DW and BI Technical Devleoper

DW AND BI TECHNICAL DEVELOPER

My client requires an experienced DW and BI Technical Developer to join their project. THE DW & BI TECHNICAL DEVELOPER provides services in support of the organisation's statutory, strategic and operational reporting and analytic needs. This position is expected to spend at least 70% of the time in a hands-on development role in addition to supporting a wide footprint of existing BI Applications.

Core responsibilities include:

- DW & BI Application Support
- DW & BI Application Upgrades
- DW & BI Application Full Development Lifecycle
- Version Control
- Change Control
- Prepare documentation for requirements, report, interface and design specifications in support of Business needs.
- Actively participate in ETL, Data Warehouse Modeling, OLAP and Dashboard design, documentation of processes supported by the team, and BI solution delivery
- Participate in or lead the analysis, design, development, testing, documentation, implementation, and support of BI technology solutions for business processes
- Provides recommendations to improve system functionality and processes within the BI environment.
- Contribute to the  code library for increased development productivity.
- Assist or lead in the definition of BI solutions to functional problems, conforming to established system architecture standards and practices.
- Provide solution delivery & application support expertise for  BI Applications.
- Assist with the maintenance of BI Applications to ensure they are maintained and patched to required levels, including annual security and maintenance patches.
- Partner with external organisations such as Oracle and Microsoft to keep up to date with current BI enabling technologies and implement them effectively
- Participate in the evaluation/implementation of third party software solutions
- Maximize the utilisation of BI applications to improve business processes and achieve optimum return on investment in BI technologies.
- Ensure BI Applications conform to system architecture standards and best practices.
- Project Manage and Report on own workload to agreed plan
- 5+ Years BI experience with proven record.
- 5 + Years BI Development Tools experience (listed below)
- Development & Project Methodologies
- Oracle & Microsoft Database Experience

BI DEVELOPMENT TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES

Oracle 10g/11g

SQL/PL/SQL

Oracle Warehouse Builder

Oracle Analytical Workspace Manager

Enterprise Manager/Grid Control

Oracle Portal/Application Server

Oracle Discoverer 10g

Oracle Reports/Forms

Oracle BI Publisher

Oracle Applications Express

Oracle UPK

Unix/Unix Shell Scripting

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Analysis Services

Microsoft Integration Services

Microsoft Reporting Services

TargIt ANT Server