Senior Business Intelligence Engineer Job Posting
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Senior Business Intelligence Engineer - Microstrategy - Boston, MA
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| Company: | Nexmation |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | NA |
| Date Posted: | Jul-26-12 |
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Title: Senior Business Intelligence Engineer
Location: Bedford, MA
Group: Reporting and Visualization
Reports to: Director of Engineering
Description:
The Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (MicroStrategy) will work within the Reporting and Visualization team to create the MicroStrategy Schema Objects for the projects, as well as design, develop, test, maintain and support data analytics and reporting solutions. The individual will work closely in a team consisting of Solutions Architects, Data Warehouse Engineers, Business Analysts, System Analysts, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Database Administrators in developing complex MicroStrategy reports / applications and data warehouse solutions to meet stated requirements, as well as help in developing detailed specifications and unit test plans for implementation.
Responsibilities:
Design and architect the MicroStrategy Schema Objects and create complex MicroStrategy reports and Dynamic Dashboards, utilizing advanced components such as: custom groups, consolidations, advanced metrics, filters, extensive knowledge/experience of graphs and tuning of VLDB properties.
Provide innovative creative reporting solutions to complex business goals, including design, development and implementation of reports and documents.
Perform detailed data analysis, validation, and identify data quality issues.
Tune MicroStrategy reports for best SQL performance to run efficiently in a large data volume environment.
Create/Manage ad-hoc reports as requested and provide on-going analytical support for these requests.
Design and Create MicroStrategy Schema Objects for Reports and Dashboards.
Assess new initiatives to determine the work effort and estimate the necessary time-to-completion.
Create test plans and scenarios for development unit testing.
Work with peers to carry out unit testing of new development.
Document new development, procedures or test plans as needed.
Participate in data builds and deployment efforts.
Participate in projects through various phases.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Skill:
Must be passionate, flexible and innovative in utilizing all up to date available tool functionality, experience, and any other resources, to effectively deliver to very challenging and always changing business requirements with continuous success.
Must be able to interface with various stakeholder groups to understand the requirements and prepare documentation to support development.
Must understand complex object design and the underlying data model of the system, as well as have a highly skilled attention to the business requirements details.
Must have a clear understanding of BI, Data Warehouse operating environments and related technologies.
Minimum 1-3 years experience in MicroStrategy 8/9 Desktop, Architect, Report Services - Dynamic Dashboards, Web, Intelligence Server, Distribution Services, Multisource, Clustering, OLAP Services and Office.
Ability to coach and mentor others on the design, development, and usage of the MicroStrategy product suite.
Strong native SQL skills
Strong experience in data warehousing concepts and techniques.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment.
Ability to complete the full lifecycle of software development and deliver on time.
Ability to work w/end users to gather requirements and convert that to working documents.
Strong interpersonal skills w/a heads-up programming attitude.
Required Experience and Education:
Three to five+ years of experience in a related position demonstrating the position responsibilities outlined above.
Bachelor's Degree or eight+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Location: Bedford, MA
Group: Reporting and Visualization
Reports to: Director of Engineering
Description:
The Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (MicroStrategy) will work within the Reporting and Visualization team to create the MicroStrategy Schema Objects for the projects, as well as design, develop, test, maintain and support data analytics and reporting solutions. The individual will work closely in a team consisting of Solutions Architects, Data Warehouse Engineers, Business Analysts, System Analysts, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Database Administrators in developing complex MicroStrategy reports / applications and data warehouse solutions to meet stated requirements, as well as help in developing detailed specifications and unit test plans for implementation.
Responsibilities:
Design and architect the MicroStrategy Schema Objects and create complex MicroStrategy reports and Dynamic Dashboards, utilizing advanced components such as: custom groups, consolidations, advanced metrics, filters, extensive knowledge/experience of graphs and tuning of VLDB properties.
Provide innovative creative reporting solutions to complex business goals, including design, development and implementation of reports and documents.
Perform detailed data analysis, validation, and identify data quality issues.
Tune MicroStrategy reports for best SQL performance to run efficiently in a large data volume environment.
Create/Manage ad-hoc reports as requested and provide on-going analytical support for these requests.
Design and Create MicroStrategy Schema Objects for Reports and Dashboards.
Assess new initiatives to determine the work effort and estimate the necessary time-to-completion.
Create test plans and scenarios for development unit testing.
Work with peers to carry out unit testing of new development.
Document new development, procedures or test plans as needed.
Participate in data builds and deployment efforts.
Participate in projects through various phases.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Skill:
Must be passionate, flexible and innovative in utilizing all up to date available tool functionality, experience, and any other resources, to effectively deliver to very challenging and always changing business requirements with continuous success.
Must be able to interface with various stakeholder groups to understand the requirements and prepare documentation to support development.
Must understand complex object design and the underlying data model of the system, as well as have a highly skilled attention to the business requirements details.
Must have a clear understanding of BI, Data Warehouse operating environments and related technologies.
Minimum 1-3 years experience in MicroStrategy 8/9 Desktop, Architect, Report Services - Dynamic Dashboards, Web, Intelligence Server, Distribution Services, Multisource, Clustering, OLAP Services and Office.
Ability to coach and mentor others on the design, development, and usage of the MicroStrategy product suite.
Strong native SQL skills
Strong experience in data warehousing concepts and techniques.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment.
Ability to complete the full lifecycle of software development and deliver on time.
Ability to work w/end users to gather requirements and convert that to working documents.
Strong interpersonal skills w/a heads-up programming attitude.
Required Experience and Education:
Three to five+ years of experience in a related position demonstrating the position responsibilities outlined above.
Bachelor's Degree or eight+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
| Location: | US-MA-Bedford |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | Trim Davis |
| Contact Phone: | 647 247 6832 |
| Contact Email: | t911davis@yahoo.ca |
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