Tableau/Microstrategy Consultant

Sonsoft Inc; Bethpage (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An IT staffing and consulting firm is looking for a candidate with strong Business Intelligence skills for a full-time position in Bethpage, New York. Candidates should have at least 4 years of experience in reporting and visualization, as well as proficiency in tools such as Tableau and Microstrategy. The role includes creating reports and dashboards, managing vendor relationships, and supporting implementation processes. U.S. citizenship or authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

Qualifications

• 4 years of reporting/visualization experience.
• 2 years’ experience in Microstrategy.
• 2 years’ experience in Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Creates Business Intelligence deliverables, including reports and dashboards.
• Develops OLAP structures to support reporting needs.
• Acts as first line of support for data questions.
• Supports testing and implementation of solutions.
• Manages BI tool vendor relationships.

Skills

SQL

Tableau

Microstrategy

Java knowledge

IOS programming knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent

Tools

Hadoop

NOSQL

Job description

SonSoft is an IT Staffing and consulting firm and duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Georgia. We are growing at a steady pace specializing in the fields of Software Development, Software Consultancy and Information Technology Enabled Services.

Job Description

Preferred Requirements

• At least 4 yrs. reporting /visualization experience
• At least 2 years’ experience in Microstrategy
• At least 2 years’ experience in Tableau

Job Description:

• Creates simple to complex Business Intelligence deliverables, including reports, dashboards, scorecards and presentations.
• Develops and maintains OLAP structures (cubes) to support client reporting needs.
• Acts as the first line of support for data questions and issues and strives to become data subject matter expert for client.
• Creates and executes unit tests and documents results.
• Supports functional, integration or system testing, and UAT.
• Supports implementation of solution into production.
• Creates and maintains design and production system documentation.
• Able to provide group or one-on-one training for BI tool and reports/dashboards
• Interacts directly with client stakeholders who are in business and/or technical roles.
• Follows and champions BI tool best practices.
• Provides effort estimates for report creation or changes performed by this role
• Manages BI tool vendor relationship for assigned clients, including escalation of issues, review of upcoming releases etc.

Technical Skillset

• Proficient in use of SQL
• Proficiency using Tableau, Microstrategy
• Creation/enhancement of reports and dashboards
• Use of calculated variables
• Use of custom formatting
• Report scheduling, including event-based triggers
• Automation of refreshes and delivery
• Proficient in BI tool administration functions including:
• Management of user security/access
• Data mapping/catalog changes (semantic layer)
• Archive and purge activities
• Performance tuning assessment and implementation
• Other tool maintenance, including installation of patches
• Familiar with data warehousing concepts and constructs, including star schema data models to be able to recommend aggregated data structures or calculated data elements in order to optimize report/dashboard performance.
• Java knowledge, IOS programming knowledge desirable
• Familiar with accessing data stored on Big Data platforms (e.g. Hadoop, NOSQL) for data analysis and presentation purposes.
• Familiarity with performance tuning SQL, including use of explains plans, partitions, hints etc.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 4 years of experience within the Information Technologies.

Additional Information

U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Note:

• This is a Full-Time Permanentjob opportunity for you.
• Only US Citizen, Green Card Holder, TN Visa, GC-EAD, H4-EAD & L2-EAD can apply.
• No OPT-EAD & H1B Consultants please.
• Please mention your Visa Statusin your emailor resume.