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Posted 03 July, 2026

BI Analyst

Appian Corporation
Chennai, India Full Time
Reference: 102_698333_8035183

The BI Analyst will be an integral part of our award-winning team, focused on leveraging business intelligence tools, including Tableau, to drive data-driven decision-making, provide global end-user support, and ensure continuous improvement for our analytics and reporting platforms. This role involves managing internal user tickets, performing system administration, creating high-impact reports and dashboards, and providing technical guidance and oversight to other team members.

Key Responsibilities:

End-User Support and Issue Resolution

  • Provide timely, global end-user support, documenting, troubleshooting, and resolving requests, incidents, and problems via email and ticketing systems.
  • Critically analyze, triage, and resolve complex issues.
  • Utilize and build decision trees to evaluate and appropriately escalate issues to internal technology teams.
  • Collaborate with Appian's technology team to resolve application issues and provide guidance on system utilization.

System Administration, BI Development, and Team Oversight

  • Provide day-to-day regional oversight, guidance, and mentorship to junior members of the Sales.
  • Perform essential system configuration, maintenance of user roles and profiles for core analytics platforms (e.g., Salesforce).
  • Design, build, and maintain high-impact reports, dashboards, and data visualizations using both Salesforce and Tableau to meet advanced business intelligence needs.

Documentation and Platform Improvement

  • Create and maintain thorough documentation of processes, policies, and application configurations.
  • Update the knowledge base to ensure procedures and known fixes are current and easily accessible.
  • Stay current with platform releases (Salesforce, Tableau, and other BI tools), new features, and best practices, making recommendations to management regarding implementation.
  • Document new requirements when needed.

Stakeholder Collaboration

  • Work with cross-functional stakeholders to clarify system requirements and answer questions about system improvements.
  • Comfortably collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in Salesforce and Tableau.
  • Proven expertise in developing reports, dashboards, and data visualizations using Tableau.
  • Demonstrated experience providing technical oversight, guidance, or mentorship to a team.
  • Proactive, with a continuous improvement mindset and a commitment to data accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated creativity balanced with practicality to meet business objectives and team needs.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills.
  • Ability to quickly master new technology.
  • Ability to work in a hybrid environment part of the day in office and part of the work to be completed from home.
  • Technology/Work Environment: Must have a reliable, high-speed internet connection and a dedicated, quiet workspace.
  • Time Zone Alignment: Ability to align work hours with US EST, i.e. IST 4 PM - 1 AM IST, with an hour-break.

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