Position               : Microsoft BI Architect
Job Location       : Chicago, IL
Duration              : 12+ months

 
RESPONSIBILITIES:
•  Architect, design, and develop & enhance BI solutions including data warehouse
•  Using SDLC methodology to perform requirement gathering, functional analysis, technical design, development, testing, and deployment
•  Designing, developing, and testing data management matching, merging, consolidation, purging, and cleansing and extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) functionality
•  Apply Microsoft BI expertise in system architecture design and hands on development and maintenance of BI systems
•  Designing, building and enhancing data marts, and analytic engines
•  Installing, configuring, and, if necessary, customizing analytics management tools
•  Designing, developing, maintains, and support all BI reports
•  Designing, developing, maintains, and support interface ETL code
•  Assist with hardware, software, and data communications architecture and sizing
•  Contribute to the development and support of ongoing production services
•  Partners with business departmental teams to define and document business requirements
•  Create new reports and dashboards
•  Queries, analyzes, and interprets complex data stored in the target systems
•  Identify data quality issues and see through to resolution
•  Test and validate data flow and reports

 REQUIREMENTS:
•  8+ years of working knowledge of architecture, design and development of scalable Business Intelligence solutions for a large data warehouse, using different architecture, design and modeling techniques
•  Extensive knowledge of database management systems, replication concepts, data warehouse systems and business intelligence tools
•  Understanding of SQL Server 2012, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS including dimensional Modelling, SharePoint BI Integration, Administration of Servers
•  Advanced grasp of Relational database design and Multidimensional & Tabular design concepts
•  5+ years of experience in data movement/ETL concepts and tools like Microsoft SSIS, SSRS, and/or SSAS including programming languages like T-SQL, PL/SQL etc. is desired
•  5+ years of experience of building impactful reports and dashboards using major BI toolsets.
•  Experience in developing IT architecture plans and software development methodologies, collaboration and leadership
•  Must be able to provide simplified and standardized solutions to achieve the business objectives
•  Well versed with database administration tasks, SQL and MDX concepts
•  Keep current with Business Intelligence best practices and operational requirements
•  Strong analytical, multi-tasking and problem solving skills along with strong communication and teak work skills
•  Mentor and train BI team resources in the Microsoft BI technology stack and best practices