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Dear Partner,

Hope you are doing great!

Please find below the urgent requirement and let me know if you have any available consultant for the same.

Please share resume at atul.m@directionstaff.com

BI Architect

Location: San Francisco, CA

Duration: 12 months

Mandatory Skills

•                    An undergraduate or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field

•                    10+ years of experience designing, developing, testing and implementing secure, scalable and high-performance BI and analytic solutions; at least 3 years of experience as a BI Architect.

•                    Experience with BI and analytic tools including COGNOS, TM1,  Business Objects and QlikView

•                    Experience with dimensional data modeling and relational databases

•                    Proficient in Agile/Scrum development methodology

•                    Ability to communicate with high proficiency, both verbally and in writing, with all levels of management and staff, in both technical language and business terms.

•                    Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration and negotiation skills

•                    Proficient in developing technical specifications, presentations, training materials, user documentation, and technical documentation.

•                    Demonstrated success with overseeing software development lifecycle for enterprise-wide BI projects

•                    Ability to assess and solve complex technical problems

Job Responsibilities / Role:-

Develop BI and Analytic Architecture Standards and Guidelines

(20% of Time)

•                    Work with Data Architects to develop standards for creating data marts, cubes and universes that serve as a source BI and analytic work products

•                    Develop BI and analytic standards and guidelines

•                    User Interface Design

•                    Data aggregation and drill downs/throughs

•                    Application and data security

•                    Application reliability, scalability and performance

•                    Semantic and business rules

•                    BI and analytic architecture standards

•                    Work closely with functional business analysts to architect efficient and standards-based BI architectures and solutions that satisfy business information reporting needs

•                    Educate technical and business staff on BI and analytic architecture standards and guidelines

•                    Work with Business and IT Stakeholders to Define BI Solutions Designs (40 % of Time)

•                    Work with Business Analysts to understand decision making and information needs

•                    Translate business requirements into BI and analytics technical designs

•                    Propose and demonstrate prototypical BI and analytic solutions that meet business needs

•                    Collaborate with data modelers, DBAs, ETL developers, data scientists and BI developers to design scalable, high performance and usable BI and analytic solutions

•                    Provide expert guidance on the selection and use of BI technologies to solve end user information access needs

•                    Provide Technical Leadership and Oversight for the Development of BI Solutions (30% of Time)

•                    Lead the development of BI solution prototypes that demonstrate performance and usability to business and IT stakeholders

•                    Oversee of the implementation of BI architectures and solutions, including data acquisition process design, use of BI technology features and functions, business rules processing, and data aggregation and summarization techniques

•                    Lead the performance monitoring and tuning of BI solutions

•                    Serve as a technical leader and advisor to IT and departmental BI developers

•                    Oversee the administration of BI and analytic tools, including upgrades, patch fixes, migration, monitoring, configuring and performance tuning

•                    Work with application developers and computer operations to support BI development, test, staging and production environments including daily administration, batch processing, configuration management, environment migration, and tool automation

•                    Serve as an technical escalation point for production issues with BI and analytic solutions

•                    Innovate and Improve the Use of BI and Analytics Across Client (10% of Time)

•                    Champion and educate business and IT staff on the use of the BI technologies for strategic and tactical decision making

•                    Research and evaluate new and emerging BI, analytic and data processing technologies that can help solve pressing Client business problems

•                    Work with vendors and Client stakeholders to carry out product evaluations and proof-of-concepts demonstrations for promising new technologies

Experience Level in Years (Range)        

•                    An undergraduate or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field

•                    10+ years of experience designing, developing, testing and implementing secure, scalable and high-performance BI and analytic solutions; at least 3 years of experience as a BI Architect