Responsibilities:
- Lead a reporting team through the entire lifecycle of reporting solutions, from ideation to implementation.
- Offer expert-level guidance to business users and report developers on enterprise reporting tools, actively seeking innovative tools to maximize their value.
- Serve as a lead consultant, determining and fulfilling business user reporting requirements while advocating optimal solutions based on BI best practices.
- Act as a subject matter expert in reporting, acquiring necessary business domain knowledge.
- Provide second-level support for reporting issues.
- Recommend BI tools and assist business users in selecting appropriate tools and reports for their objectives.
- Deliver training solutions for the enterprise as needed.
- Prepare, analyze, and document business requirements.
- Influence the business to test ideas and assumptions using data and analytical tools.
- Act as a project leader/iteration manager on small to medium-sized projects.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of the BI development lifecycle for reporting and data warehouse solutions.
- Exhibit strong communication and soft skills to lead others in consulting and technical engagements.
- Conduct code peer reviews.
Qualifications:
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in information systems or a related field, or possess equivalent education and experience.
- Have 7+ years of experience using MicroStrategy and/or QlikView, with a preference for candidates holding the MicroStrategy Certified Engineer designation.
- Demonstrate expert knowledge of relational database models (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Teradata, Netezza), ETL architecture, and data modeling. SSIS programming experience is a plus.
- Possess 5+ years of SQL programming experience.
- Have experience managing unstructured data in distributed ecosystems like Hadoop (preferred).
- Ability to work independently under general supervision.
- Project management experience is a plus.
- Competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of application systems analysis and programming activities, with experience leading teams without authority.
- Must possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong problem-solving abilities, and the self-motivation to improve skills.
- Demonstrate leadership, professionalism, and preferably an understanding of the insurance business.
- Be a MicroStrategy expert from an administration and architecture standpoint, not limited to report development.
- MSTR Certification is highly desired.
- Knowledge of MSTR Cloud Architecture is highly preferred.
- Must have strong SQL knowledge.
