Business Intelligence Analyst-Irving, TX

Business Intelligence Analyst

Location: Irving, TX

Position Type: Contract

Rate: DOE $/hr. on w2 only

No Visa sponsorship available for this Job (US Citizen, Green Card,GC-EAD only)

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Assist business staff in the development of business requirements documents, including owning authorship of business requirements when called for.
• Help identify and assess potential data sources, and analyze existing enterprise data warehouse structures to determine relevance to marketing reporting.
• Participate in generating high-level solution concepts in consultation with development and quality assurance teams.
• Write functional requirements documents, participate in document reviews with business users and development teams.
• Create dashboard design mockups, using creative methods for visualizing results.
• Document test strategies for report and dashboard outputs, and review test results.
• Maintain an understanding of how the data in the enterprise data warehouse relates to important marketing business processes, events and measurements.
• Work cooperatively with analysts and developers to ensure that business requirements guide the development life cycle.

This position requires:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field or equivalent, relevant experience.
• At least 8 years of working experience in a variety of technical roles within information technology.
• 5 or more years of experience in business analysis or data analysis roles in a BI environment.
• Experience using BI tools; experience with Cognos and Qlikview highly desirable.
• Development experience with at least one business intelligence tool such as Qlikview, Tableau, Cognos, or Microstrategy highly desired.
• Experience authoring technical documents such as business requirements, functional requirements, business rules, KPI definitions, database design representations, data and systems flow diagrams.
• Knowledge of data warehouse architectures and processes.
• Understanding of the features and capabilities of one more DBMS's commonly used in data warehousing such as Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server.
• Expertise developing or applying relational and dimensional data models.
• Thorough knowledge of MS-Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interpret, analyze and solve business problems with information technology solutions.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to advocate for the needs of business partners.
• Good public speaking and presentation skills.
• Interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to pay attention to details and be organized.
• Ability to project professionalism over the phone and in person.
• Commitment to "internal client" and customer service principles.
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects.
• Spelling, grammar, proofreading and editing skills.
• Creative writing ability.
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multi-task, and work under shifting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Required Skills: Business Intelligence, Cognos, Data Modeling, MS Office, QlikView

Preferred Skills: Tableau; MicroStrategy; Oracle; Teradata; SQL Server