Business Objects Developer

BUSINESS OBJECTS DEVELOPER

Randstad Professionals are one of the leading recruitment companies in Switzerland and with a dedicated IT contracting team in Zurich. We are excited to help you in your search. We focus on finding the best contracts for the best contractors.

Currently we are looking for an BUSINESS OBJECTS DEVELOPER to join our client's team in Zurich.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Web Intelligence report development and testing following the development life cycle.
- Applying and advocating best practice programming standards, concepts and techniques.
- Liaising with stakeholders to gather reporting requirements.
- Effectively translating end user reporting requirements into functional design documents.
- Liaising with technical teams to get new data reporting requirements into the data warehouse and Business Objects Universe.
- Building SIT test cases, performing comprehensive SIT testing as required and providing support during UAT.
- Mentoring less experienced team members.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement and maintenance of the data dictionary and reporting solution.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

ESSENTIAL:

- Development of complex Business Objects Web Intelligence reports
- Experience with complex Webi variables and calculation contexts.
- Solid understanding of best development practices in Business Objects.
- SQL - complex understanding and authoring.
- Ability to understand how changes to source systems can affect reporting outputs.
- Business Analysis and Interpretation of requirements.
- Experience with testing of report changes, regression testing and reconciliation to source and requirements.
- Experience with the creation of technical documentation.
- Ability to work in a fast moving and constantly changing environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to explain advanced concepts to audiences of varying technical levels

DESIRED:

- Investment banking, Credit Risk experience, preferable.
- Architecture and Business Objects Server Side configuration.
- Business Objects CMC and security model.
- Any Java experience a bonus.
- JIRA.
- ALM - Quality Center
- Business Objects understanding of complex universe
- Oracle SQL
- Business Objects BI 4.1.
- Kimball DW Data models, slowly changing dimensions, multi grained facts, bridge tables etc.
- Experience of working in Banking and Financial Services

Whether this role is the right fit or you would like to see if there are others that do, our dedicated and expert team is looking forward to hearing from you.

Good to know you!