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Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst

Unum
Portland, ME Full Time
POSTED ON 12/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/16/2026
Job Posting End Date: October 30

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Benefits

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

  • Award-winning culture
  • Inclusion and diversity as a priority
  • Performance Based Incentive Plans
  • Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
  • Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
  • Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
  • Mental health support
  • Career advancement opportunities
  • Student loan repayment options
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible work environments
  • All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!

General Summary

General Summary

The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst serves as a subject matter expert in the claims and absence domain, leading complex data analysis and visualization efforts, driving development of critical operational metrics for decision-making, guiding cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring analytics talent. They will apply their business acumen and data expertise in the claims and absence domain to deliver scalable solutions that support business leaders and their operations in confident, informed decision-making. They will lead the design and execution of critical projects, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions with efficiency and measurable impact. The ideal candidate will be passionate about integrating their business knowledge with complex data and we seek a creative and analytical thinker to help us solve our most challenging problems in a dynamic environment. This role will collaborate closely with business stakeholders to define and validate requirements, while also providing technical consultation to Business Analysts, BI Analysts, Analytics Engineers, and Data Engineers. The Senior BI Analyst plays a critical role in guiding the work and mentoring of other BI Analysts to ensure we are meeting objectives and growing future talent within our analytics teams.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

  • Utilize business knowledge to understand business needs and provide technical analytics and solutions to meet these needs
  • Conduct moderate to complex data profiling and analysis to evaluate data sources to determine the best source for business information
  • Acquiring, transforming and translating data into actionable dashboards, reports, algorithms or datasets that has a substantial impact on the functional area of support
  • Performing moderate to complex statistical analysis and presenting findings to guide, influence and advise leadership, including at times senior leaders
  • Collaborate with data engineers to perform data validation and testing activities as appropriate
  • Develop and build upon existing expertise knowledge of the insurance industry, company and competitor landscape
  • Develop and build upon existing expertise of data stored in company databases, as well as emerging trends in business intelligence technologies
  • Works directly with internal customers to refine requirements and validate output to ensure solutions will meet expectations
  • Provide mentoring, coaching and developmental support to lower-level BI Analysts

Job Specifications

  • Bachelors Degree preferred, and/or equivalent experience
  • 6 years experience with demonstrated success at a BI Analyst II level or comparable data analytics related field
  • Excellent knowledge of analytics programming languages (SQL/Snowflake)
  • Excellent knowledge of modern BI toolsets (Tableau, Alteryx, Qlik, or equivalent)
  • Strong understanding of claim systems and their ties to company databases.
  • In-depth understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
  • Demonstrated expertise in extracting and utilizing data from data warehouses, transactional databases, and object stores.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions for claims and absence organizations
  • Ability to embrace change, adapt to the unexpected, and focus energies, people, and solutions on practical and positive results
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Strong communications skills with the ability to influence various levels of leadership
  • Strong and proven ability to effectively mentor, develop and coach others
  • Strong aptitude and drive to learn new technologies and analysis techniques
  • Demonstrated leadership in the design & implementation of technical solutions
  • Strong team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with business partners from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization.

Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.

$89,400.00-$183,500.00

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

Company

Unum

Salary : $89,400 - $183,500

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