Title; SENIOR BI ENGINEER
St. Louis, MO (Hybrid 3days onsite)
Job Description
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)