What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Developer - Business Intelligence position at Wesco?
As a Senior Developer – Business Intelligence you will be responsible for the architecture, design and development of data solutions. You will be considered as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a variety of data and reporting solutions. While being responsible for providing support and working closely with the dashboard stakeholders. You will also complete reporting projects end-to-end by gathering requirements, designing solutions, extracting data, and deriving insights.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build compelling analyses, trending and/or forecasting reports using Microsoft Power BI.
- Assist in the publishing of metrics dashboards by identifying, analyzing and interpreting trends or patterns in complex data sets.
- Define BI development objectives by analyzing user requirements while envisioning system features and functionality.
- Translate business needs into technical requirements, clearly communicate probable designs and create prototypes.
- Identify risks, barriers, efficiencies, and opportunities when thinking through development approach.
- Write functional requirements, develop test plans, and other standard documentation.
- Follow data and reporting performance optimization and tuning best practices.
- Ensure uniform enterprise-wide integration design standards are maintained.
- Collaborate with IT teams and stakeholders to ensure the architecture is aligned with business requirement.
- Conduct and participate in collaborative technology discussions and provide constructive feedback.
- Monitor trends in technology while researching and building recommendations to implement new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies.
- Troubleshoot performance issues and recommend appropriate actions.
- Provide production support for both new technology and legacy systems.
- Mentor team members and lead by example.
Qualifications:
- Associates’ Degree (U.S.)/College Diploma (Canada) required; Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline preferred
- Power BI or Tableau certified preferred
- 5 - 7 years experience in designing, developing and supporting data and reporting solutions
- 5 - 7 years experience in SQL programming
- 5 - 7 years experience preferred in developing BI applications such as PowerBI, Tableau, OBIEE or similar software
- Azure Data Bricks and Azure Synapse development knowledge is a plus
- Strong skills with data engineering and analyzing data in SQL data warehouses
- Ability to build ad-hoc reporting and preform data engineering
- Experience in working with large data sets
- Ability to quickly shift focus on various development projects as business needs and requirements change
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers and other employees