Greetings Partners, *Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (MicroStrategy)*
*Location: Irvine, CA* *Duration: Long-term* *Position Summary: *The Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (MicroStrategy) will work within the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team to 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, Quality Assurance Engineers and Database Administrators in developing complex MicroStrategy reports / applications and data warehouse solutions to meet stated requirements develop detailed specifications and unit test plans for implementation. *Position responsibilities: * · Design and develop complex MicroStrategy reports and Dynamic Dashboards, utilizing advanced components such as: custom groups, consolidations, advanced metrics, Free Form SQL, extensive knowledge/experience of graphs and tuning of VLDB properties. · Provide innovative creative reporting solutions to complex business goals. · 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 ad-hoc reports as requested and provide on-going analytical support for these requests. · Assist in architecture and migration of MicroStrategy schema objects · 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. *Essential skills, knowledge and abilities:* · 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 business units to understand the requirements and prepare documentation to support development. · Must be capable of understanding the 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 demonstrate a clear understanding of BI, Data Warehouse operating environments and related technologies. · Minimum 3 to 5 years’ experience in MicroStrategy 9x Desktop, Architect, Report Services – Dynamic Dashboards, Web, Intelligence Server, Narrowcast, OLAP Services and Office. · Report development on the Microsoft BI stack – SSRS. · 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 (e.g. Kimball etc.). · 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 with end users to gather requirements and convert that to working documents. · Strong interpersonal skills with a heads-up programming attitude. - Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year College or university; or *four to six years *related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. - Utilize complex computer operations (intermediate programming in 3rd and 4th generation languages, relational databases, and operating systems) and advanced features of software packages (word-processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.). - Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints. Ability to write speeches and articles using original or innovative techniques or style. Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors. - Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. - Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.,) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables. *Non-essential skills, knowledge and abilities: * · MicroStrategy certification (MCE) and familiarity with version 9 a strong plus. · Experience with Agile and Scrum development process desirable. · Experience with Netezza is a plus. · Experience with MicroStrategy SDK is a plus. -- *CHRIS* *Chris@ <[email protected]>ksourceinc.com <http://ksourceinc.com>* *469-213-1611* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hot List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/directclienteq. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
