Overview

About EXPR

EXPR is a multi-brand fashion retailer whose portfolio includes Express, Bonobos and UpWest. The Company operates an omnichannel platform as well as physical and online stores. Grounded in a belief that style, quality and value should all be found in one place, Express is a brand with a purpose - We Create Confidence. We Inspire Self-Expression. - powered by a styling community. Bonobos is a menswear brand known for exceptional fit and an innovative retail model. UpWest is an apparel, accessories and home goods brand with a purpose to Provide Comfort for People & Planet.

The Company has over 530 Express retail and Express Factory Outlet stores in the United States and Puerto Rico, the Express.com online store and the Express mobile app; over 60 Bonobos Guideshop locations and the Bonobos.com online store; and 13 UpWest retail stores and the UpWest.com online store. EXPR is traded on the NYSE under the symbol EXPR. For more information about our Company, please visit www.express.com/investor and for more information about our brands, please visit www.express.com, www.bonobos.com or www.upwest.com.

Responsibilities

The right candidate for this role has a positive do-it attitude, is a team player and rallies other team members in solving problems, and at the same time is seeking abundant opportunities to learn, innovate and grow.

The Sr. Software Developer role specific to Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics specific. It is responsible for developing & maintaining robust enterprise level solutions using Microstrategy and other technologies. This is a hands-on technical role that involves a variety of tasks; starting with seeking reporting requirements from functional partners all the way to deploying solutions in a full software development life cycle. The role regularly interacts with other IT partners in teams belonging to Data Warehouse, Integration, POS, Planning & Allocation, Store Operations and Finance in understanding and identifying data requirements. In addition to deploying new solutions, the role requires Administration of BI Platforms, troubleshooting and enhancement of existing solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engage in design, development, testing, deployment, enhancements and troubleshooting of Business Intelligence Technology solutions.
• Collaborate with business partners, project management and cross-functional technology teams on requirements & design to build new BI solutions or enhancement of existing ones.
• Identify and ensure that data sources and integrations can support the need of BI Solutions and document any gaps.

• Use MicroStrategy platform and other BI technologies like Tableau to deliver business reports and analytics.
• Engage in development activities including development of schema objects, metrics, filters, prompts, custom groups, consolidations and transformations. Build reports, documents, dashboards and dossiers.
• Perform code reviews to ensure all solutions meet architectural, functional and performance requirements.
• Participates in 24/7 production support activity with the team
• Identify and fix issues with existing reporting including any issues in data, integrations, batch processing and performance
• Support a large user base in resolving reported issues
• Participate in administration, upgrades, patching and improvement of deployed technologies
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Mentor junior resources on the team and ensure quality.
• Conduct training sessions for users of Business Intelligence solutions.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent job experience.
• 7 years of experience in delivering enterprise wide Business Intelligence solutions.
• 5 years of extensive working experience on MicroStrategy Platform in the areas of Development, Modelling and Administration.
• Strong ability to understand and analyze data using complex SQL queries
• Strong understanding of relational concepts and knowledge of databases like Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Google Big-Query etc.

• Experience in Troubleshooting, optimization, and tuning of MicroStrategy objects and SQL processes in support of reporting
• Worked in MicroStrategy applications including reports, dashboards/dossiers, data visualization, data discovery, mobile, data marts and cubes
• Preferred familiarity with other BI technologies like Power BI & Tableau
• Preferred ability to code in languages like C#, Powershell, Python etc

• Preferred exposure to Google cloud or similar cloud platforms
• Preferred experience in Retail / Supply Chain industry
• Preferred MicroStrategy certifications Developer and/or Administration streams.

• Experience with Agile Methodologies using Atlassian

CRITICAL SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

• Have good analytical, inter-personal & communication skills, with proactive attitude
• Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative
• Passionate in problem solving.

Closing

An equal opportunity employer, EXPR does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or any other terms and conditions of employment hiring on the basis of any federal, state, or locally protected characteristic. EXPR only hires individuals authorized for employment in the United States. EXPR is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a listed job position, please call 1-800-964-9793 and say 'Associate Relations' or send an e-mail to AssociateRelations@Express.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Notification to Agencies: Please note that EXPR does not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, EXPR will not consider or approve payment to any third-parties for hires made.