GP Strategies Corporation

GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world's leading talent transformation providers. By delivering award-winning learning and development solutions, we help organizations transform through their people and achieve meaningful change. GP Strategies has delivered our innovative consulting, learning services, and talent technology solutions to over 6,000 organizations globally.

From our global experience working across thousands of projects and initiatives over the past 55 years, we've learned that relationships, business, work, innovation, strategy, and transformation are all about people. And, to put it simply, GP Strategies is about our people - an extensive global network of learning experts. Additional information can be found at www.gpstrategies.com.

Summary

The role of Senior BI Engineer with the GP IT Services business unit is focused on producing effective and cost-efficient BI solutions that meet some of the most challenging business needs at all levels of the company. Success in this position will come from a confidence (based on prior project experience) in implementing modern analytics cloud technologies, using well-established architectures and design patterns in a team setting. The ability to share and mentor junior staff is also expected to foster even greater team productivity.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Analyzes and designs BI solutions
• Develops BI solutions in a team environment
• Performs technology, research, evaluation and selection
• Advises IT management on technical strategies, design patterns and practices relevant to BI software development
• Aligns BI solution designs to corporate and IT strategy through analysis and technical review processes
• Estimates project and solution costs through scoping exercises
• Advocate for corporate and IT BI objectives and the technology that implements them
• Mentors developers and other software development staff on the use of BI technology to solve business problems.

Required skills

Design

• Data prep patterns and practices

o ETL and LET design patterns

o Reliable batch/stream data processing

• Modern data modeling patterns and practices

o Dimensional data store schemas (star/snowflake)

o Standard data warehousing processes, patterns and practices

o Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) analysis and development strategies

o Data Lake designs

• Data visualization patterns and practices
• Master Data Management (MDM): processes, patterns and practices for implementing a Master Data Management strategy in the context of a BI strategy.
• Data Quality Management: processes, patterns and practices for implementing a Data Quality Management strategy in the context of a BI strategy.

Technology

Listed examples are preferred, but not required

• RDBMS
• Tabular or columnar databases
• ETL orchestration platforms (e.g., Azure Data Factory)
• Data prep (e.g., Azure Data Bricks/Hadoop/Apache Spark)
• Serverless compute platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse, Azure SQL Warehouse)
• Analytical languages (e.g., R, Python, DAX)
• SQL (e.g., TSQL, PL-SLQ)
• Visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
• Data Lakes (e.g., Azure Data Lake)

Related Experience

All of the following experience requirements involve active development of systems and solutions deployed to production environments.

Technical

• 7+ years in BI Architecture, Data Warehousing, and Data Modeling
• 5+ years of data- and BI-specific business analysis
• 5+ years devoted to the Microsoft BI Stack (SSIS, SSAS, etc.)
• 3+ years creating solutions in the Azure space using Lakehouse design patterns
• 2+ years designing and implementing End to End Solutions with distributed data processing pipelines using Spark, Hive, Python, and other tools and languages prevalent in the Hadoop ecosystem. (HDFS/YARN/MapReduce/Hive)
• 2+ years using various pyspark/scala for data engineering.
• 2+ years of experience creating end to end big data streaming solutions in the cloud

Business/Domain

Experience in at least some of the following business data domains are expected given the listed technical experience above.

• Finance & Accounting

o GL, AR

• Human Resources

o Payroll, Absence, Benefits

• Project Management

o Costs, revenue, planned vs. actual etc.

• Procure-to-Pay

o Invoice aging

• Sales

o Opportunity management

Other skills and experience

• Excellent English oral and written communication skills
• Business analysis and requirements gathering techniques and practices
• Facility in managing stakeholder/SME relationships and building business partnerships
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical people, including those at the highest levels of the organization
• Uses Agile software methodologies for work execution and team collaboration

With more than 4000 employees in over 30 countries, diversity at GP Strategies is second nature! Beyond our locations, our culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from, because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how great ideas are born, which enable us to work smarter.

GP Strategies is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.

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