As a business intelligence (BI) developer, you bring crucial analytics to business solutions and organizations. Accurate business intelligence often equals competitive advantage in the market, and you are the data expert. Expertise in relational and multidimensional database schemas is a must. You solve real-world business problems by designing and building OLAP (online analytical processing) cubes, applying data mining algorithms, writing queries, and designing reports. Responsibilities range from aggregating data from multiple sources in an efficient data warehouse to designing enterprise-level solutions for very large multidimensional databases.
Business systems analyst
Application systems analyst
Database architect
Solutions architect
Design and plan BI solutions
Debug, monitor, and troubleshoot BI solutions
Write relational and multidimensional database queries
Create and deploy reports
Configure, deploy, and maintain database servers
Two years or more
50 percent developing and testing solutions
25 percent administration and management
25 percent responding to user requests
