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Business Intelligence jobs are consistently among the most OPT-friendly roles in tech, with strong demand from employers who regularly sponsor H-1B visas. Most BI positions qualify as specialty occupations, making them well-suited for both standard 12-month OPT and the 24-month STEM OPT extension available to graduates in data, computer science, and related fields.
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Location:
US-AZ - Phoenix
Position Type:
Full Time
Virtual Eligible:
Yes
Ref #:
7509
DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS
At the University of Phoenix, we are committed to the future of work by providing a fully remote, work-from-home environment. This strategy enables us to attract top talent nationwide. Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the opportunity to make a significant impact while collaborating with a team of fun, innovative individuals? Would you prefer to work with an organization that positively contributes to the world? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!
About us
University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are: Brave. Honest. Focused.
Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring – and learning from – those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.
We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.
ABOUT THE POSITION
A Senior Human Resources Business Intelligence Analyst (Sr HR BI Analyst) partners with Human Resources, Payroll, and Information Technology to deliver scalable business intelligence solutions that drive data-informed workforce decisions. The Sr. HR BI Analyst is responsible for designing and maintaining Workday reports, EIB integrations, and interactive Power BI dashboards. Utilizing SQL and AWS, this position builds optimized data pipelines and reporting structures to ensure secure, high-performing data delivery. Additionally, this position analyzes workforce trends, ensures strict data governance, and troubleshoots technical integration issues to continuously improve the organization's HR analytics capabilities.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
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Partner with HR, Payroll, Time and Attendance, IT, and business stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, define metrics, and deliver BI solutions that support workforce and operational decision-making.
-
Design, develop, test, and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIB integrations, and Workday Orchestrate solutions for HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance reporting needs.
-
Write, optimize, and validate SQL queries using tools such as DBeaver to extract, analyze, reconcile, and prepare data for reporting and analytics.
-
Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, datasets, and visualizations that provide accurate, timely, and actionable HR insights.
-
Develop and support data models, reporting structures, and data pipelines using AWS and related data tools to improve reporting scalability, reliability, and performance.
-
Analyze HR, payroll, workforce, and operational data to identify trends, explain variances, highlight risks, and recommend opportunities for process or reporting improvements.
-
Ensure reporting outputs are accurate, consistent, standardized, and aligned with data governance, privacy, security, and compliance expectations.
-
Troubleshoot reporting, integrations, dashboard, and data quality issues by identifying root causes and partnering with stakeholders to implement sustainable solutions.
-
Create documentation for reporting logic, data definitions, business rules, workflows, and support procedures to improve transparency and long-term maintainability.
-
Continuously improve HR BI products, reporting processes, and analytics capabilities by evaluating new tools, enhancing existing solutions, and applying BI best practices.
-
Perform other duties as required or apparent.
NOTE: The Primary Accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of the position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the Primary Accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in incumbents’ performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents’ immediate manager.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
None
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
-
Master of Science degree in Business Analytics
-
Two (2) years of experience in business intelligence, HR analytics, BI development, reporting, data analysis, or a related analytics role.
-
Advanced experience developing, maintaining, and optimizing HR reporting, dashboards, datasets, and analytics solutions using SQL, AWS and PowerBI tools to access, prepare, analyze, visualize, and deliver data-driven insights.
-
Two (2) years of experience with Workday reporting and integrations for HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance, including building, validating, troubleshooting, and supporting operational and analytical reports, Workday Orchestrate processes, EIB integrations, data movement, reporting dependencies, and data validation.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
-
Experience with additional HR Workday modules beyond HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance.
-
Experience designing, developing, and supporting scalable BI solutions, datasets, reporting structures, and data models that improve HR decision-making.
-
Experience with ETL, data integration, data warehousing, data preparation, data quality assurance, and troubleshooting reporting or data discrepancies across structured sources, flat files, APIs, databases, or cloud-based platforms as well as statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive analytics, or other advanced analytics methods.
-
Strong data analysis and visualization skills, including the ability to identify trends, validate results, investigate variances, and build clear, reliable dashboards, reports, and KPI views.
-
Strong understanding of HR data, business processes, data flows, data quality, data governance, and reporting standards in an enterprise environment.
-
Advanced ability to translate business requirements into reporting solutions, data models, metrics, dashboards, and actionable insights.
University of Phoenix is an equal opportunity employer.
If you are an active-duty military member seeking employment when off-duty, compliance with Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation, 5500-7-R, is required prior to starting employment with University of Phoenix. You are advised to contact your base Judge Advocate General to seek such approval and answer any questions.
PAY RANGE
The annual pay range for this position is $84,000 (minimum), $126,900 (midpoint), and $169,800 (maximum).
