BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECT

Job Title : BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECT

Location : 2 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, New Jersey

Job Type : Contract

Duration : 2+ Years

Work schedule : Normal business hours Monday-Friday 8-5

Pay Rate : $80 to $90 per hour

DESCRIPTION OF WORK (SCOPE OF WORK)

ERAD currently hosts Cognos and Microsoft Power Platform technologies to provide data, reporting and application development to various departments in an Agency. It is anticipated that this platform will be exploited to a much greater extent in the near future to address all aspects of corporate reporting needs and application development which enables the organization to make decisions that achieve better outcomes, flexible deployment options, and to enable to easily scale analytics to meet changing business needs.

The successful candidate may work independently as well as with both consultant and staff resources of different units and departments throughout the Agency under the direction of project manager to deliver work projects including but not limited to:

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• New development: Working with PA technical manager, responsible for understanding and documenting business requirements, providing project plans for new implementation, develop, test and deploy solutions to prod environment following PA processes for tracking user requirements, project development status and testing and deploying solutions following change/release management process.
• Systems Testing and Deployment – Responsible for unit and system integration testing, coordinating with business users for user acceptance testing and getting sign off from business users to implement solutions in the production for any new enhancements or development following PA’s change/release management process.
• Systems Support – Provide maintenance, enhancements and support of platform making sure the stability of applications is maintained by resolving any data issues, user help tickets in timely manner and provide on-call availability for off-hour problem resolution.
• Environment Support - Maintenance of Non-prod and Prod Cognos environments making sure the stability of these environments is always maintained by applying any required patching and upgrades as required.
• System administration - Provide system administration for installation and configurations of different components of Cognos platform, upgrades and responsible to maintain and establish user accounts, security profiles, controlling access to applications and reports following the process.
• Troubleshooting and Problem Management and Resolution - Logging, documenting, tracking and resolving system problems while ensuring ongoing data integrity with any and all interfaces and/or systems.
• Disaster Recovery Support – Defining, in conjunction with the Port Authority, the scope of periodic disaster recovery tests. Coordinating with other Port Authority staff and third parties to ensure all required tasks are covered for these tests.
• Documentation and Training - Responsible for providing all documentation needed for the continued operation and management of the system and for any new implementations that is accurate and available and in compliance with PA Standards. Provide training to end users on any new functionality of the application or platform by providing user guides.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 10 years of experience working with in Data warehousing, Data Analysis, Source to Target Mapping, Multi-dimensional modeling and Relational modeling, Star schema, Snowflake schema, Fact and dimension tables and ETL Processes
• 10 + years’ experience in Microsoft SQL Server and relational SQL databases that include data modeling, development, and management.
• Experience in designing database tables and structures, creating views functions and stored procedures as required.
• 5+ years of experience with Azure Analysis services in AAS Data Model Development, AAS Data model Deployment in Azure, Querying data from AAS to build Reports.
• Experience in developing, optimizing, and administering Tabular Models in 'Azure Analysis services'.
• Experience in design and Create AAS/OLAP/ Tabular cubes and automate processes for analytical needs. Expertise in developing OLAP cubes and developing complex calculations, Aggregations, implementing a dynamic security model using DAX functions in - Azure Analysis services.
• Experience in writing optimized SQL queries for integration with other applications, maintaining data quality and overseeing database security, Partitions, and Index. Extensively used performance monitor/SQL profiler/DMVs to solve deadlocks, to monitor long-running queries and trouble-shoot cubes SQL and T-SQL.
• Experience or Knowledge of reporting tools like Power BI, Cognos or tableau preferred.
• Experience in applying data visualization best practices and tell stories through data visuals and reports to inform the who, what, when, where, and how to be able to understand the key factors driving positive outcomes.
• Excellent communications, presentation skills with ability to interact at all levels of the organization on a regular basis.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related field
• Any certification in related technologies is preferred.