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.