Job Description
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.
Skills
- Designing and planning BI solutions
- Debugging, monitoring, and troubleshooting BI solutions
- Writing relational and multidimensional database queries
- Creating and deploying reports
- Configuring, deploying, and maintaining database servers
Typical required experience
Two years or more
Responsibility scope
50 percent developing and testing solutions, 25 percent administration and management, 25 percent responding to user requests
Possible role names
- Business systems analyst
- Application systems analyst
- Database architect
- Solutions architect
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