Business Intelligence Architect

Be the expert technical owner for Enterprise BI systems (BO XI, Web Intelligence, Crystal Enterprise, Netweaver BI as well as server side add-ons such as OLAP-Voyager, Polestar).

Architect mission critical, enterprise-wide BI Applications for a high level of availability, fault tolerance and acceptable performance for all regions and users world-wide.

Architect an authentication and security model for the global organization.

Ongoing responsibility to ensure BI knowledge is harvested and shared within BI/PMO knowledge repositories.

Defines and implements enterprise BI standards and best practices and identifies roadmap and strategy for corporate BI reporting

Ensure that BI architecture standards and conventions are well understood and applied by business, support groups and project teams as well as ensure the architecture choices are aligned with the Enterprise Architecture standards and directions.

Work with the IT Operations teams to architect Production, QA, Test and Development systems, determine hardware requirements, and provide input into hardware budgeting process and drive implementations. Ensure that systems are monitored and audited for performance and usage.

Work closely with vendor Customer Support organization to escalate issues, raise escalations appropriately and follow resolution through to an installed hot fix.

Interface with various project team members including Business Analysts, DW Architect, ETL Developers, DBA, BI Administrators

Be a champion of BI technologies

Must have good business knowledge and planning skills.

7 + years experience in a highly technical role and preferably in an Architect role in recent past

7+ years experience with Business Intelligence applications, Enterprise reporting, OLAP & Dashboard technology

5 to 7 years of direct hands on experience with Business Objects and Crystal Enterprise and a deep technical knowledge of the XI product suite and SAP BI technologies.

2 to 3 years of experience in Xcelsius and strong understanding of integration of Xcelsius with other technologies such as Flex, Adobe's AIR platform

5 to 7 years of experience implementing Data Warehouse solution with strong understanding of Data Warehouse methodology, dimensional modeling including Ralph Kimball's methodology

Solid understanding of networking and server hardware.

Extensive knowledge of Oracle database with excellent query performance tuning skills

Passion for technology.

Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, define, and develop complex BI architecture solutions for large enterprise.

Experience assessing and determining governance, stewardship, and frameworks for managing BI architecture across the organization.

Excellent organizational skills and ability to create and follow processes.

Project Management.

Strong communication (verbal and written) skills and end-user interaction skills required which includes the ability to document and develop in-house processes and manage daily multiple projects.

Independence; Handles Pressure; Flexibility; Dependability; Coordination.

Self motivated, energetic, highly proactive and one who would strive to bring value to organization.

Bachelor's Technical degree

BOCP Certification a plus

MCSE Certification a plus