Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Job Description

Essential duties:

The position’s essential duties include the following:

• Serve as technical team lead in the development of business intelligence reports and analysis, providing mentoring, guidance and troubleshooting to analysis team members in solving complex reporting and analytical problems

• Manage reporting environment including report data sources, security, subscriptions and metadata

• Assist in initiative towards data normalization and data integrity across the enterprise

• Assist Data Warehouse Engineer in identifying and revising enterprise reporting requirements

• Evaluate, test and implement new or upgraded software

• Troubleshoot reported problems pertaining to reports and the reporting database environment, working closely with other IT members, especially DBAs, Systems Analysts and Systems Engineers, identifying the cause and designing or developing an approach for resolution

• Assess impact of changes and updates to source production systems, planning and implementing resulting changes to reports

• Conduct end user training on reporting system

Technical experience:

• Knowledge of Relational Databases - 12 years

• Knowledge of Columnar Databases or columnar storage - 5 years

• SQL Programming - 12 years

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or above - 8 years

• SQL Server Management Studio - 4 years

• SQL Server Integration Services - 4 years

• SQL Server Analysis Services - 2 years

• Pentaho BI Suite - 5 years

• PDI ETL - 5 years

• Pentaho Analytics/Reporting - 5 years

• Microsoft Excel - 4 years

• Microsoft Access - 1 year

• Microsoft Visio - 2 years

• Data Modelling - 4 years

• Data Warehousing - 5 years

NOTE: In addition, this is desired experience.

• Microsoft SQL Server 2018/2020

• Client Vertica

• Amazon Redshift

• Pentaho BI Suite

• Pentaho PDI

• Any other BI Tools like Business Objects, Cognos, etc.

• Team Foundation Server

• ERwin

• TOAD for Oracle

• Creating visual displays for data analysis and presentation

Special skills:

• Ability to track records in entity relationship and dimensional modeling.

• Ability to translate logical models into physical implementation.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are an absolute must.

• Ability to work well under pressure and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Outstanding analytic skills—in particular, an ability to translate an unstructured strategic question into a structured program of research, to disaggregate potential drivers of performance, to explore relationships between multiple pieces of data, and to test and identify the drivers underlying performance measures

• Outstanding ability to synthesize research results into actionable strategies and recommendations

• Advanced verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present effectively to small and large groups.

• Energetic, organized, detail-oriented

• Consistent ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Must be strong self-starter able to work independently under limited supervision

• Ability to build consensus and to work through others in achieving desired results and objectives.

• Consistent ability to set and deliver against a work plan in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to foster a cooperative work environment and to freely give and receive feedback

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.

• Ability to lift 15 – 25 pounds

• General computer and presentation skills

• Customer and results oriented