Business Intelligence Architect Job Posting

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Job Title:	Business Intelligence Architect
Job ID:	30056
Company:	INTEQNA
Position Type:	Permanent
Pay Rate:	up to $140,000
Skills:	Business Objects, Teradata, Oracle, SAP BW and BI
Date Posted:	Jul-10-09

Our client is the leading retail player in Canada. In support of several new initiatives in their head office IT department they are searching for an experienced Business Intelligence Architect for a new full time position. The BI Architect/Designer will provide Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions with particular emphasis on strong Business Object skills along with strong skills in either Oracle or Teradata. Depth in standards and governance in large Enterprises is most important particularly with regards for the Data and the overall Architecture.
Experience with SAP Business Warehouse (BW), SAP Business Intelligence (BI) Suite would be nice to have including experience in the creation of universes at the data layer. You will translate functional Business Intelligence Architecture into technical designs, confirm technical gaps and work directly with our client's Data Services team to ensure standards and governance are embedded in the Business Intelligence Architecture including Extractors, Operational Data Stores, Cubes, Infosets and Data Structures/Transformation Rules.
Your specific duties and responsibilities would include:
• Understand the Enterprise Information Strategy and ensure BI Architecture is understood and incorporated into strategic and tactical plans
• Establish business relationships to ensure the BI Architecture and the Enterprise Information Management Strategy is understood
• Lead the development and evolution of Enterprise Information Management Strategy including our overall Information Architecture.
• Play a lead role on Information Management projects by providing BI Architecture solutions and ensuring alignment with overall information management strategies.
• Contribute substantially to overall software architecture, and take ownership of the design and development of the business layer, semantic layer & reporting solution
• Provide guidance to development application areas by applying knowledge of BI solutions, toolsets, design patterns, and standards
• Participate, as appropriate, in design and code reviews, documentation of design, and implementation of methodologies to ensure high quality software.
• Provide strategic thinking, solutions and roadmaps while driving architectural recommendations.
• Assist with establishing and communicating SLA's/Metrics to measure availability of critical services
• Ongoing responsibility to ensure BI knowledge is harvested and shared within BI/PM knowledge repositories
• Ensure that business and technical metadata is maintained holistically by partnering with business, data management and development teams.
• Ensure the development and maintenance of logical data models and physical data base designs applied across FPII applications.

To be considered for this role your background should include the following:
• Strong knowledge of Business Objects with a minimum of 3 years experience as a Business Objects Architect or Lead Developer
• Overall 5 years experience in Architecture using Oracle or Teradata
• experience with SAP BW and BI would be an asset
• Experience using third party Reporting & Analytical tools (Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Hyperion, MicroStrategy, Cognos) in a Decision Support / Business Intelligence environment is strongly preferred.
• Data and Business Intelligence Architecture experience, including; experience in logical, access, and physical data modeling; hands-on technical experience leveraging data warehouse, business intelligence and analytics products; and experience with normalized and dimensional data modeling.
• Experience with developing and maintaining BI strategy plans and roadmaps.

Prefer Full-time but client will also consider a contractor.

Location:	Canada-ON-Toronto
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
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Contact Email:	rnorris@inteqna.com
URL:	http://www.inteqna.com
Contact Comments:
Candidate must be legally entitled to work in Canada with no encumberances. Only those candidates selected for foll0w-up will be contacted.

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