About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a BI Developer Sr. or Lead based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain BI reports, dashboards, data extracts, governed datasets, and ETL/ELT processes.
- Support end-to-end data integration, data mart development, reporting, and analytics solutions, from source systems through downstream consumption.
- Translate complex business requirements into technical specifications, solution designs, source-to-target mappings, and clearly defined business rules.
- Conduct detailed data analysis to support requirements gathering, metric definitions, source validation, and data-quality assessments.
- Develop and maintain dimensional data models, data warehouse components, OLAP cubes, semantic layers, and other analytical structures as required.
- Perform unit testing and support output validation, data reconciliation, and business acceptance criteria.
- Troubleshoot reports, data extracts, ETL/ELT processes, scheduled jobs, and production data solutions.
- Conduct root-cause analysis for data, reporting, and pipeline issues, documenting resolutions and preventive measures.
- Support user acceptance testing, release planning, change management, and deployment activities.
- Maintain production readiness through effective scheduling, orchestration, monitoring, incident triage, and operational support practices.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including business rules, data lineage, technical specifications, source-to-target mappings, runbooks, and support procedures.
- Support data governance, metadata management, data stewardship, reporting standards, and data-quality initiatives.
- Help maintain appropriate access controls and ensure the secure handling of sensitive information.
- Promote consistency, reliability, and compliance across data development and reporting processes.
- Identify and implement improvements to the performance, reliability, automation, efficiency, and supportability of existing BI solutions.
- Contribute technical expertise to projects, system enhancements, and enterprise-wide initiatives.
- At the Lead level, guide technical decisions, establish and improve development standards, mentor developers and analysts, and coordinate the resolution of complex production issues.
- Lead complex initiatives involving data integration, ETL/ELT, data modeling, data warehousing, and enterprise analytics solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of relevant experience in IT, business intelligence, data engineering, data integration, reporting, or analytics delivery.
- Demonstrated experience developing and supporting enterprise data solutions in production environments.
- Advanced SQL skills using Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or another leading relational database management system.
- Strong experience developing reports and dashboards using tools such as Microsoft Reporting Services, Power BI, Business Objects, or Cognos.
- Hands-on experience building ETL/ELT processes using Microsoft Integration Services or other data integration technologies.
- Experience supporting data extracts, integrations, data marts, governed datasets, and downstream reporting or analytics.
- Knowledge of dimensional data modeling, data warehousing methodologies, OLAP cubes, semantic layers, and analytical data models.
- Familiarity with data-quality processes, including validation, exception reporting, reconciliation, and quality metrics.
- Working knowledge of production support practices, including scheduling, orchestration, monitoring, incident management, root-cause analysis, and operational readiness.
- Ability to prepare and maintain technical specifications, source-to-target mappings, business rules, lineage documentation, runbooks, and support procedures.
- Understanding of data governance, metadata, stewardship, reporting governance, access controls, and the secure handling of sensitive data.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex data issues and recommend effective solutions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Additional requirements for Lead-level consideration: Generally, seven or more years of related experience, demonstrated