Business Intelligence Architect

This 'hands-on' position provides technical leadership and architecture direction for Western Union business intelligence applications. The BI Architect serves as BI expert, and develops and manages BI products and solutions. The Architect is responsible for developing and delivering BI solutions for the enterprise.
 
This individual should be well versed with multidimensional data structures and should have prior experience of setting BI standards and best practices. He/She should feel comfortable to lead developers (onshore/offshore). It is critical that the Architect does have hands-on installation/configuration/administration/development experience with Business Objects or Cognos or Qlikview or similar tools.

• 10+ years of hands-on development experience in one of the following BI tools: Business Objects, SAS BI, Microsoft, Qlikview etc


• 2 + years of Business Objects or Cognos or other BI tools administration experience


• 10+ years of data warehouse development experience in an Architect or Senior Developer capacity


• Excellent communication skills and ability to mentor and guide junior team members


• Ability to relate to BI industry best practices and past experience in BI tool evaluation, selection and implementation


• 2+ years of development  experience in OLAP technologies like SQL Analysis services or Essbase


• Should have understanding of  integrating BI tools to portal technologies like IBM Websphere, BEA or SharePoint portal


• Should have expert understanding of architecting enterprise BI capabilities


• Ability to interact with business customers and educate the enterprise on the value of BI and analytics


• Hands-on implementation experience with Business Objects is a big plus!


• Experience of developing applications using Qlikview a big plus!