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Business Intelligence Analyst
Genworth Financial
Richmond, VA, United States
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The heart of Genworth is its data, and with your help and guidance, the business can identify the appropriate tool and technology to consume and analyze data at the speed of business. This role will offer you an opportunity to work with a variety of business partners on data solutions that fit their need. You will have the opportunity to learn what’s important to our business and how it operates. This role must be flexible and easily adapt to multiple different work assignments/projects based on pressing business needs.
RESPONSIBILITIES
This role will have responsibilities that vary on a daily basis. With a strong understanding of both key business context and IT architecture this role will be critical in bridging the gap between the business user and their data. Responsibilities will vary from very technical to very high level design all while staying on the same page as the business partner.
• Interact with the Business Systems Analysts, users, and business leads to understand business needs.
• Provide technical guidance to Business Analysts, and end users, to best address business functional requirements.
• Understand the source data components and how they integrate with each other, including relational and dimensional data.
• Review and approve the technical specifications provided by the Business Systems Analysts.
• Design and implement BI architectures based on business, data, and functional requirement.
• Deliver high-level BI design documents to program and development team for review.
• Deployment and integration testing of developed components in multiple testing environments.
• Support QA (resolve issues and release fixes) UAT and production support when required.
• Develop, maintain, document and manage BI Solutions using Business Objects, SAS and Spotfire
• Develop, maintain, document, and manage custom data delivery systems for large scale business intelligence initiatives.
• Partner directly with other BI developers, data architects, clients, technical data warehouse team members, and database administrators to design and develop high performing BI solutions and maintain consistent development functions.
• Ensure solution designs address performance requirements, reusability, availability, integrity, security challenges, and business functional requirements.
• Provide work estimates and proactively communicate to the relevant parties any changes in scheduling. Apply good time management technique.
• Prepare Business Objects system landscape to provide end-to-end BI architecture solution for BO projects.
• Design universes to provide semantic layer between Business Intelligence reporting tools and various data marts.
• Select the appropriate analytics tool (Spotfire, SAS, Business Objects, etc) at the onset of a reporting project. Articulate and document the rationale in the decision making.
• Evaluate and review deliverables from peers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Extensive understanding/experience of database design, relationships, and modeling
• 5+ years of experience working with clients to define and develop BI applications that enhance business decision making capabilities
• 5+ years experience working with data warehouse systems and a solid understanding of the data warehouse life cycle
• Demonstrated experience with multi-dimensional data structures
• A proven ability to develop a clear understanding of client needs and the ability to incorporate them into a BI solution
• Familiarity with traditional Oracle development tools
• Experience with development of basic SQL procedures to support data aggregation
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience
• Excellent communication and cross-team coordination skills. Solid oral, written, and presentation as well as strong interpersonal skills are required
• A team player with the ability to mentor and provide guidance to junior team members
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Solid understanding of SAS Business Intelligence (BI) tools including; SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Cube Studio and SAS Information Map Studio
• Solid understanding of SAP Business Objects
• Working knowledge of TIBCO Spotfire
• Familiarity with Greenplum database environment
**Your internal title will be IT Architecture Design Manager