Senior BI Engineer- Platform Admin

Codetech•Saint Louis, MO

About The Position

Provides proactive technical administration, planning, coordination, documentation, and management reporting for business intelligence platforms throughout the organization. Coordinates BI platform project and support activities and contributes to report design and development to help ensure optimal performance. The role performs system monitoring and tuning, report-object backup and restore, proactive system maintenance, report SQL tuning, and planning and installation of platform upgrades and patches. It manages BI platform security, including developing and monitoring policies and procedures, and administers user rights and licenses. The position supports reporting and analytics applications and production and non-production environments, coordinates application releases and configuration management, and provides escalated technical support for complex issues. It works with business stakeholders and technical partners to understand operations, define analytics requirements, and recommend improvements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required, preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or business.
At least 5 years of relevant experience.
Strong technical expertise in Power BI and OBIEE/OAC.

Nice To Haves

Power BI administration experience is preferred.
A master's degree and/or Ph.D. in a technical discipline such as engineering, mathematics, statistics, finance/economics, or business management may replace a maximum of 2 years of experience.

Responsibilities

Administer hundreds of reporting and visualization capabilities.
Ensure high availability, reliability, throughput, system performance, customer service, and trust.
Tune systems, monitor performance, and urgently troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.
Maintain and support production servers and non-production environments for upgrades, bug fixes, and patching.
Coordinate and support application releases and configuration management.
Provide escalated technical support for complex issues, including leading problem-management cases and providing management status.
Protect information confidentiality and ensure security and regulatory compliance by preventing unauthorized access.
Assist with capital procurement by advising on system sizing, license growth, software installations, and upgrades.
Research, consult on, and recommend technology enhancements and continuous improvements.
Partner with database administrators, developers, management, system users, and software and hardware vendors.
Build understanding of existing systems, databases, and procedures, and follow corporate policies when executing projects.
Apply best practices and established procedures to analyze data and identify trends.
Assist with ongoing maintenance and support of reporting and analytics applications.
Engage business stakeholders to understand their operations and define how analytics can solve business problems.
Meet deadlines, communicate with project stakeholders, and produce polished outputs.
Partner with other departments to define analytics requirements, sometimes going beyond the initial request.
Mentor less experienced coworkers.