Description
Growing professional participating in development, configuration, implementation and support of application systems with limited guidance.The position requires a strong background in business intelligence and data management, with a deep MicroStrategy concentration. She/He should have extensive hands-on experience with the various components of the MicroStrategy product catalog. In addition this person should have extensive knowledge and hands-on experience developing simple grid reports to complex documents and dashboards leveraging advanced MicroStrategy objects (e.g. Intelligent cubes and Visual Insight).
She/He will work with the global EDM Development teams, Infrastructure teams, other IT members, business analysts, and external resources.
- Receives general direction. Work in progress is reviewed routinely. Estimates own work effort for input to project planning.
- Interfaces with stakeholders, business analysts, project managers and clients, to gather and clarify requirements.
- Works independently to develop, test, and deploy programs and objects from specifications
- Presents all work in design review and code review sessions to senior team members, and must be able to explain and support decisions made and actions taken.
- Escalates projects delays, issues, risks and highlights to project managers and/or project leads.
- Work with project management and other members of project teams to ensure regular feedback on progress
- Produces documentation for changes and enhancements to current systems under limited guidance.
- Work with the MicroStrategy administrator(s) and Senior Developer(s) to ensure adherence of solutions to QVC standards.
- Work with data modelers to create and maintain consistency and accuracy of all logical and physical data models associated with semantic layer metadata.
- Develop strong partnerships with power user community and work with them to support BI development efforts.
- Develop deep knowledge of QVC business and processes to ensure timely and accurate deliverables of BI content.
- Work with EDM management to abide by QVC Data Governance standards and guidelines.
- Follow SDLC methodology in regards to code development and deployment to ensure compliance.
- Keep current in terms of technology and best practices to ensure QVC’s investment continues to benefit the organization.
- Participate in quality assurance reviews of EDM software components to ensure environment is functioning properly.
- Mentor business and IT partners in MicroStrategy development best practices to continually improve and increase QVC’s BI capabilities.
- Cooperates with and works effectively with other IT team members, sharing knowledge effectively.
- Provides first/second level troubleshooting, technical and operational support with limited guidance.
- Effectively identifies and escalates issues to the right party as appropriate.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience with Business Intelligence (MicroStrategy, Tableau) or Data Warehouse projects (Oracle and SQL Server programming)
- 3+ years of experience working in multiple technical projects through a SDLC
- SCRUM experience is a plus
- Retail Industry is preferred
- Must be proficient with MS Office '07 (or higher)
- English: fluent
Technical Skills
- Technical knowledge of Business Intelligence tools, primarily MicroStrategy including tool configuration and usage, internal structures, architect design concepts, optimization techniques and development of complex objects and documents
- Technical knowledge of relational and dimensional databases, physical database design concepts, database access and query languages
- Experience in development, production support processes and problem resolution according to service-level agreements
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Teamwork
- Problem Solving
- Flexibility
- Proactivity