Data Warehouse Developer

Title:  Data Warehouse Developer

Location: New York City

Experience: 7-10+ years

Job Summary

The Developer must have extensive experience in software analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of Data Warehouse/Data Marts. The Developer will work closely with project managers, IT staff, program staff and other stakeholders to define and develop requirements for the enterprise data warehouse. The Developer will apply a range of specialized skills and tools to complete the following specific duties and responsibilities:

The Developer will use their extensive knowledge of business analysis best practices to facilitate requirements sessions and communicate clearly and effectively with end-users, applications developers, senior business managers and other team members. The Developer will be accountable for providing coordination to ensure the appropriate collection of data; documentation of information; and presentation of findings. The Developer will provide documentation and flow-charts of the organization’s workflow, as well as ad-hoc query support and report creation.

The Developer must have strong technical knowledge and understanding of IT systems and applications as well as the ability to plan and track business analyses activities as part of a project. The Developer also must have good listening skills and interviewing skills to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information. The ideal candidate will also possess good writing skills to ensure effective communication of information to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff.

The Developer will report directly to the CIO, and indirectly to the VP / Application Development Manager, and will play a vital role in helping HCR fulfil its strategic, analytical and operational reporting requirements. The ideal candidate will demonstrate critical thinking skills when solving problems and making recommendations for new solutions.

Responsibilities Include (but not limited to):

• Extensive experience in architecting and designing solutions at Enterprise scale in Enterprise Data warehouse applications.
• Experience in developing Data Warehouse/Data Marts using, as examples, OBIEE, OBI APPS, Cognos, Business Objects, SPSS, SSIS, SSRS, Informatica Power Center, OWB and ODI.
• Experience on design and development of Data Warehouse Architecture for Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Operational data Store (ODS), Operational Data Marts and Data Marts.
• Experience in defining metadata standards for the enterprise data warehouse.
• Experience in design and development of:

• ETL processes using Dimensional Modeling for ROLAP and MOLAP.
• ETL technical architecture.
• BI load dependency plan, job scheduling and cycle management.

• Experience in developing end-to-end Data warehouse ETL routines.

• Experience in using SQL in advanced analytical functions.
• Experience in writing complex PL/SQL packages stored Procedures, functions, cursors, triggers, views, and materialized views.

• Experience in creation of enterprise data Warehouse Test plan, Test script creation and Test Script Execution for different test environments such as System, Integration and User Acceptance.
• Experience developing optimal approach for obtaining data from diverse source system platforms and moving it to the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Experience in Logical and Physical data Models for enterprise data warehouse and applications.
• Experience developing and configuring Interactive Dashboards with drill-down capabilities, links/images, HTML objects and folders.
• Proficient in using the time-series functions to support historical time comparison analysis.
• Experience with Calculated Measures and assigned Aggregation levels based on Dimension Hierarchies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree; MBA or relevant technical degree preferred.
• A strong background in technology, analysis and critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources.
• Experience decomposing high-level information into details, distinguishing user requests from the underlying true needs, and developing solution ideas from requirements.
• Strong experience writing business requirements documentation (BRDs) and functional requirements documentation (FRDs).
• Proven experience successfully working in a team setting and ability to reconcile conflicts.
• Minimum seven 7-10 years of experience in related professional business/project analyst capacity.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in the housing and financial sector is preferred and a major plus, especially around accounting, bonds, mortgages, underwriting, loans origination and servicing; in addition to, experience around grants, tax credits, property/buildings asset management and compliance reporting.
• Excellent experience with MS Office 2013/2016 and above as well as design tools and flowcharting tools, e.g. Visio.