BI Architect & Platform Administrator

BI Architect & Platform Administrator

12 Sep 2024
California, Usca 00000 Usca USA

BI Architect & Platform Administrator

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Job Description

As part of the Global Business Insights team, this position will contribute to the development and delivery of useful and timely information to decision-makers and business leaders in an easy-to-understand, efficient, and accessible manner.

This role will allow Skechers to build in-house expertise and advanced capabilities using Business Intelligence and Analytical Platforms, Environments, and Tools (MicroStrategy, Tableau, others as needed).

The BI Platform Administrator and Architect will be responsible for design and implementation of BI and analyticalplatform architecture, including semantic layer, performance optimization methodology, self-service environment and overall BI solution definition. This role will ensure adherence to standards and best practices for BI deployments, including performance optimization, design and platform development.

The role will provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to promote the BI and analytical best practices and governance across the company. It will also support critical relevant business and analytical processes and will make recommendations for improvements and analytical strategy.

Essential Job Results

  • Responsible for enterprise data sets in the context of BI and Analytical platforms and environments, including Enterprise Data Model, Dimensional Model, Project Schemas, Enterprise KPIs, Data Dictionary, Cubes, Data marts, and Managed Objects.
  • Manages BI and analytical environments, applications and tools, including performance, maintenance, upgrades, licensing, user provisioning, compliance, governance and certification of data and analytical assets.
  • Defines and implements BI semantic layer and BI platform architecture in alignment with business goals and objectives.
  • Leads and evangelizes analytical and visual data discovery, self-service, reuse and optimization across company-wide analytical community.
  • Manages Enterprise Intelligence Platform environments, including Project Configuration, User Provisioning, Analytics Security, Distribution Services, Cube Configuration, Cache Management, Project Objects Migration, Platform Environment Monitoring and Alerting Tools. The Enterprise Intelligence Platform Environment hosts the data, application, security, and related services necessary to deploy analytics and mobility applications throughout the Enterprise.
  • Provides Ongoing maintenance, support and operations of the Enterprise Intelligence Platform Environments and Tools.
  • Ensures security, compliance and governance as part of BI platform management
  • Provides recommendations for continuous improvement and best practices in architecture and user adoption of BI and analytical solutions and products.
  • Provides technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to team members and to the company-wide analytical community.
  • Collaborates closely with data engineering, IT, and business teams to design and implement actionable, useful and timely BI solutions to support the company goals.
  • Champions data-driven culture and ensures data quality, integrity and usability.

Additional Responsibilities

  • Learn new technology and tools as needed to perform job duties
  • Develop and maintain internal knowledge repository
  • Establish expertise in key data domains, data sources, and analytical environments
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in BI platforms and BI architecture
  • Continuously strive for improvement, consistent quality and growth
  • Demonstrate personal commitment to the team and the team’s goals
  • Work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
  • Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

  • TBD, depending on experience and organizational need

Job Requirements

  • Business-focused and service-oriented mindset with can-do attitude
  • Highly analytical and intellectually curious
  • Able to analyze data sets and recommend BI solution design
  • Skilled in presenting information in accessible and meaningful manner
  • Able to analyze business needs and document requirements
  • Original thinker, resourceful and creative
  • Organized and detail-oriented
  • Ability to effectively partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Excellent communicator with solid teamwork skills and agile mindset
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work independently

Education and Experience

  • Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, analytics, finance or related fields
  • 5+ hands-on professional experience in BI platform architecture and administration
  • Extensive hands-on experience with MicroStrategy platform management and architecture, object development, advanced visualization techniques
  • Experience with other BI platforms, including Tableau, Google Analytics, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and other digital marketing platforms, BI and analytical tools
  • Deep understanding of advanced analytics and data science methodologies and platforms, as well as integration of such platforms with MicroStrategy and Tableau
  • Database design and hands-on semantic layer development experience
  • Experience performing data and business analysis
  • Experience with Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and other MS Office tools, as well as Jira, Confluence and other project management and collaboration tools
  • Hands-on experience with cloud BI implementation and system integration
  • Strong SQL skills, experience with ETL tools such as Talend, Pentaho, Informatica
  • Familiarity with R or Python
  • Experience with agile, iterative development methodology

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for thejobposition, to perform the essential functions.

Additional Information

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, stoop, and kneel. The employee is occasionally required to sit for long period of times.

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Job Details

  • ID
    JC4764480
  • State
  • City
  • Job type
    Full-time
  • Salary
    N/A
  • Hiring Company
    Skechers
  • Date
    2020-09-09
  • Deadline
    2020-11-08
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