Data Visualization Analyst Senior

Business Intelligence (Bi) Professional

The Banking Services Support Data & Analytics team is seeking a highly skilled Business Intelligence (BI) professional to support the department and division. This position will lead the development of high-impact dashboards, pilot emerging tools, and champion best practices in data storytelling. This position aims to transform how insights are communicated across the organization, enhancing data-driven decision-making and supporting strategic initiatives. Designs standards, templates and themes for dashboards/reports through an iterative design process and apply to descriptive, diagnostics, and predictive visuals that enable the business to make data informed decisions. Mentors less experienced BI team members.

Position Responsibilities:

• Leverage expert BI platform skills on one or more platforms to incorporate advanced calculations, develop more advanced data flows and assemble complex consolidated dashboards/reports for presentations.
• Apply standards, templates and themes to create uniform sets of visuals for a given audience. Use knowledge of the principles of visual perception to provide refinement to dashboards/reports, providing rich information in a dynamic and understandable way.
• Create templates for data dashboards/reports for use by data visualization team to support consistency and clarity across data visualizations.
• Implement identified best practices in navigating and publishing BI reports, providing access, managing permissions, and monitoring visualization usage by data users.
• Use knowledge of programming languages to work with data teams to query, structure and model data, as needed, for use in dashboards/reports.
• Use expert knowledge of business and technical metadata, data quality, and issue remediation to create accurate data models within BI tool(s).
• Drive business insights through the development of descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive reporting by selecting appropriate advanced visuals that identify trends and outliers.
• Mentor less experienced team members in the use of dashboard/report templates, data visualization best practices and facilitate learning opportunities.
• Work with business partners to conduct dashboard/report testing and recommend refinements.
• Participate in gathering visualization requirements from business stakeholders.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Managerial/Supervisory Responsibility:

None

Minimum Qualifications Required:

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years related experience.

• Tactical experience with a minimum of one data visualization tool
• Experience designing and developing advanced dashboards/reports and data visualizations
• Expert knowledge of data visualization approaches
• Experience incorporating data storytelling into visualizations
• Experience using Structured Query Language (SQL) to analyze, extract, and transform data

Ideal Qualifications Preferred:

• Tactical experience with multiple data visualization tools including Power BI
• Knowledge of data management concepts and terminology
• Certification in data storytelling and/or data visualization tools

Work Location: This position requires a hybrid schedule, and is open to reporting out of M&T Center in Buffalo, NY or Two Burlington Square in Burlington, VT.