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Description

Come Smile with Us!

Delta Dental of Iowa invites applicants for a Data Reporting Analyst III to transform enterprise data into actionable insights that support strategic decision-making, operational excellence, and business performance. You will partner closely with business and technology teams to define data requirements, develop scalable analytics solutions, and promote trusted, governed use of enterprise data. 

This is an opportunity to leverage modern data platforms, including Snowflake and Power BI, to design, develop, and maintain reporting and analytical solutions that deliver meaningful business value. You will serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by translating business challenges into data-driven solutions, supporting data literacy initiatives, and helping others understand and effectively use organizational data assets. Use your curiosity, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous learning while actively sharing knowledge and mentoring others on data, analytics, and emerging technologies.

Learn why Abhishek enjoys working on the Technology team. 

Why Delta Dental of Iowa?

For your smile. For your health. For your community.

At Delta Dental of Iowa, we're more than just a dental and vision insurance company. Improving health and wellness is at the center of everything we do. As a not-for-profit, we aim to build stronger communities by investing in actions that promote and improve health. Delta Dental of Iowa invests 40% of our dollars directly back into the communities we serve.

Come see why we are passionate about "Bringing Smiles" to our customers. Our team enjoys competitive pay and benefits, an awesome "One Team" approach, and a company culture that fosters "Exceptional Quality Service" and "Leadership at All Levels." Together, we can make a difference - not only in Iowa but across the country.

Essential Functions and Principal Accountabilities: 

Data Analytics & Solution Delivery

• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize analytics and reporting solutions using modern data platforms and visualization tools.
• Translate business requirements into scalable reporting, analytics, and self-service data solutions.
• Perform complex data analysis to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and actionable insights.
• Develop and maintain reusable analytics assets, dashboards, semantic models, and data visualizations.
• Ensure reporting solutions are accurate, consistent, and aligned with enterprise data standards.

Business Partnership & Consultation

• Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand business objectives, define key metrics, and recommend data-driven solutions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on data availability, interpretation, and analytics best practices.
• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions and document business and technical requirements.
• Communicate analytical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Data Stewardship & Governance

• Promote data governance standards, business glossary usage, and consistent metric definitions.
• Support data quality initiatives and help identify and resolve data integrity issues.
• Contribute to metadata, documentation, and data catalog efforts.
• Champion trusted and responsible use of enterprise data.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting processes and improve operational efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging analytics, AI, and data technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.
• Support the organization's transition to modern data platforms and analytics capabilities.
• Contribute to establishing standards, best practices, and repeatable analytics processes.

Knowledge Sharing & Data Literacy

• Help educate business partners on available data assets, reporting tools, and analytics capabilities.
• Mentor and support peers in analytics concepts, reporting techniques, and data best practices.
• Foster a culture of data-driven decision making.
• Share knowledge gained through research, training, conferences, and professional development activities.

Project Participation

• Participate in enterprise projects as an analytics subject matter expert.
• Develop effort estimates, implementation plans, testing strategies, and documentation.
• Manage assigned work effectively while communicating status, risks, and dependencies.
• Support testing, validation, deployment, and production support activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Required

1. Associate Degree in computer science, information systems, business, management, data analytics, or related field or commensurate work experience.
2. 5+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, reporting or related disciplines. 
3. Experience working with enterprise data warehouse and modern analytics platforms.
4. Strong SQL skills and experience querying large, complex datasets.
5. Experience developing dashboards and reporting solutions using Power BI or similar visualization platforms.
6. Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving abilities.
7. Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into analytics solutions.
8. Excellent verbal, written, and communication skills.
9. Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a dynamic environment.
10. Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and professional development.

Preferred

1. Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information systems, business, management or related field or commensurate work experience .
2. Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data platforms.
3. Experience with semantic models, dimensional modeling or data warehouse concepts.
4. Experience with data governance, metadata management, and business glossary practices.
5. Familiarity with Python, SQL automation, AI-assisted analytics or advanced analytical techniques.
6. Experience promoting data literacy or providing analytics training to business users.
7. Insurance or healthcare industry experience.

Delta Dental of Iowa is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. It is also the policy of Delta Dental of Iowa to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of their status as individuals with disabilities or protected veterans, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements.