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Senior Analytics Engineer

Wake Forest University · Education · $843.2M budget · 6,118 staff · Since 1834

Why Wake Forest University

FY2024 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filed

Provides higher education in the liberal arts, graduate, and professional fields while fostering student-led community service and extracurricular development.

  • Founded in 1834, Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational collegiate university based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. One of the leading institutions of its kind, Wake Forest blends the intimacy of a liberal arts college with the academic vitality of…$436.5M spent in FY2024
  • Residence Halls & Dining:In the interest of building community, Wake Forest requires all undergraduates to live on campus for at least three years. Only 10 of the 189 research institutions with data in a November 2024 survey by collegetransitions.com required…$108.6M spent in FY2024
  • Campus Life:Wake Forest is committed to putting the spirit of its motto, Pro Humanitate, in action. Student Organizations: Approximately 200 student organizations are active at Wake Forest, providing extracurricular learning and service opportunities for their members and ancillary benefit to…$73.9M spent in FY2024

Before you apply

FY2023 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the org
Pays its leaders
$594K–$4.9M
12 officers reported
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt VII · Sec A
Budget
$705.7M
spent in FY2023
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt I · Ln 18
Staff
6,118
employees
2,200 volunteers
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt I · Ln 5–6
Spent on programs
86%
of spending
Looks good: 86% of spending went to programs; 75% or more.
Pt IX · Ln 25 · col B
Surplus or deficit
+8%
of revenue, FY2023
Looks good: revenue was at least expenses in the latest filing.
Pt I · Ln 19
Cash reserves
34 mo
of spending, in cash and securities
Looks good: 33.8 months of spending in cash; 3 or more.
Pt X · Ln 1–2 · Pt I · Ln 18
Latest return
FY2023
latest Form 990
Fine: the latest return is for FY2023, 3 tax years back; within 3 tax years.
IRS e-file
IRS status
501(c)(3)
tax-exempt since 2001
Looks good: listed by the IRS.
IRS BMF
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About the role

The org's own posting, as written

External Applicants: Please ensure all required documents are ready to upload before beginning your application, including your resume, cover letter, and any additional materials specified in the job description. Cover Letter and Supporting Documents: Navigate to the "My Experience" application page. Locate the "Resume/CV" document upload section at the bottom of the page. Use the "Select Files" button to upload your cover letter, resume, and any other required supporting documents. You can select multiple files. Important Note: The "My Experience" page is the only opportunity to attach your cover letter, resume, and supporting documents.

You will not be able to modify your application or add attachments after submission. Current Employees: Apply from your existing Workday account in the Jobs Hub. Do not apply from this website. A cover letter is required for all positions; optional for facilities, campus services, and hospitality roles unless otherwise specified.

Job Description

Summary We are a small team of analytic practitioners inside Information Systems, and we serve the entire university — academic units, enrollment, advancement, finance, HR, and student life. Some weeks that means sitting with a stakeholder to shape how their data should be structured. Other weeks it means building the pipeline, the model, and the dashboard end to end. Nobody on this team hands work over a wall. You will meet the stakeholder, understand the problem, design the solution, build it, and stay with it through adoption. If that scope sounds like a lot, it is — and it's the reason the work is interesting. We are also in the middle of a genuine platform shift.

We're moving from a legacy reporting estate toward a modern lakehouse architecture on AWS and Microsoft Fabric, and replacing low-code integration with spec-driven development in Python. Alongside that, we're early in our AI journey — deliberately so. We have projects scoped and moving forward now, and we're working out what AI actually changes about this craft, from AI-assisted engineering through to agentic analytics for our stakeholders. We're not promising you a mature AI practice to plug into. We're offering something better: a chance to help build one.

What we offer ● A small team where your work is visible and your judgment matters ● Room to shape a platform migration rather than maintain a finished one ● Real support for learning — training, certification, and time to explore new tools ● Flexibility in how you work: hybrid by default, with roughly one day a week on campus ● The breadth of a university: no two stakeholder problems look alike Job Description Partner with the institution ● Work directly with stakeholders across campus to understand their questions before defining a solution — requirements gathering is a conversation, not a ticket. ● Advise on data architecture, data management, and governance practices for units building their own capability. ● Coach and support customers through…

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About Wake Forest University

From its Form 990

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