Open position
The BI Manager is responsible for leading the strategic design and maintenance of business intelligence applications. The candidate manages a team of analysts and developers who facilitate business intelligence processes and procedures development and implementation.
I. Job Description:
· Business requirement
o Interview end users to determine requirements for data, reports, analyses, metadata, training, service levels, data quality, and performance
o Work with analysts and developers to translate requirements into functional and technical specifications and documentation
o Ensure the proposed implementation scales and serves a long-term business need
o Ensure the quality of the delivered projects and the adoption of the completed projects by the business users
· Business project management
o Work with multiple business constituencies, effectively manage their expectations, estimate projects, and establish priorities
o Maintain a BI roadmap, set BI-weekly sprints, communicate to business constituencies the content and status of sprints
o Drive the completion of projects within the established scope and within the agreed SLAs, while simultaneously planning for and managing unknown future BI requirements in a dynamic environment
o Sell, evangelize, and motivate business users to contribute time to the effort, and constantly reinforce the role of BI in the business
· Data architecture
o Define and manage the data structures required to support the company
o Represent the data so it can be understood uniformly throughout the company
o Ensure up to date documentation of the data structures / tables / fields
· ETL architecture
o Determine the optimal approach for obtaining data from diverse source system platforms and moving it to the BI
o Designs and implement the infrastructure used by ETL specialists
o Establish and enforce technical standards for deliverables of projects
· Human resources
o Drive consistency and high standards across projects and people
o Hire, manage and train a team of analysts and developers
· Education & experience
o Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Systems or Finance/Accounting
o 5+ years related experience with progressive growth in responsibility and scope
o Leadership of a BI or software development team
· Specific knowledge
o Advanced data visualization tool knowledge (Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
o BI practices and concepts, data modeling, ETL processes, and data warehousing
o Experience with SQL Server Reporting and SSIS (Power BI preferred)
· Other requirements
o Solid understanding of both the business and the technical aspects of BI
o Demonstrated ability to turn end-user requirements into actionable tools and insights
o Proficiency in providing support and training for BI solutions and BI toolsets
o Project management skills, and advanced understanding of the full reporting delivery life cycle, from requirements definition to report development and testing required