Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Development / Support Analyst

SUMMARY:
Ulwembu is a leading IT Consulting company and we are looking for the best IT skills from qualified, experienced and energetic professionals! If you are a Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Developer/ Support Analyst that meets all the stipulated requirements applicants with Certificates, send us your CV cmthembi@ulwembubs.com

POSITION INFO:

Experience: Must have:

• A minimum of five years’ experience in a business intelligence development environment using the PowerBI toolset. 
• Must have experience in the Kimball methodology 
• Must be proficient in SQL and PL/SQL 
• Dimensional data modelling experience 
• Experience in working with multi-dimensional cubes
• Project exposure (waterfall and/or agile methodologies) 

Advantageous: 

• Proficient in at least one other BI toolset (Qlikview, Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau, Cognos etc.) 
• Essbase experience would be advantageous 
• Working knowledge on Qlikview, SAS 
• Experience of working in an agile development environment. Disciplined Agile Development (DAD) experience will be an added advantage 
• Working knowledge on Python and/or R

Competencies: 

• Proficiency in English (both verbal and written skills); 
• Client Orientation 
• Verbal and written communication 
• Managing Work/Time management 
• Problem solving and analysis 
• Contributing to Team Success 
• Proven ability to accurately estimate work 
• Pays attention to details

Qualifications/ Certification: 

• A degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Business Administration / Commerce or equivalent Advantageous 
• PowerBI certified

Key deliverables: 

• Participate in the interpretation of business requirements and functional specifications as provided by the business analyst into BI solution designs 
• Analysis Services reporting models. 
• Created star schemas in the repository. 
• Developing visual reports, dashboards and KPI scorecards using Power BI desktop. 
• Design and develop reports, graphs, analytics, KPIs on the desktop and mobile platforms for analysis purposes in line with the business requirements 
• Set up security to authenticate users and grant permissions and privileges to appropriate users thus facilitating efficient web use in a large environment.
• Connecting to data sources, importing data and transforming data for Business Intelligence 
• Develop and maintain documentation (System Design/Requirement Specification, Source specification and test documentation) 
• Able to implement row level security on data and have an understanding of application security layer models in Power BI. 
• Proficient in making DAX queries in Power BI desktop. 
• Expertise in using advance level calculations on the data set. 
• Responsible for design methodology and project documentation. 
• Able to develop tabular and multidimensional models that are compatible with warehouse standards. 
• Assist in establishing accurate project timelines and development methodology 
• Be able to take high-level tasks and break them into detailed actions and tasks to be completed 
• Provide input to the overall project planning process by assisting in establishing accurate project timelines actions required and realistic timeframes for completion of those tasks and actions 
• Participate in workshops with business owners and stakeholders in respect of clarification of detailed requirements and solutions to those requirements 
• Deliver allocated project tasks and actions according to agreed quality and timeframes 
• Ensure that detailed tasks and actions are allocated and completed to limit and mitigate risk within the allocated projects
• Develop training manuals, training plans and presenting training courses to support new solution implementations 
• Staying abreast of changes to analytical tools and methodologies

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