IT Sr Analyst -Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse Analys

Summary:

The IT Sr Analyst position will be responsible for providing technical and functional support to the Business Intelligence / Data Analytics team. The IT Sr Analyst will work under minimal direction and must be competent to work on all phases of business and data analysis to provide technical solutions to complex business and systems opportunities, enhancements and issues. Working as part of a wider global team composed of business users, business analysts, consultants, developers, and project managers, the IT Sr Analyst will drive solutions within cross functional teams. This role has both internal and external facing components. The ability to analyze, organize, and model data is a must. The IT Sr Analyst will facilitate the development and maintenance of various data models, data warehouses and repositories on both legacy and emerging technologies.

Role and Responsibilities: 

 Gather requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis. 

 Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs. 

 Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and both technical and functional requirements to deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Technical Requirements, Data Models, Data Interface Diagrams, ETL Logic, and Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs) 

 Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously across multiple business domains and technologies

 Work independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers 

 Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans 

 Serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development and support teams both internally and externally developed solutions.

 Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language. 

 Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. 

 Conduct appropriate training / demonstrations as necessary.

Qualifications:

 A minimum BA/BS degree and 6 years of IT professional experience

 A minimum of 3 years business analysis experience

 A minimum of 3 years data analysis, modeling experience, and ETL

 A minimum of 3 years System Administration experience ( Windows Server, RedHat, UNIX)

 A minimum of 3 years Database Administration experience ( MS SQL Server, Oracle)

 Recent hands-on experience in delivery, integration, configuration and documentation of BI solutions

 Experience with a systems development lifecycle methodology

 Experience producing technical and architecture artifacts including business process, application, data, integration, and infrastructure diagrams

 Oracle, SQL Server, ETL, Data Warehouse, Emerging Technologies experience required

 Experience with project deployments using Amazon Web Services (AWS) including S3, EMR, RDS, Redshift, etc.

 Experience with Hadoop, R, Big Data, and programming preferred

 SAP BW, Cognos & Oracle experience preferred

 Knowledge of GxP and SOX regulations are preferred

Soft Skills:

 Strong, professional bearing a must

 Ability to multi-task with minimal supervision and achieve results

 Ability to excel in a team environment 

 Ability to work with and influence a contracted labor force