Data Analytics Specialist - Data Governance & Analytics - Davidson

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DATA ANALYTICS SPECIALIST - DATA GOVERNANCE & ANALYTICS - DAVIDSON

Department of Children's Services

Office of Data Governance & Analytics

Nashville, TN

Salary: $5,647.00 per month

Closing Date: 01/19/2026

This is a hybrid position with three days a week in the Nashville office and two days remote.

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This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Data Analytics Specialists are responsible for querying, analyzing, validating, and reporting data. Specialists utilize complex queries and analytics in SQL, Tableau, Power BI, and other languages or platforms to obtain data and develop reports from relational databases, Snowflake, and other non-relational sources. The Data Analytics Specialists learn and evaluate data to determine patterns and trends and then present and explain these findings to both lay and expert stakeholders ad-hoc or in a structured manner such as Tableau or Power BI.

They carefully provide accurate and vetted data to multiple business units as well as stakeholders beyond the agency.

• Conduct advanced standard data queries as well as data aggregations, dashboard preparation and maintenance (Tableau and Power BI); ensure data quality and deliver reports; and ad hoc data requests using data analytic software, reporting software, and analytical programs (SAS, SQL, Python, R, Snowflake, Power BI, Tableau).
• Perform descriptive, predictive, and inferential statistical analyses, while providing thorough documentation of projects and processes.
• Comply with regulations and mandates for data privacy requirements, ensure the data reported is accurate, and complete data request projects in a timely manner.
• Engage in regular contact with stakeholders such as department representatives or IT staff to provide or gain expertise and guidance.
• Maintain relations and effective communication with internal and external business users, vendors, and/or stakeholders to explain data reports and analyses.
• Primary communication centers around clarifying data values or parameters used for the analysis as well as any constraints incurred while doing analysis.

Requires a bachelor's degree in a data analytics, computer science, or a related discipline (i.e., statistics, applied statistics, mathematics, biostatistics, economics, epidemiology, business administration, public administration, public policy, or other related discipline)

OR

An associate's degree and 2 years of relevant professional work experience

OR

A combination of years of relevant college coursework and years of relevant professional work experience totaling 4 years.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.