Business Intelligence Analyst

Key Responsibilities\n\n * Lead analytics initiatives end-to-end: Manage and facilitate significant analytic initiatives supporting strategic, operational, and quality/manufacturing projects; maintain reusable documentation, templates, and model artifacts.\n * Translate business needs into analytic solutions: Work with operational leaders to convert business needs into reporting and analytics strategies, including execution plans and resourcing for routine and project work.\n * Requirements \u0026 process mastery in manufacturing environments: Analyze and interpret complex manufacturing datasets, identify trends/patterns, and recommend actions that improve process performance, yield, cycle time, scrap, and compliance outcomes (as applicable to the domain).\n * Build dashboards and reporting products: Design and implement dashboards and ad-hoc reporting solutions; educate and train user communities on effective use of BI products.\n * Databricks-centric data work: Use Databricks (SQL/warehouses, curated tables/views) to enable governed, performant analytics consumption and scalable reporting.\n * Data integrity \u0026 validation: Apply best practices in testing, validation, usability checks, and documentation; research and document data integrity issues using SQL/BI tools.\n * AI tools \u0026 techniques to accelerate insight: Apply AI-assisted approaches (e.g., summarization, insight generation, semantic search, or model-enabled analytics) to reduce time-to-insight and improve stakeholder decision velocity; partner with data science/engineering as needed for productionization paths. (Role expectations align with business analyst + DS/ML collaboration patterns in internal operating guidance.)\n\n\n\nFunctional Knowledge\n\n * Experience with data modeling, metric governance, and semantic layers to enable trusted self-service analytics.\n * Exposure to AI/ML concepts (prompting patterns, LLM-assisted summarization/insight generation, basic model evaluation, or partnering with DS teams). [\n * Manufacturing systems familiarity\n\n\n\nBusiness Expertise\n\n * Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services\n\n\n\nLeadership\n\n * May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity \n\n\n\nProblem Solving\n\n * Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions\n\n\n\nImpact\n\n * Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies\n\n\n\nInterpersonal Skills\n\n * Ability to communicate complex concepts, negotiate tradeoffs, and influence stakeholders to align on definitions, metrics, and actions.\n\n\n\n\nThe Business Analyst (B4) leads complex analytics initiatives that translate manufacturing and operational needs into actionable insights, scalable datasets, and intuitive dashboards. This role partners with stakeholders across manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and engineering to define requirements, build analytic strategies, and deliver self-service reporting using Tableau and Databricks, while applying AI-assisted techniques to accelerate insight generation and decision-making. The role requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise, independent execution, and the ability to lead projects or workstreams with moderate complexity.\n\n## Qualifications\n\n### Education:\n\nBachelor\u0027s Degree\n\n### Skills\n\n### Certifications:\n\n### Languages:\n\n### Years of Experience:\n\n7 - 10 Years\n\n### Work Experience:\n\n## Additional Information\n\n### \n\n### Shift:\n\n40-Day Swing (United States of America)\n\n### \n\n### Travel:\n\nYes, 10% of the Time\n\n### \n\n### Relocation Eligible:\n\nYes\n\n### Referral Payment Plan:\n\nEmployee Referral (Standard)\n\nU.S. Salary Range:\n\n$122,000.00 - $168,000.00\n\nThe salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable. \n\nFor all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.\n\nApplied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. \n