The Senior Analytics Analyst leads the design and delivery of governed semantic models, advanced dashboards, and scalable self-service BI solutions for commercial stakeholders. This role takes a lead technical role within the analytics team, driving semantic layer architecture decisions, establishing BI standards, and mentoring junior analysts. The Senior Analyst brings specialized expertise in semantic modeling, user interface design for analytics, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement, ensuring that commercial data products are consumed consistently and effectively across Regions and Business Units.

Semantic Layer Architecture & Governance

• Lead the design and implementation of governed semantic layer models aligned to enterprise business taxonomy, metric definitions, and data governance standards.

• Define and enforce semantic layer design patterns, naming conventions, and object hierarchies that enable consistent metric consumption across all BI and analytics tools.

• Partner with Commercial Data Product Strategy and Analytics Engineering teams to ensure physical data models are correctly surfaced through the semantic layer.

• Maintain semantic layer health, resolving conflicts, deprecating legacy objects, and managing version-controlled releases.

Advanced Dashboard & Interface Design

• Design and deliver advanced, scalable BI dashboards and user interfaces that serve as authoritative commercial reporting surfaces for senior business stakeholders.

• Apply UX/UI design principles to create intuitive, performant, and accessible analytics interfaces that drive self-service adoption.

• Establish and enforce dashboard design standards, template libraries, and component reuse patterns across the analytics team.

• Lead the evaluation and adoption of new BI platform capabilities that improve user experience and report performance.

Self-Service Enablement & Analytics Adoption

• Drive the reduction of bespoke report requests by designing modular, reusable analytics assets that empower business users to self-serve.

• Lead enablement workshops, training sessions, and office hours that build data literacy and BI platform proficiency across commercial user communities.

• Define and track self-service adoption metrics, using insights to prioritize semantic layer and dashboard investments.

• Collaborate with global and regional stakeholders to identify common analytics needs that can be met through shared, governed assets.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Requirements Leadership

• Lead requirements gathering sessions with senior commercial stakeholders, translating complex analytical needs into scalable BI and semantic layer solutions.

• Act as a primary analytics liaison between commercial business teams, Data Product Strategy, and Analytics Engineering to align reporting needs with data model capabilities.

• Partner with Decision Science & AI teams to ensure semantic layer objects are available and consistent for use in model explainability and output dashboards.

• Represent the analytics team in cross-functional data governance forums, contributing to metric standardization and data product prioritization.

Agentic AI Development & Training

• Lead the design and delivery of agentic AI workflows that consume semantic layer assets to automate commercial reporting, anomaly detection, and insight generation.

• Define standards and best practices for AI-assisted analytics development, including prompt engineering patterns, output validation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop review processes.

• Partner with Decision Science & AI teams to curate and maintain high-quality training datasets derived from governed BI assets and commercial data products.

• Evaluate and pilot emerging agentic AI tooling and LLM-powered analytics capabilities, recommending adoption pathways aligned to the analytics platform roadmap.

• Mentor JG3 analysts in agentic AI development practices, reviewing AI workflow designs and training data contributions for quality and compliance.

• Establish governance controls and documentation standards for agentic AI components embedded in commercial analytics workflows.

Mentorship & Team Standards

• Mentor JG3 Analytics Analysts, conducting peer reviews of dashboard builds and semantic layer objects to ensure quality and adherence to standards.

• Contribute to the development and documentation of team BI standards, style guides, and delivery frameworks.

• Onboard and support new team members on tooling, data models, and analytics engineering patterns.

• Identify opportunities to improve team workflows, tooling, and delivery cadences to increase speed-to-insight.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.

• 4+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, or data analysis in an enterprise environment.

• Advanced proficiency in at least one enterprise BI platform (Power BI, Tableau, Looker) including semantic or data modeling layers.

• Demonstrated experience designing governed semantic models, calculated metrics, and dimension hierarchies for multi-team consumption.

• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, , Databricks).

• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable BI and reporting solutions.

• Strong understanding of commercial data domains: sales pipeline, revenue, forecasting, territory/account planning, and pricing.

• Experience driving self-service analytics adoption and building analytics enablement programs.

• Hands-on expertise with semantic layer platforms (e.g., LookML, AtScale, dbt Metrics, Microsoft Fabric semantic models).

• Experience with UX/UI best practices applied to enterprise dashboard and analytics interface design.

• Familiarity with data catalog, lineage, and metadata management tools.

• Experience in MedTech, Life Sciences, or regulated industry analytics environments.

• Global experience supporting multiple Business Units or Regions with shared analytics assets.

• Experience in a technical lead or senior individual contributor capacity in an analytics team.

• Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks, LLM APIs, or AI-assisted analytics tooling

At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. Remote or field-based positions will have different workplace arrangements which will be indicated in the job posting.

Primary Work LocationUSA NJ - Franklin Lakes

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