Overview:
GovCIO is currently hiring for a Software Programmer 4 (Business Objects Developer). This position will be located in Washington, D.C. and will have a hybrid remote schedule (3 days on site, 2 days at home).

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and other Agile activities
• Estimate Level of Effort (LOE) for backlog items
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple tasks and adhere to project schedules
• Perform data analysis and data profiling against source systems and data warehouse
• Define and prepare solutions for O&M changes to existing reports and universes and deployment of new reports and universes
• Extensively use back end functions, procedures, tables, views required by the business objects universes, used BO functionality like Queries, Slice and Dice, Drill down, @Function, Variables, Breaks, Sorting, alerter, applying of filters, Formulae etc.
• Test solutions to validate whether requirements have been met; develop unit test plans, unit test scripts, and test conditions based on the business and system requirements
• Coordinate and demo prototype reviews and validate that solutions meet requirements and review/fine tune report deliverables; collaborate with Client Subject Matter Experts (SME)’s to develop and implement the solution and assist with deployment activities
• Prepare training manuals and support to business users to promote understanding of Business Intelligence 4.2 environment and usage of Business Intelligence 4.2 Web Intelligence reports, and BI Launch pad tools and features
• Conduct performance tuning for Universes and Reports
• Assist the team with troubleshooting problems and developing recommendations/solutions
• Update/Maintain Business Objects Universes
• Update/Maintain Business Objects Universe design specification documentation
• Assist business analysts and testers during system testing as necessary

Qualifications:
Bachelor’s with 8+ years (or commensurate experience) preferred majors and minors include Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Information Management and Technology

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of experience designing complex BI 4.2 Universes
• 8+ years of experience creating advanced complex reports in BI 4.2-4.3
• Proven experience with Business Objects Universe Design Tool (UDT)
• Proven experience with Business Objects Information Design Tool (IDT)
• Proven experience converting Universes from UDT to IDT
• Tableau experience
• Ability to apply strong technical knowledge of features and functions of Business intelligence tools
• Strong SQL data analysis skills
• Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle
• Possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work hybrid schedule as outlined above

• Participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and other Agile activities
• Estimate Level of Effort (LOE) for backlog items
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple tasks and adhere to project schedules
• Perform data analysis and data profiling against source systems and data warehouse
• Define and prepare solutions for O&M changes to existing reports and universes and deployment of new reports and universes
• Extensively use back end functions, procedures, tables, views required by the business objects universes, used BO functionality like Queries, Slice and Dice, Drill down, @Function, Variables, Breaks, Sorting, alerter, applying of filters, Formulae etc.
• Test solutions to validate whether requirements have been met; develop unit test plans, unit test scripts, and test conditions based on the business and system requirements
• Coordinate and demo prototype reviews and validate that solutions meet requirements and review/fine tune report deliverables; collaborate with Client Subject Matter Experts (SME)’s to develop and implement the solution and assist with deployment activities
• Prepare training manuals and support to business users to promote understanding of Business Intelligence 4.2 environment and usage of Business Intelligence 4.2 Web Intelligence reports, and BI Launch pad tools and features
• Conduct performance tuning for Universes and Reports
• Assist the team with troubleshooting problems and developing recommendations/solutions
• Update/Maintain Business Objects Universes
• Update/Maintain Business Objects Universe design specification documentation
• Assist business analysts and testers during system testing as necessar