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Title: BI Architect Location: San Francisco, CA Duration: 12 months Healthcare is must. Mandatory Skills . An undergraduate or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field . 10+ years of experience designing, developing, testing and implementing secure, scalable and high-performance BI and analytic solutions; at least 3 years of experience as a BI Architect. . Experience with BI and analytic tools including COGNOS, TM1, Business Objects and QlikView . Experience with dimensional data modeling and relational databases . Proficient in Agile/Scrum development methodology . Ability to communicate with high proficiency, both verbally and in writing, with all levels of management and staff, in both technical language and business terms. . Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration and negotiation skills . Proficient in developing technical specifications, presentations, training materials, user documentation, and technical documentation. . Demonstrated success with overseeing software development lifecycle for enterprise-wide BI projects . Ability to assess and solve complex technical problems Desired Skills . Experience with BI and analytic tools including COGNOS, TM1, Business Objects and QlikView . Experience with dimensional data modeling and relational databases . Proficient in Agile/Scrum development methodology . Ability to communicate with high proficiency, both verbally and in writing, with all levels of management and staff, in both technical language and business terms. . Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration and negotiation skills . Proficient in developing technical specifications, presentations, training materials, user documentation, and technical documentation. . Demonstrated success with overseeing software development lifecycle for enterprise-wide BI projects . Ability to assess and solve complex technical problems . Experience in developing technical staff Job Responsibilities / Role . Develop BI and Analytic Architecture Standards and Guidelines . (20% of Time) . Work with Data Architects to develop standards for creating data marts, cubes and universes that serve as a source BI and analytic work products . Develop BI and analytic standards and guidelines:: . User Interface Design . Data aggregation and drill downs/through . Application and data security . Application reliability, scalability and performance . Semantic and business rules . BI and analytic architecture standards . Work closely with functional business analysts to architect efficient and standards-based BI architectures and solutions that satisfy business information reporting needs . Educate technical and business staff on BI and analytic architecture standards and guidelines Work with Business and IT Stakeholders to Define BI Solutions Designs (40 % of Time) . Work with Business Analysts to understand decision making and information needs . Translate business requirements into BI and analytics technical designs . Propose and demonstrate prototypical BI and analytic solutions that meet business needs . Collaborate with data modelers, DBAs, ETL developers, data scientists and BI developers to design scalable, high performance and usable BI and analytic solutions . Provide expert guidance on the selection and use of BI technologies to solve end user information access needs Provide Technical Leadership and Oversight for the Development of BI Solutions (30% of Time) . Lead the development of BI solution prototypes that demonstrate performance and usability to business and IT stakeholders . Oversee of the implementation of BI architectures and solutions, including data acquisition process design, use of BI technology features and functions, business rules processing, and data aggregation and summarization techniques . Lead the performance monitoring and tuning of BI solutions . Serve as a technical leader and advisor to IT and departmental BI developers . Oversee the administration of BI and analytic tools, including upgrades, patch fixes, migration, monitoring, configuring and performance tuning . Work with application developers and computer operations to support BI development, test, staging and production environments including daily administration, batch processing, configuration management, environment migration, and tool automation . Serve as an technical escalation point for production issues with BI and analytic solutions . Innovate and Improve the Use of BI and Analytics Across (10% of Time) . Champion and educate business and IT staff on the use of the BI technologies for strategic and tactical decision making . Research and evaluate new and emerging BI, analytic and data processing technologies that can help solve pressing business problems . Work with vendors and stakeholders to carry out product evaluations and proof-of-concepts demonstrations for promising new technologies Experience Level in Years (Range) . An undergraduate or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field . 10+ years of experience designing, developing, testing and implementing secure, scalable and high-performance BI and analytic solutions; at least 3 years of experience as a BI Architect Regards, Frank Smith | Talent Head Innovazion Consulting Inc | Essex, CT 06426 Phone: 646-688-3079 | Fax: 860-795-2009 <mailto:frank.sm...@innovazionconsulting.com> frank.sm...@innovazionconsulting.com <http://www.innovazionconsulting.com/> www.innovazionconsulting.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "US_IT.Groups" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to us_itgroups+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to us_itgroups@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/us_itgroups. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
