Business Analytics Developer

Description

SUMMARY OF JOB DUTIES Meet with business stakeholders to identify and scope business intelligence opportunities, document business requirements, outline potential project value and return on investment (ROI), and identify project risks and constraints.Lead development projects as required, including requirements gathering and definition, analysis, planning, data modeling, development, testing, deployment, user training, user documentation, and support.Assume project management responsibilities as requiredSupport, enhance and document the Customer Profitability Analysis Reporting (CPAR) custom solution Create and deploy additional custom based solutions within the arena of SAP BW/BI/Custom reporting and analysis Consult with SMEs to analyze and resolve issuesWork with Team members and SMEs to provide enhancement analysis, project analysis, architecture and deploymentDesign, develop, test, and deploy BW query/report designs, BW cube (Data Warehouse) architectures/designs and activations, data flow/process chain setups and extractionsAct as team member on development projects outside the BI arena as required.Document software changes in accordance with proscribed documentation procedures.Other duties as required MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (special skills, knowledge, ability, education, etc.) Bachelors degree required, Masters degree preferred8+ years of overall development experience5+ years of VB knowledge in VBS, VBA, .Net spaces5+ years of OO experience on both a functional as well as a technical level, C# preferred over Java.3+ years working with database toolsAbility to translate technical requirements to SMEs via pseudo code and thoroughly created architecture documents.Basic principles of Project Management including Time management, Document management, Delivery management, Scope management, etc.Proven record and ability to write proper technical architectural documents as well as knowledge transfer based SME documents.Positive attitude and willingness to cooperateExposure to principles and methodologies of SAP BI reporting and DW (Data warehousing) solutions. Understanding of OLAP, denormalized data model, dimensions, granularity, ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Load) processes, fact tables, Datamarts, data security, etc.Familiar with one (1) or more BI tools of any BI vendor BW (SAP), Cognos (now IBM), Business Objects (now SAP), Hyperion (now Oracle), Microsoft Analysis Service, etc.High comfort with MS OS and limited programming of OS based scripts.Exposure via project work to prior Sales/Marketing/Manufacturing based BI reporting solutions.Excellent written and verbal communication skillsAbility to act as both a student to more experienced developers and as a mentor to more junior developersExposure to financial principals highly preferred