Business Solutions Analyst - Seattle, WA - Georgia IT Inc.
Seattle, WA
About the Job
Job Title: Business Solutions Analyst
Location: Seattle, WA
Position Type: Contract
US Citizen/ GC and GC EAD
Job Description
This nationwide industry leader has an immediate 6+ month contract opportunity in New York City for a Senior Business Solutions Analyst with Business Intelligence experience. This project will have major impacts on the Business Intelligence and Marketing Business Intelligence (MBI) environments. Will be responsible for gathering and refining business requirements associated with the project. He/she must have experience analyzing business processes and corresponding information needs. Beginning with a high level business requirements document, the analyst will interview users in order to document the project scope for the BI teams, establish specific reporting needs, define key performance indicators and their attributes, and establish user acceptance criteria. He/she will also develop functional requirements documents that cover interfaces, reporting and marketing database feeds.
Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Location: Seattle, WA
Position Type: Contract
US Citizen/ GC and GC EAD
Job Description
This nationwide industry leader has an immediate 6+ month contract opportunity in New York City for a Senior Business Solutions Analyst with Business Intelligence experience. This project will have major impacts on the Business Intelligence and Marketing Business Intelligence (MBI) environments. Will be responsible for gathering and refining business requirements associated with the project. He/she must have experience analyzing business processes and corresponding information needs. Beginning with a high level business requirements document, the analyst will interview users in order to document the project scope for the BI teams, establish specific reporting needs, define key performance indicators and their attributes, and establish user acceptance criteria. He/she will also develop functional requirements documents that cover interfaces, reporting and marketing database feeds.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in generating high level solution concepts in consultation with BI Solutions Architects and Development teams.
- Help identify, assess, and document potential data sources and flows, and analyze existing Enterprise Data Warehouse structures to determine relevance to business needs.
- Write Functional Requirements Documents, participate in document reviews with business users and Development teams.
- Document user acceptance test plans.
- Design reports for business users.
- Work cooperatively with BI Solutions Architects and developers during the development life cycle to ensure that business requirements guide the development life cycle.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 10 years' experience as a business analyst, with a majority of that experience in Business Intelligence environments.
- Very strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with a subscription based business highly desirable.
- Proven record of participating in the delivery of new and enhanced to business intelligence capabilities.
- Knowledge of data warehouse architectures and processes.
- Experience authoring technical documents such as business requirements, functional requirements, logical database design representations, data and system flow diagrams.
- Understanding of the features and capabilities of one more DBMS's commonly used in data warehousing such as Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server.
- Expertise developing and applying relational and dimensional data models.
- Understanding of ETL architectures and experience deploying ETL solutions in a data warehousing environment.
- Ability to conceptualize and communicate reporting strategies that address a wide range of information needs
- Development experience with at least one business intelligence tool such as Microstrategy, Cognos, or Business Objects.
- Experience with marketing campaign management tools such from Unica, Aprimo, or SAS highly desirable.
Required Skills:
- Business Analyst, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, ETL
Preferred Skills:
- Oracle; Teradata; SQL Server; Informatica; MicroStrategy; Cognos; Business Objects; Marketing; SAS
Source : Georgia IT Inc.