Principal Business Intelligence Analyst

Navy Federal Credit Union

Principal Business Intelligence Analyst providing data analysis and insights to leadership at Navy Federal. Involved in BI tools and data interpretation for significant business challenges.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeVienna • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $127,200 - $163,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudERPPythonServiceNowTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support business decisions by providing quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to leadership via dashboards and reports.
Analyze business problems and issues using business intelligence tools that incorporate data from internal and external sources.
Work independently to interpret and analyze complex business challenges that have a significant impact on the function or branch.
Collect, aggregate, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources, including structured and unstructured data sets, to drive insights into business performance.
Develop, maintain, and manage advanced reporting, dashboards, and BI solutions.
Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns and prepare ongoing reports and data visualizations (e.g., charts, dashboards, heat maps) to support business decisions.
Produce actionable reports that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement into current operations, and display root cause analysis of problems.
Use analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts of potential costs, risks, and profits of new business initiatives.
Understand data gaps and tie data components together for visualizations.
Communicate findings and insight to stakeholders and provide business strategy recommendations for optimizing business performance.
Provide reporting solutions and respond to ad-hoc report requests across multiple business areas.
Create specifications for reports and analysis based on business needs and required or available data elements.
Assist with the development and enhancement of practices, procedures, and instructions.
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with team members, subject matter experts, and leaders; work with senior management on complex issues.
Lead medium to large projects and initiatives.
Mentor lower-level staff.
Manage a portfolio of dashboards, monitor use and performance, and make recommendations to management for enhancement or changes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7-10 years of experience in data and systems analysis
Significant Power BI experience
Subject matter expert within business area/specialization with understanding of interrelationships of different disciplines
Expert skill using business intelligence applications and/or cloud services
Expert knowledge of reporting capabilities of existing ERP, CRM and/or database software vendors
Expert skill using statistical methods, mathematical techniques, forecasting, cost-benefit analysis
Advanced skill with data analysis tools and programming languages such as Python or R
Skilled in Excel, including moderately complex data formulas, data connections, and statistics
Expert knowledge of reporting/dashboarding best practices and data research and root cause analysis techniques
Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence executive decision-makers
Research skills
Interpersonal skills
Expert knowledge of data integration, cleaning and validation techniques
Advanced research skills in the ability to complete data research, business research, reporting/dashboarding best practices research, root cause analysis, needs assessment
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Statistics, or related field
**Desired Qualifications **
7+ years of experience in data analysis and reporting
Significant Tableau experience
Experience with ServiceNow

Benefits

Comp & perks

Highly competitive pay
Generous benefits and perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analysisdata visualizationbusiness intelligencePower BITableauPythonRExcelstatistical methodsforecasting

Soft Skills

leadershipstakeholder managementinterpersonal skillscommunicationmentoringproblem-solvingresearch skillsanalytical thinkinginfluencingcollaboration