Senior Business Intelligence Analyst/Developer

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Location

Chicago

Job Description

As a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst/Developer, you will act as the primary business analyst to define and design leading business intelligence solutions for our clients. The successful candidate should possess a combination of strong business requirements and analysis skills with deep technical expertise in data mart design, reporting and analytics. You will also have previous consulting experience utilizing a structured delivery methodology.

Job Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years experience implementing business intelligence solutions
  • A minimum of 7 years of relevant consulting experience preferred or 10 years of corporate IT
  • Expert dimensional data modeling skills (i.e. star schemas for ROLAP and MOLAP Data Marts)
  • Expert knowledge of Oracle programmable server components (release 9i and 10g)
  • Implementation experience with one or more of the following BI/Enterprise Reporting tools from: Oracle, Business Objects, Cognos, Brio, and Microstrategy
  • Implementation experience with one or more of the following analytics technologies: SAS, Oracle Data Miner, SPSS, KXEN and R.
  • Implementation experience with any of a variety of data visualization and graphical analysis technologies
  • Functional knowledge of Java and J2EE based portal technologies including Oracle Portal, WebSphere Portal, and BEA Portal.
  • Possess strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Possess exceptional client management skills
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Ability to travel to client site as needed
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a relevant field

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate and lead the gathering, consolidation and prioritization of client business requirements
  • Documentation and presentation of business requirements for a variety of audiences including executive sponsors, end users and technical designers.
  • Create end state functional business intelligence vision and implementation plan
  • Design and develop the architecture for all business intelligence solution components (e.g. data marts, reporting, OLAP, analytics, user access privileges/security and portal integration)
  • Design of business intelligence application solutions including database design, report design and analytics integration
  • Oversight of tool evaluation and selection
  • Oversight and/or coordination of user acceptance testing phase
  • Problem and issue resolution
  • Mentoring and developing junior staff
  • Participation in proposal development and client presentations