Ready to start your next chapter with NAIT? At NAIT, we’re passionate about building a team of talented, dedicated professionals who share our commitment to excellence and innovation. Your skills and experience can shape the future of education and make a real impact in our community. About the Prospect Student Progression is comprised of two main areas: Education Insights, Data and Research (EI) and the Office of the Registrar. Education Insights, Data and Research (EI)
- performs research, analyses, and reporting to provide critical insights and recommendations to support decision makers across campus. The team is comprised of Data & Insight Specialists, Data & Insight Analysts, Research Specialists and Research Analysts. The role of a Data & Insight Analyst will support and report to the Manager, Data & Insights. The Data & Insight Analyst works with other members of the team to provide business intelligence for decision makers across campus. The Data & Insight Analyst builds and maintains the data models, pipelines, and reports that leaders across NAIT rely on.

Key Responsibilities
- Owns assigned data analysis and reporting requests from programs, schools, and central administrative departments, from requirements through to tested, deployed output.
- Leads the design, construction, testing, and deployment of business intelligence and reporting solutions that inform decisions made by stakeholders across the institute.
- This includes standardized reports, dashboards, exploratory views, and data exports Sources, cleanses, and models large data sets in the Microsoft Fabric lake house and data warehouse for projects.
- Uses data visualization tools and techniques to explore trends and communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Accesses, compiles, organizes data for distribution to stakeholders.




- Responsible for maintaining confidentiality of data and information when supporting leaders through decision making processes.
- Performs and supports data reporting that inform admissions and student financial support policies, program efficacy assessment, program renewal, curriculum assessment, institutional enrolment planning, and budgets.
- Develops an understanding of stakeholder’s needs by participation in meetings and other requirement gathering activities with individuals and groups.
- Works in an iterative, agile manner with stakeholders to validate and incorporate requirements into projects, managing own work in Azure DevOps and delivering accurate work to committed dates.
- Maintains knowledge of business source systems and processes by maintaining contact with subject matter experts in the registrar’s office and program areas.
- Collaborates with other members of Education Insights in delivering needed support to stakeholders.
- Ensure that projects follow best practice for data visualization, modelling, and data governance, including access security, documentation, data quality, and privacy requirements. Skills & Abilities
- Advanced skills with business intelligence tools such as PowerBI/DAX, SQL Server and Excel.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to learn quickly and independently when facing new problems or situations.
- Knowledge of post-secondary Institution programs, policy, procedures,



and reporting environments.
- Understanding of software development lifecycles, data modelling, and business intelligence approaches such as Kimball data warehouse.
- Knowledge of data visualization best practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to interpret and explain data insights to a non-technical audience using business language.
- Ability to elicit requirements from business users and work with IT teams to translate requirements into useable data structures.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction, manage own priorities, and work as part of cross-functional teams.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills. Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree relevant to position.
- Minimum 4 years of experience working with institutional data, preferably in a post-secondary institution.
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric or a similar lakehouse platform, Python, Campus Solutions, and a current Microsoft Fabric or Power BI certification is an asset. Remuneration Remuneration: Refer to salary range noted on posting, plus a comprehensive benefits package. The compensation range for this job posting is : $78,885.85
- $104,506.92. Applicants with education credentials earned outside of Canada should have their credentials evaluated by a recognized agency in Canada
- Foreign Credential Validation against Canadian Standards
- Canada.ca. Company Culture & Benefits We are known as one of Alberta’s top employers. Being part of a community that makes a difference in the lives of students, staff, industry clients and partners, NAIT’s culture reflects our shared values of respect, collaboration, celebration, creativity, and accountability. People

📌 Data and Insights Analyst (Edmonton)
🏢 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
📍 Edmonton