporting, resolution, and communication of urgent production issues. \nPartners with product and change control teams to ensure quality deliverables that provide customer value. \nCreates and maintains documentation defined as important by the Product Team or company, including support processes, team processes, and system documentation. \nSupports noncore responsibilities as needed to ensure timely delivery of work to customers, including testing, road mapping, and directing deployment. \nCollaborates across Product Teams and the enterprise to direct requirements activities for transformational business process and software implementation initiatives of higher impact and risk. \nApplies, develops, and implements a comprehensive toolkit of advanced Business Analyst skills and techniques. \nDemonstrates Business Analyst competencies and skill sets focused on creating strategic value for new and future applications. \nExecutes Business Analyst best practices as defined in the requirements lifecycle with minimal guidance from management. \nApplies in-depth expertise to troubleshoot root causes and resolve core problems across the enterprise that affect a wide range of business processes and applications. \nIdentifies and develops opportunities to improve processes and best practices across Product Teams and directs teams and leadership in implementing process improvements. \nPlans, designs, researches, and analyzes strategic business plans, correlates results to identify patterns, and proposes solutions across Product Teams. \nDevelops metrics and related reporting tools to improve Business Analyst performance against standards. \nMentors and shares knowledge with other team members. \nIdentifies and leads opportunities to improve or add value to enterprise-level business processes and applications using business cases, metrics, process improvement methodologies, and project management practices to drive change. \nDirects the evolution of team-level development best practices, standards, and policies while considering implications for work activities. \nMobilizes action to resolve problems and improve processes at the Product Team and cross-team levels. \nUtilizes specialized knowledge, experience, and creative resources to identify a wide range of solutions and draw out solutions from Product Team members. \nGuides teams in evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of proposed solutions. \nConsistently acts according to our customer experience standards, including responding quickly, maintaining a positive attitude, building rapport, demonstrating empathy, managing the customer’s expectations, using the proper communication channel for the situation, and taking ownership to ensure the customer’s issue is resolved. \nPerforms special projects and other duties as assigned.\nRequirements\nWhat are the must-have qualifications for a candidate?\nStrong SQL skills, including querying, joins, filtering, aggregation, and data validation.\nExperience with data warehouses, data lakes, relational databases, and reporting environments.\nUnderstanding of ETL/ELT processes, APIs, data integration, and data movement.\nFamiliarity with data modeling concepts, including relational, dimensional, and analytical models.\nExperience with data quality rules, profiling, reconciliation, and validation.\nFamiliarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or Databricks.\nExperience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Visio, or similar platforms\nExcellent analytical and problem-solving skills when dealing with ambiguity. \nAbility to work independently and carry assignments through completion. \nStrong attention to detail. \nStrong negotiation skills. \nAbility to lead change and positively influence people and processes. \nAbility to effectively collaborate with others as part of a team. \nInquisitive mindset with a strong ability and desire for continuous learning. \nStrong organizational and multitasking skills. \nDemonstrated advanced organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities of higher impact and risk within specified timeframes. \nDemonstrated ability to consistently communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with technical and nontechnical audiences across all levels of the organization. \nProficient use of various computer equipment and Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. \nProficient use of communication and collaboration tools, including JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Teams, and Mural. \nExpert understanding of supported domain and context technologies, systems, and processes. \nAbility to read and understand scripting and coding languages with working knowledge and ability to write simple scripts. \nAbility to write intermediate SQL queries with a proficient understanding of databases, data models, and related constructs. \nExpertise in Agile and various development methodologies, tools, and frameworks. \nWhat will our ideal candidate have?\nBachelor’s degree in business, information systems, computer science, data management, or a related field.\nExperience working with enterprise data, data warehouses, data lakes, reporting platforms, or data modernization initiatives.\nExperience working in Agile, hybrid, or structured project environments.\nTwelve-plus years of experience in IT or a related role. \n5-8 years 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However, the base pay offered may vary depending on the job-related knowledge, skills, credentials, and experience of each candidate as well as other factors such as the scope and location of the role. Candidates looking for compensation outside of the posted range are encouraged to apply and will be considered based on their individual qualifications and/or may be considered for other positions.\nCulture and Total Rewards\nWestern National has long been known as “The Relationship Company®” and caring for our employees is part of that relationship commitment. We value connectiveness, empowerment, and accountability, and we believe that our employees are our biggest asset.\nCurrently ranked as the 41st largest private company by revenue in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal), Western National has earned accolades year-over-year as an employer of choice and garnered multiple awards for wellness in the workplace. 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