What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Intelligence Analyst position at tactilemedical?
At Tactile Medical, we specialize in developing at-home therapy devices to treat lymphedema, chronic venous insufficiency and respiratory illnesses.
The Business Intelligence Analyst will translate business questions into clear, trustworthy insights by delivering high quality reports and dashboards using shared, governed data assets in Microsoft Fabric. This role combines business analysis, stakeholder partnership, and BI development to support decision making and drive adoption of self-service analytics across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Business Analysis & Insight Development
- Partner with business stakeholders to clarify questions, decisions, and success criteria
- Translate business needs into analytical approaches using existing data assets
- Provide context, interpretation, and recommendations, not just dashboards
- Identify gaps in current data or metrics and escalate opportunities for improvement
BI Development & Reporting
- Build reports and dashboards using Microsoft Fabric/Power BI
- Apply visualization and data storytelling best practices tailored to audience and use case
- Use shared datasets and semantic models rather than embedding custom logic
- Validate report outputs and flag data quality issues upstream, rather than applying workarounds
Adoption & Enablement
- Help stakeholders understand and adopt self-service analytics where appropriate
- Reinforce use of shared definitions and certified datasets
- Serve as a bridge between business users and centralized data teams (Analytics Engineering, Governance)
Education & Experience:
Required:
- 1-3 years of experience as a Business Analyst or in a related analytical role.
- Experience gathering, documenting, and translating business requirements into technical solutions and actionable deliverables.
- Proficiency in Power BI, including the development and maintenance of reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.
- Strong ability to collaborate with business stakeholders to understand needs, identify opportunities, and recommend solutions.
Preferred:
- Experience writing and troubleshooting SQL queries to extract, analyze, and validate data.
- Knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, and reporting best practices.
- Experience supporting business intelligence, reporting, or data analytics initiatives.
- Familiarity with translating complex business processes into scalable reporting and data solutions.
- Experience working in healthcare, durable medical equipment (DME), or other regulated industries preferred.
Key Skills:
Technical
- Proficiency with Power BI/BI tools for reporting and analysis
- Strong understanding of shared metrics, semantic models, and curated datasets
- Ability to write DAX measures using approved definitions
- Awareness of data freshness, latency, and consumption limitations
- Data validation and basic reconciliation techniques
Professional
- Strong business analysis and communication skills
- Ability to frame ambiguous requests into clear analytical questions
- Customer centric mindset with comfort influencing without authority
- Willingness to shift from “report builder” to insight and decision enabler
Visualization & Analysis
- Applies audience appropriate visual design
- Tells clear, structured data stories using governed data
- Highlights trends, drivers, and implications — not just numbers
- Surfaces data quality or definition issues proactively
- Builds reports using shared semantic models and Fabric datasets
- Writes DAX measures following approved metric definitions
- Applies visual performance best practices in reports and dashboards
- Avoids local or data specific logic in favor of governed, reusable assets
Measured Success:
- Reports are consistent, trusted, and aligned with shared metric definitions
- Stakeholders rely on insights to inform decisions, not reconcile numbers
- Self-service analytics adoption increases over time
- Business questions are answered faster with less work
Our total compensation package includes medical, dental and vision benefits, retirement benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, parental leave, family medical leave, volunteer time off and additional leave programs, life insurance, disability coverage, and other life and work wellness benefits and discounts. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contributions, and other requirements and conditions.
Below is the starting salary or hourly range for this position, although offers may differ based on the candidate's location, job-specific knowledge, skills and experience.
US Pay Range
$70,800 - $99,120 USD
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Salary : $70,800