Job Description
Description
What you’ll do:
- This highly visible business-facing role is responsible for building operational and critically important dashboards, scorecards, and other decision-support visualizations - all on a modern cloud platform.
- The role will also support data warehouse design and executive-level discussions regarding new opportunities and viable capabilities of the business intelligence and visualization platform.
Responsibilities
Who you are:
- Hands-on developer and teammate with passion for working on a variety of data projects.
- Interacts directly and maintains flexibility with business to meet desired outcomes.
- Leads effort to build strong functional requirements to deliver premier data visualizations.
- Builds wireframes for insightful discussions, authors documentation, and supports end-user training around usage and full functionality.
- Participates and chips in to discussions regarding the advantages and disadvantages of data warehouse design approaches.
- Maintains metadata catalog for reporting, critical metrics, and available working visualizations.
- Supports code review process, provides advice and gives constructive feedback to fellow business intelligence and visualization developers.
- Crafts open dialogues and discourses with data team leads to remove much of the opacity in directional decision making.
- Supports the drive for innovation through identifying emerging trends and their alignment to business outcomes.
- Ensures that technical requirements and standard methodologies are met and deployed within the context of the data teams standards.
- Builds trust in all interactions and always strives to improve the team around you.
- Passion for leaving the code base better than it was found.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, Business, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Deep understanding of business intelligence and visualization tools, e.g. Looker.
- Experienced with dimensional modeling methodologies and approaches to support complex visualizations.
- Deep understanding of ANSI SQL.
- Experience working with cloud data platforms, e.g. GCP Big Query.
- Understanding of working with data integration tools, e.g. dbt.
- Ability to assess business needs and translate them into appropriate data designs.
- Experience researching performance bottlenecks, diagnosing problems, and articulating viable solutions to implement.
- General understanding of distributed version control systems, e.g. Git.
- Desire to work in a constantly evolving environment and maintain the ability to shift in new directions as business needs are altered.
- Ability to lead, handle, coach, mentor, and empower team members on a global scale.
Benefits
- Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote!
- Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela
- Quarterly work from home stipends
- Flexible working hours
- Equity (as a part of compensation package)
- Healthcare, 401k / pension (US only)
- Andela Affinity Groups
- Growth & development paths
- Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave
- And more to come! We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela.