Senior BI Developer

SUMMARY:
A min of 5 years' experience in a business intelligence development environment using the PowerBI

POSITION INFO:

WE ARE ASSISTING OSNE OF OUR CLIENTS IN THE BANKING SECTOR TO FILL A ROLE OF A SENIOR BI dEVELOPER

THIS IS A CONTRACT ROLE FOR 12 MONTHS

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

Key deliverables:

Participate in the interpretation of business requirements and functional specifications as provided by the business analyst into BI solution designs

Building 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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