Technical Data Analyst; Eden Prairie, MN

Duties and responsibilities:

 Play a key role in technical design, including translating functional requirements and conceptual design into cohesive technical design across multiple Hyperion products

·         Analyze peer implementations of similar systems to provide best practices and guidelines for the technical architecture and implementation

·         Support the development of progressively improved proof of concept demonstrations of functionality to be delivered

·         Analyze and resolve systems issues

• Be the technical and data expert: profile and document data sources, develop the data movement strategy, address data issues
  

   

  
  
• Design and build technical deliverables
  

   

  
  
• Implement test and QA strategies and prepare for rollout
  

   

  
  
• Implement access strategy and security, and user access profiles for rollout
  

   

·         Troubleshoot and tune application databases, configuration, and code 

Competencies

•             Very strong technical expertise

•             Experience  on multiple enterprise-level implementations of BI applications, i.e. Hyperion, Cognos, or other reporting applications, including as a technical lead

•             Strong experience designing, developing, and optimizing OLAP cubes, preferably Hyperion

•             Data analysis, profiling, movement (ETL) experience to support managing source data quality, cleanup

•             Experience with higher education budgeting and financial accounting  systems is preferred

•         Excellent written and oral communication skills, including translating complex technical concepts and issues into effective business cases for non-technical audiences 

•         Ability to work effectively on multiple tasks with competing deadlines

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or at least 5 years of experience in a professional IT environment

Minimum of 3 years experience in design and development on BI platforms

Proficiency in Unix/Linux Operating Systems

A minimum of two years experience in data warehousing, including lead technical roles . 

Preferred Qualifications:

Minimum of 3 years experience in Hyperion design and development (including architecture, Planning, Essbase, calculation scripts, performance tuning) in complex business and financial environments

Proficiency in Unix/Linux Operating Systems

Minimum of 1 year experience installing and developing on EPM version 11.X.

A minimum of two years experience in enterprise implementations of Hyperion tools and systems is required, including lead technical roles . 

Experience configuring and implementing the following preferred:

1.         Hyperion Planning

2.         Hyperion Strategic Finance

3.         Unix Shell Scripting

 Master's degree

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