Business Intelligence Analyst

Business Intelligence Analyst

Contract Length: 1 year

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Work Schedule arrangement: Hybrid

Raise is currently hiring a Business Intelligence Abalyst on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our client, a partnership of 12 municipalities - one Electoral Area and one treaty First Nation. That collaboratively plans for and delivers regional-scale services with its core services being drinking water, wastewater treatment and solid waste management.

Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.

The Business Intelligence Analyst will work in collaboration with our Business Strategy and Improvement Team and will focus on:

• Translating business requirements into technical specifications

• Data profiling

• Source data analysis with SQL or applicable tools

• Business Analysis

• Designing and developing the data analytics (data warehouse, data lake ODS, data modelling, Power BI security, Power BI workspace) reusable framework

• Designing data models based on technical specifications

• Exploring advanced Power BI features for analytics, including customized solutions such as Dataflows and Datamarts

• Designing and building data pipelines and ETL packages including: o M Query

o Dax Language

o Power Query

o Dashboards and reports with Power BI Desktop

o Troubleshoot day-to-day data warehouse issues

The position requires the following technical qualifications:

• Design, build, and deploy BI solutions (e.g., reporting tools, dashboards)

• Maintain and improve existing BI systems

• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle).

• Experience with on-premise data warehouse reusable framework design and implementation

• Experience with data modelling, analysis, and visualization

• Work with relational and non-relational databases to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data

• Experience with building data pipelines and ETL processes

• Extensive development experience with technologies including SQL Server, REST APIs, OLAP cubes, and BI analytics tools.

• Extensive analytic development experience with Power BI and preferably Microsoft Power Platform.

• Advanced Power BI Service configuration experience, including Power BI Dataflows and Datamarts.

• Experience in Power BI report development, reports automation with data source refresh configurations

• Experience with analyzing data source systems to identify data transformation needs

• Thorough knowledge of software development methods, practices and procedures

• Ability to prepare technical design and write technical specifications

• Experience using Azure DevOps to manage projects is preferred

• Experience with programming languages such as Python or R is a plus

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric for data integration, data warehousing, analytics, semantic modeling, and enterprise reporting solutions is considered a strong asset

In addition, this position requires the ability to:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of internal contacts

• Provide advice and assistance on matters related to the work

• Ability to document, analyze, and assess a variety of information; identify priorities and resources; and propose alternative business processes.

• Demonstrated experience reviewing, streamlining and standardizing technical and operational documentation.

• Ability to develop practical standards that promote consistency while remaining easy for teams to maintain.

• Ability to assist in the development of standards and perform other administrative tasks related to assigned work

• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing and to present proposals in non-technical language

• Perform assigned duties with minimal supervision, although direction will be given.

• Maintain confidentiality