COMSYS

www.comsys.com

Data Warehouse Engineer - BI
Skill Database Business Intelligence, Microstrategy
Location Mountain View, CA
Total Experience Not Mentioned
Max Salary Not Mentioned
Employment Type Contract Jobs (Temp/Consulting)
Job Duration 3 months to hire
Domain Any
Description
ello, our e-commerce client in South Bay is looking for an experienced Data Warehouse Engineer. This is a contract to hire position - or it can be a direct hire.
You will be building a high-performance Business Intelligence (BI) architecture and a reporting platform that will influence the organization to be data-driven.
You will have a deep understanding of technical and functional designs for Database, Data Warehousing, Reporting, and Data Mining areas. You will play a key role in the data/web analytics platform development/support, projects, and systems design and development. This team is accountable for ensuring that the overall functional and technical design of work processes and applications meet business and functional requirements. In addition, the work must be sustainable and conform to operational infrastructure.

Here are the Job Responsibilities:

* Design and build the MicroStrategy Metadata Layer for the BI solution
* Develop and maintain BI reports, dashboards and end-user applications
* Design, develop and implement BI systems enabling non-technical users to leverage data for strategic decision-making.
* Develop extensible components on top of BI tools in line with business priorities, e.g. Flash/Flex-based components in Report Services, portal integration, and standard object creation (templates, filters, prompts, etc.).
* Be involved in full lifecycle development and implementation enterprise data warehouse, BI reporting and analytical services.
* Develop ad hoc interfaces enabling self-service capability
* Resolve user-identified functional and technical issues relating to Data Mart and reporting services.
* Utilize various reporting tools to deliver insights to targeted audiences
* Stay up to speed on the latest technologies and facilitate plans to incorporate new features in overall product usage.
* Establish efficient design and programming patterns for engineers as well as for non-technical peoples.

Skills
* 5 years of experience in MicroStrategy Suite, administration, report development and implementation.
* 5 years of intensive experience in the analysis, design implementation and support of complex BI solutions
* Experience in designing data models, metadata, cubes and drill through reports
* Proficiency with dashboards, reporting data models, security/access controls, integration, scalability/tuning, quality assurance and configuration management
* 3+ years of experience with very large (multi-terabyte) databases preferred
* Solid understanding of systems engineering (to ensure high performance of BI architecture using CPU, memory, storage, caching, etc.)
* Strong grounding in database fundamentals and experience working with data warehouses using Oracle, Teradata and other MPP databases
* SQL programming skills with the ability to analyze, debug and tune queries
* Expert understanding of database performance characteristics, high volume data handling processes and techniques
* Ability to write and support scripting languages (UNIX Shell Scripts, Perl, Python)
* Ability to work in a team environment, interacting with multiple groups on a daily basis (very strong communication skills).

Please send me your resume. Thank you very much, and good luck with your job search.

Brenda
COMSYS San Francisco
415-399-3629

COMSYS IT Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: CITP) is a leading information technology services company with 44 offices across the U.S. and offices in Canada and the U.K. Leveraging more than 30 years of experience, COMSYS service offerings include contingent staff aug-mentation, permanent recruiting and placement, vendor management and project solutions, including network design and management, customized software development and maintenance, software globalization/localization translation services and implementation and upgrade services for SAS, business intelligence and various ERP packages.

COMSYS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.