Data Solutions Specialist
Role Overview
Design, develop, and maintain surveys, webforms, automated workflows, reporting solutions, and data analytics for System Offices business processes.
Consult stakeholders and collaborate with web developers, instructional designers, graphic designers, and business teams.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position overview
Design, develop, and maintain surveys, webforms, automated workflows, reporting solutions, and data analytics for System Offices business processes.
Consult stakeholders and collaborate with web developers, instructional designers, graphic designers, and business teams.
Work arrangement
- The posting identifies the position as hybrid.
Duties and responsibilities
- Gather stakeholder requirements and translate business processes into technical solutions.
- Build and maintain surveys and webforms with no-code platforms such as Alchemer, Qualtrics, Jotform, and FormBuilder.
- Implement skip logic and branching; test for bugs, cross-device compatibility, and data integrity.
- Create automated workflows, approvals, notifications, assignments, escalations, and data-routing processes.
- Integrate forms with enterprise systems, databases, reporting platforms, and third-party applications.
- Use AI-enabled tools to streamline work and improve accuracy and efficiency.
- Transform and analyze data from surveys, forms, service tools, LMS and ERP systems, and other enterprise applications.
- Develop reports, dashboards, visualizations, metrics, and analyses that identify trends and actionable insights.
- Assist with training registration, learner workflows, reporting tools, and website forms and automation.
- Perform other duties appropriate to the position.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Two years (24 months) total of qualifying IT-related coursework and/or IT-related work experience; combinations count according to the stated conversion table.
- Knowledge of survey and webform design, data collection, usability, accessibility, data analysis, reporting, data management, workflow automation, and AI-enabled solutions.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, PivotTables, and reporting functions.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 applications, including Teams, Power BI, and Copilot.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills; ability to communicate clearly, manage priorities and deadlines, collaborate, and learn new technologies.
Salary and appointment
- Full-time civil service Information Technology Tech Associate position; expected start date is as soon as possible.
- Budgeted salary range is $60,000–$65,000 per year, commensurate with qualifications and experience and considering internal equity.
- Position is intended to be eligible for health, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement, paid time off, and tuition waivers.
Application deadline
- For full consideration, submit an application through the university portal by 6 p.m. on October 1, 2026.
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