Business Intelligence Engineer

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ENGINEER SEATTLE, WA 5 MONTH CONTRACT

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Our client manages a financial services ad serving platform (billions of impressions per year) where they offer branded and non-branded payment products and services. This team of high calibre software developers, statisticians and product managers use rigorous quantitative approaches to ensure that they target the right product to the right customer at the right moment, managing tradeoffs between click through rate, approval rates and lifetime value. The team leverages the wealth of the larger org's information to build a wide range of probabilistic models, set up experiments that ensure they are thriving to reach global optimums, and leverage technological infrastructure to display the right offerings in Real Time. This company needs a highly motivated BI/Data Engineer to join in engineering up a world-class analytical platform.

We are looking for an outstanding Business Intelligence Engineer to help our client transition to big data, extract meaning from billions of data points, and automate processes to feed the right data into their machine learning engine. Furthermore, the person should be able to analyze data from dozens of different services, make sense of the results, and be able to communicate them to top management. This company has a culture of data-driven decision-making, and demands Business Intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- You are analytical and creative, and you don't quit.
- Know and love working with Business Intelligence tools, model multidimensional datasets, and partner with customers to answer key business questions.
- Design, implement, and support a platform providing ad hoc and automated access to large datasets.
- Interface with business customers and software developers, gathering requirements and delivering complete reporting solutions.
- Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.
- Participate in strategic and tactical planning discussions and solve difficult problems in building the next generation of our display advertising engine.
- Use data mining, model building, and other analytical techniques to develop and maintain customer segmentation and predictive models to drive the business and improve our machine learning engine.
- Make recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies to improve campaign targeting and measurement in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance or related technical field
- 5+ years of relevant employment experience
- Excellent knowledge of Oracle SQL, Excel, Linux and OLAP, ETL
- Experience in data mining using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
- Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- MS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Machine Learning or related technical field
- Knowledge and direct experience using 4+ Business Intelligence reporting tools (OBIEE, Business Objects, Cognos, MicroStrategy, etc.)
- Experience in gathering requirements and formulating business metrics for reporting
- Experience in online advertising or financial services (credit cards would be ideal)
- Experience with big data and Object Oriented programming languages (Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, etc.)
- Ability to parse log files for large amounts of data
- Experience in Machine learning
- Experience in SAS or R

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