Business Intelligence Specialist

Must possess experience with Fabric. This is a Power BI Administration role

We are seeking a strong Power BI Admin with Fabric experience for our client in the St. Louis, MO area.

St. Louis, MO Candidates ONLY, No Exceptions.

US Citizens or Green Card Holders ONLY!!

SENIOR BI ENGINEER – PLATFORM ADMIN

• Provides proactive technical administration, planning, coordination, documentation, and management reporting for business intelligence platforms throughout the organization.

• Coordinates business intelligence platform project and support activities. Contributes to report design and development to help ensure optimal performance.

• Perform system monitoring and tuning, report object backup and restore, proactive system maintenance, report SQL tuning, and the planning and installation of platform upgrades and patches.

• Manages BI platform security, including development and monitoring of policies and procedures. Administers user rights and license management.

Key responsibilities include:

• Performs administration activities related to hundreds of reporting and visualization capabilities.

• Ensures high availability, reliability, consistently high throughput and system performance, and high levels of customer service and trust.

• Performs system tuning and performance monitoring and troubleshoots and resolves performance issues with a high level of urgency.

• Maintain, and support production server and other non-production environments for upgrades, bug fixes, and patching.

• Coordinate & Support application releases and configuration management.

• Provide escalated technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status.

• Ensures security and the compliance of regulations by protecting the confidentiality of information within the environment by preventing unauthorized access to information.

• Assists with capital procurement by providing expert consultation on system sizing and license growth, software installations and upgrades.

• Proactively researches, consults, and recommends technology enhancements, always seeking continuous improvement.

• Partners with database administrators, developers, management, system users and software/hardware vendors.

• Builds an understanding of existing systems, databases, and procedures and follows corporate policies when executing projects

• Applies best practices and established procedures to analyze data and identify trends

• Assists in ongoing maintenance and support of reporting and analytics applications

• Engages with business stakeholders to develop an understanding of their operations and define how analytics can solve key business problems

• Demonstrates a bias for action by hitting deadlines, communicating with project stakeholders, and producing polished outputs

• Partners effectively with other departments to fully define analytics requirements for solving business problems, sometimes going beyond the initial ask of business colleagues

• Mentors less experienced co-workers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science or business

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Master’s and/or Ph.D. in a technical discipline e.g., engineering, mathematics, statistics, finance/economics or business management) may replace a maximum of 2 years of experience.

• Strong technical expertise in Power BI

• Power BI admin experience.

• Relational databases and writing SQL queries