Typical hiring range is between the minimum and midpoint of the above pay range. Actual starting base pay may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, location and budget. Compensation above the midpoint is generally associated with experienced, long-tenured employees who have demonstrated sustained performance and expertise in the role.
Individuals in this role are eligible for:
- Annual Bonus Award
Your work is critical to helping adult learners achieve their dreams, and we’re committed to rewarding you for your efforts. We offer a competitive, comprehensive total rewards package designed to help you achieve your health, financial, educational and work-life balance goals.
Full-time employees are eligible for:
- Medical, dental and vision plans; Flexible Spending Accounts; Health Savings Accounts; Life and Disability insurance; and our Wellness incentive program;
- Competitive 401(k) employer match;
- Substantial tuition discount for you and eligible dependents; and,
- A generous time off package, including paid vacation, sick time and company holidays.
Application Deadline is 08/14/2026.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Location:
US-AZ - Phoenix
Position Type:
Full Time
Virtual Eligible:
Yes
Ref #:
7509
DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS
At the University of Phoenix, we are committed to the future of work by providing a fully remote, work-from-home environment. This strategy enables us to attract top talent nationwide. Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the opportunity to make a significant impact while collaborating with a team of fun, innovative individuals? Would you prefer to work with an organization that positively contributes to the world? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!
About us
University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are: Brave. Honest. Focused.
Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring – and learning from – those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.
We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.
ABOUT THE POSITION
A Senior Human Resources Business Intelligence Analyst (Sr HR BI Analyst) partners with Human Resources, Payroll, and Information Technology to deliver scalable business intelligence solutions that drive data-informed workforce decisions. The Sr. HR BI Analyst is responsible for designing and maintaining Workday reports, EIB integrations, and interactive Power BI dashboards. Utilizing SQL and AWS, this position builds optimized data pipelines and reporting structures to ensure secure, high-performing data delivery. Additionally, this position analyzes workforce trends, ensures strict data governance, and troubleshoots technical integration issues to continuously improve the organization's HR analytics capabilities.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
-
Partner with HR, Payroll, Time and Attendance, IT, and business stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, define metrics, and deliver BI solutions that support workforce and operational decision-making.
-
Design, develop, test, and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIB integrations, and Workday Orchestrate solutions for HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance reporting needs.
-
Write, optimize, and validate SQL queries using tools such as DBeaver to extract, analyze, reconcile, and prepare data for reporting and analytics.
-
Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, datasets, and visualizations that provide accurate, timely, and actionable HR insights.
-
Develop and support data models, reporting structures, and data pipelines using AWS and related data tools to improve reporting scalability, reliability, and performance.
-
Analyze HR, payroll, workforce, and operational data to identify trends, explain variances, highlight risks, and recommend opportunities for process or reporting improvements.
-
Ensure reporting outputs are accurate, consistent, standardized, and aligned with data governance, privacy, security, and compliance expectations.
-
Troubleshoot reporting, integrations, dashboard, and data quality issues by identifying root causes and partnering with stakeholders to implement sustainable solutions.
-
Create documentation for reporting logic, data definitions, business rules, workflows, and support procedures to improve transparency and long-term maintainability.
-
Continuously improve HR BI products, reporting processes, and analytics capabilities by evaluating new tools, enhancing existing solutions, and applying BI best practices.
-
Perform other duties as required or apparent.
NOTE: The Primary Accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of the position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the Primary Accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in incumbents’ performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents’ immediate manager.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
None
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
-
Master of Science degree in Business Analytics
-
Two (2) years of experience in business intelligence, HR analytics, BI development, reporting, data analysis, or a related analytics role.
-
Advanced experience developing, maintaining, and optimizing HR reporting, dashboards, datasets, and analytics solutions using SQL, AWS and PowerBI tools to access, prepare, analyze, visualize, and deliver data-driven insights.
-
Two (2) years of experience with Workday reporting and integrations for HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance, including building, validating, troubleshooting, and supporting operational and analytical reports, Workday Orchestrate processes, EIB integrations, data movement, reporting dependencies, and data validation.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
-
Experience with additional HR Workday modules beyond HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance.
-
Experience designing, developing, and supporting scalable BI solutions, datasets, reporting structures, and data models that improve HR decision-making.
-
Experience with ETL, data integration, data warehousing, data preparation, data quality assurance, and troubleshooting reporting or data discrepancies across structured sources, flat files, APIs, databases, or cloud-based platforms as well as statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive analytics, or other advanced analytics methods.
-
Strong data analysis and visualization skills, including the ability to identify trends, validate results, investigate variances, and build clear, reliable dashboards, reports, and KPI views.
-
Strong understanding of HR data, business processes, data flows, data quality, data governance, and reporting standards in an enterprise environment.
-
Advanced ability to translate business requirements into reporting solutions, data models, metrics, dashboards, and actionable insights.
University of Phoenix is an equal opportunity employer.
