Senior BI Solution Architect

Job Description

CDM Smith has an exciting opportunity for a talented Senior BI Solution Architect on our Digital Capital team who will leverage their passion for analysis, business intelligence, and data to enable decision-making within our organization and drive operational excellence. This role will work closely with our BI, analytics and enterprise data teams to maintain, develop and modernize our analytics platforms. We're looking for a hands-on person who is self-driven and has experience in creating end-to-end BI solutions, including data-rich dashboards, creation of complex models and strong data knowledge.

• Elaborates an initial conceptual vision of application landscape for analytics and engineer it into a concrete architecture; present on solution architecture and create prototypes and proof of concepts.

• Analyzes and helps drive business requirements and translates them into functional user stories; Architects and designs end to end solutions and owns creation of technical requirements, process flows, data mappings, data model additions and decisions related to the development cycle of analytical solutions and applications.

• Coordinates and leads design approvals, code reviews, architecture reviews and security reviews.

• Evaluates application development practices, making recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies while utilizing standard practices, policies, and procedures.

• Responsible for architecting analytics solutions in a scalable manner, utilizing agreed upon technologies, following data governance and security protocol and providing technical leadership and issue resolution across sprints and work streams to downstream developers/testers.

• Tests to ensure applications conform to development standards and meets the requirements of the end user. Performs ongoing architecture quality and code reviews for specific projects/programs.

• Conducts requirement reviews/hand-offs, demos and trainings, UAT testing efforts and acts as primary point of contact to the business sponsor or product owner.

• Partners with Enterprise Architects and source system SMEs on the design and implementation data layers.

• Drives and documents frameworks, patterns, standards, templates for effective use of our analytics and BI platforms.

• Collaborates and consults with various teams by providing technical and domain guidance.

• Performs other duties as required.

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Employment Type

Regular

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 6 years of related experience.

Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with self-service BI tools, citizen developers or being part of a Center of Excellence.

• Experience with working in an Agile environment; Strong project management skills.

• Ability to learn the industry and business nuances quickly.

• Experience in other scripting languages such as Python, R, SAS and other BI tools.