Sr. Technical Advisor

at  NEC Australia

Company: NEC Corporation of America
Employment Type:
Office Location:Irving, TX, US, 75039
Work Location: Remote/Home
Req ID: 2822
Description:
Job Title: BI & Datawarehousing/Data management Architect
We are a multinational company with offices in the US. We focus on systems integration and consulting, leveraging both business expertise and technology to deliver innovative solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. We offer solutions in the Analytics and Big Data Space and specialize in Operational and Financial Dashboards. We provide clients with tangible business value from the effective use of technology. We work with clients spread around the US. This will be an exciting job with heavy emphasis on travel.
We are looking for strong Analytics & Datawarehousing Architects for our consulting practice. A successful BI Architect will contribute to the success of Design and implementation of Analytics initiatives, and will be responsible for end to end project and program implementations. The Analytics Architect will have to be hands on with 10 and above Datawarehousing projects that he or she has designed, developed and delivered leading a team. Combined business analysis and OLAP/Relational Database technical background and a minimum 10-14 years of workplace experience. Ability to lead user requirements & JAD sessions is a must. The candidate should have strong oral and written communication skills.

Champion best practices on enterprise data management, data integration, dimensional data modeling and visual analytics/self-service data discovery
10+ years of experience in the field of enterprise data management, integration and analytics. Ideal candidate possesses 8+ years of experience in solutions/domain architecture related to business intelligence and analytics utilizing emerging technologies.
Strong business acumen and drive to solve complex business problems using emerging and established technologies in a data driven organization.
Extensive architectural level experience in traditional data warehousing (EDW, ODS, ETL/ELT) as well as emerging big data technologies such as Hadoop, logical data warehouses, cloud based data warehouses with special focus on Amazon Web Services (S3, Redshift, EMR, Sqoop, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Data Pipeline, Spark).
Successful track record of architecting elegant and efficient business intelligence solutions which have had a direct positive impact on desired business outcomes.
Implementing process and proven practices for Security, User maintenance, Operations support, Application Backup and Recovery, BI maintenance, Config Management, Metadata and Report Development Best practices, Naming conventions, Deployment Best practices, Training plan etc.
Exposures to end-to-end BI & Analytics life cycle (requirement gathering, business/data analysis, solution architecture and development, data modeling, data engineering and data visualizations).
Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing enterprise wide visual data exploration & discovery platforms such as Qlik, Tableau.
Experience with services-oriented architecture and supporting technologies, defining services, establishing the service usage patterns within the enterprise including orchestration, composition, messaging patterns.
Strong data engineering and visual analytics background. Prior experience with traditional BI technologies such as IBM Cognos, SAP BOBJ, MicroStrategy, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence suite (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Sharepoint), Informatica, Talend etc.
Experience in agile software development methods, specifically providing architecture leadership as part of an agile organization.
The ideal candidate will be distinguished not only by mastery of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing disciplines, but also by a passionate commitment to end user satisfaction.
Demonstrated expertise in building and managing relationships with business users, project/program management, senior management, business partners, vendors, and consultants.
Mentor Internal DW/BI team and should have strong SDLC background and is process driven.
Maintain a detailed, graphical representation of the entire DW/BI environment. Create and maintain administrative process and standards documentation, as well as a strategy for development, QA, production, and failover environments
Proven ability to develop cube based applications in multiple programming environments
Expert knowledge of emerging technologies
Expert knowledge of Information Security Awareness
Advanced knowledge of General Project Management Methodology & Tools