Senior BI Engineer- Platform Admin

About The Position

• Provides proactive technical administration, planning, coordination, documentation, and management reporting for business intelligence platforms throughout the organization.

• Coordinates business intelligence platform project and support activities. Contributes to report design and development to help ensure optimal performance.

• Perform system monitoring and tuning, report object backup and restore, proactive system maintenance, report SQL tuning, and the planning and installation of platform upgrades and patches.

• Manages BI platform security, including development and monitoring of policies and procedures. Administers user rights and license management.

Key responsibilities include:

• Performs administration activities related to hundreds of reporting and visualization capabilities.

• Ensures high availability, reliability, consistently high throughput and system performance, and high levels of customer service and trust.

• Performs system tuning and performance monitoring, and troubleshoots and resolves performance issues with a high level of urgency.

• Maintain, and support production server and other non-production environments for upgrades, bug fixes, and patching.

• Coordinate & Support application releases and configuration management.

• Provide escalated technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status.

• Ensures security and the compliance of regulations by protecting the confidentiality of information within the environment by preventing unauthorized access to information.

• Assists with capital procurement by providing expert consultation on system sizing and license growth, software installations and upgrades.

• Proactively researches, consults, and recommends technology enhancements, always seeking continuous improvement.

• Partners with database administrators, developers, management, system users and software/hardware vendors.

• Builds an understanding of existing systems, databases, and procedures and follows corporate policies when executing projects

• Applies best practices and established procedures to analyze data and identify trends

• Assists in ongoing maintenance and support of reporting and analytics applications

• Engages with business stakeholders to develop an understanding of their operations and define how analytics can solve key business problems

• Demonstrates a bias for action by hitting deadlines, communicating with project stakeholders, and producing polished outputs

• Partners effectively with other departments to fully define analytics requirements for solving business problems, sometimes going beyond the initial ask of business colleagues

• Mentors less experienced co-workers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science or business

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Master’s and/or Ph.D. in a technical discipline e.g., engineering, mathematics, statistics, finance/economics or business management) may replace a maximum of 2 years of experience.

• Strong technical expertise in PowerBI and OBIEE/OAC

• PowerBI admin experience is preferred.

 Relational databases and writing queries (SQL)