If you are an active-duty military member seeking employment when off-duty, compliance with Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation, 5500-7-R, is required prior to starting employment with University of Phoenix. You are advised to contact your base Judge Advocate General to seek such approval and answer any questions.
PAY RANGE
The annual pay range for this position is $84,000 (minimum), $126,900 (midpoint), and $169,800 (maximum).
Typical hiring range is between the minimum and midpoint of the above pay range. Actual starting base pay may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, location and budget. Compensation above the midpoint is generally associated with experienced, long-tenured employees who have demonstrated sustained performance and expertise in the role.
Individuals in this role are eligible for:
- Annual Bonus Award
Your work is critical to helping adult learners achieve their dreams, and we’re committed to rewarding you for your efforts. We offer a competitive, comprehensive total rewards package designed to help you achieve your health, financial, educational and work-life balance goals.
Full-time employees are eligible for:
- Medical, dental and vision plans; Flexible Spending Accounts; Health Savings Accounts; Life and Disability insurance; and our Wellness incentive program;
- Competitive 401(k) employer match;
- Substantial tuition discount for you and eligible dependents; and,
- A generous time off package, including paid vacation, sick time and company holidays.
Application Deadline is 08/14/2026.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Business Intelligence
Target employers with a STEM OPT extension track record
Search for companies that have previously filed H-1B petitions for BI Analysts and Data Engineers. Employers already familiar with OPT extensions are far less likely to hesitate when your authorization timeline comes up in the hiring process.
Lead with your technical stack, not your visa status
Recruiters filter on SQL, Tableau, Power BI, and Python proficiency before they consider authorization. Get those skills prominent in your resume header and the first bullet of each role. Sponsorship conversations go better when you're already a strong match.
Apply to consulting firms and staffing agencies that place BI contractors
Many BI roles are filled through consulting firms that routinely manage OPT paperwork across multiple clients. These employers sponsor at higher rates than direct-hire corporate teams and often convert contractors to full-time once your H-1B is approved.
Clarify whether the role qualifies for STEM OPT before accepting
Not all BI job titles trigger STEM OPT eligibility. Verify your degree field is on the STEM designated degree program list and confirm your prospective employer is E-Verify enrolled, which is required before your DSO can recommend the extension.
Apply early to build a pipeline before your OPT start date
BI hiring cycles can run six to eight weeks from first interview to offer. Starting your search at least three months before your current authorization expires gives you enough runway to negotiate start dates without creating gaps in your work authorization.
Quantify business impact in every resume bullet
Hiring managers for BI roles respond to numbers: dashboards that reduced reporting time, revenue trends you surfaced, or cost anomalies your analysis caught. Specific outcomes demonstrate specialty-occupation-level expertise and strengthen any future H-1B petition your employer files.
Business Intelligence OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Business Intelligence roles qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Most BI roles do qualify, but eligibility depends on your degree, not your job title. Your degree field must appear on the STEM Designated Degree Program List, and your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify. Common qualifying fields include Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, and Data Analytics. If your degree is in Business Administration or a non-STEM field, you may only have the standard 12-month OPT period, so confirm your eligibility with your DSO before you start applying.
How do I find Business Intelligence jobs that sponsor OPT?
Migrate Mate lists BI roles from employers who have a demonstrated history of sponsoring work visas, so you can filter out companies that won't engage with OPT candidates. Beyond that, focus your applications on mid-to-large enterprises in finance, healthcare, and retail technology, where dedicated data teams are common and sponsorship infrastructure is already in place. Avoid startups with fewer than 50 employees unless they explicitly state they sponsor visas.
When should I disclose my OPT status to a BI employer?
The most practical approach is to disclose after you have a strong technical interview performance but before any formal offer is extended. This gives the employer time to confirm their ability to sponsor without derailing the conversation before they've seen your skills. Some candidates include a brief note in their cover letter; others wait until the recruiter screening call. Either approach works as long as you don't let it come as a surprise during the offer stage.
What BI tools and skills make OPT candidates more competitive?
SQL is non-negotiable for nearly every BI role. Beyond that, proficiency in Tableau, Power BI, or Looker covers the visualization layer most employers expect. Python or R for data manipulation, and experience with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift, significantly broadens the roles you'll qualify for. Employers filing H-1B petitions also benefit from a well-defined technical scope, so a specific, demonstrable skill set actually makes the sponsorship case stronger on both ends.
Can I change employers while on OPT and keep working in Business Intelligence?
Yes, you can change employers during OPT, but there are strict conditions. Each new BI role must be directly related to your degree field, and you must report the employment change to your DSO within 10 days through your SEVIS portal. You also cannot exceed 90 days of total unemployment during standard OPT, or 150 days during a STEM OPT extension. Line up your next role before leaving your current one to avoid burning through your unemployment allowance while you search.