BI Engineer/Data Visualization - IT Sustainability

Job Title: BI Engineer/Data Visualization - IT Sustainability Location: Hybrid Onsite in Issaquah, WA 2-3x / Week Type: 6 Month Contract to Hire Job Description: Business Intelligence (BI) Engineers are responsible for the successful delivery, design, and support of high visibility desktop reports, mobile reports, and dashboards. BI Engineers leverage BI applications in accordance with application development standards and best practices. BI Engineers work closely with Product Owners and UI/UX Designers during wireframe and prototype development. This role will also engage with Architects (Solution/Data), Engineers (Data, Platforms, DevOps, etc.), and Stakeholders to deliver timely, accurate, high performing, and reliable BI products and solutions to end-users. BI Engineers identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality of data management required for building BI applications and reports. Business Intelligence (BI) Engineers are responsible for designing, engineering, and developing business intelligence (BI) solutions - integrating complex data sets, queries, reports, dashboards, analyses - to answer business questions. The solutions support critical and ongoing merchandising operations and must be available anytime on any device - laptop, desktop, mobile. BI Engineers work closely with product owners to understand business needs and then design and engineer the appropriate visualizations and analytics to solve the problem. This role also engages with BI Solution Architects and Data Architects to assist in solution design efforts including analysis, design, and architecture. BI Engineers are responsible to support the solutions during operations as needed and build appropriate enhancements. Job Duties/Essential Functions: Owns responsibility for end-to-end development and support of our BI reporting environments for ongoing metrics, reports, dashboards, etc. Assists in the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments. Adopts and adapts to newly approved technologies, programming languages, tools, and standards for business intelligence. Collaborates to ensure application designs utilize appropriate patterns and standards. Documents BI application specifications and produces operational support manuals. Analyzes business needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints, including the ability to estimate work needed. Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points. Assesses functional and nonfunctional requirements and creates designs to meet both business and technical needs. Designs builds and maintains automated reporting, dashboards, and analysis to enable teams to self-service data needs. Supports defining technical requirements, such as tool or platform selection criteria for the reporting environments. Assists in solution design efforts (i.e. analysis, data warehouse design, architecture) and understands the data warehouse or data marts implementation related to BI. Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional, system management, and service quality. Ensures the appropriate BI architectural standards are adhered to. Tests and resolves problems, performs root cause analysis, identifies gaps, recommends solutions and preventative measures. Automates, documents, shares, educates, delegates, and improves processes. Applies knowledge to practical and sustainable applications and capabilities. Partners with product owners, product managers, the solution leads, and other stakeholders to create and maintain robust datasets and models to support reporting and self-service solutions. Builds prototypes and wireframes of potential features. Translates business needs into technical specifications to deliver customized reporting and software solutions (BI, Advanced analytics, APIs/Services). Works in tandem with BI/Solution Architects, Data Architects, Data Stewards, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Quality Engineers to design efficient visualizations, score cards, dashboards, reports; and recommends ongoing optimization of BI data models, data sets, and data quality. Oversees the end-to-end development and support of our BI reporting environments for ongoing metrics, reports, dashboards using Power BI, Power App, Power Automate, and other technologies as needed. Creates data visualizations that illustrate data learnings and insights in an understandable and user-friendly manner through software UI / UX design using Power BI and other tools as needed. Creates, refines, and optimizes dashboards for reporting applications by connecting to one or many of the following: Oracle, SAP BW, SAP HANA, and Azure services, such as Azure SQL DW (Synapse), ADLS, Cosmos, Databricks, Delta-Lake to improve and speed up delivery of BI solutions. Identifies, designs, and implements internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing BI capabilities. Identifies ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality of data management required for building BI applications and reports. Communicates technical concepts to non-technical audiences both in written and verbal form. Performs peer reviews for other BI engineers' work. Regular and reliable workplace attendance at your assigned location. Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery Computer, phone, printer, copier, fax Experience, Skills, Education & Licenses/Certifications: Required: 3 years' experience working with BI technologies and tools, such as IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau; proven and successful implementations of Microsoft Power BI. 2 years' of experience with Power BI. 1 years' using programing languages, such as Java, C#, DAX, MDX, SQL, Python. 1 years' BI related experience using ETL, Data warehousing management, Data Mining, Report Designer or development; ability to write complex SQL queries against a variety of data sources. Experience in using Azure cloud architecture, low code power apps, visualization technologies. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Recommended: BA/BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent software/services experience. Microsoft Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Power Platforms, IBM Cognos, Tableau certifications. Azure Certifications. Experience with Git / Azure DevOps. Experience delivering reporting design, visualizations, and solutions through agile software development methodologies. Experience working with sensitive data and ecommerce/distribution/logistics business areas. Exposure to the retail industry. Exposure to developing solutions for retail metrics (sales, inventory, margin, projections etc.). Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Experience with UC4 Job Scheduler or similar Job Schedulers, Power Automate toolset. Successful internal candidates will have spent one year or more on their current team. THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY WITH A FIRST-CLASS COMPANY BI Engineer/Data Visualization - IT Sustainability RED SKY Career Opportunities at: redskyconsulting.co/career-portal BI Engineer/Data Visualization - IT Sustainability RED SKY Consulting Candidate and Client Referral Program 2500 Do you know other IT professionals? Turn those relationships into Money & help friends get work RED SKY Consulting is offering a fantastic opportunity for you to earn extra money. If you refer to us a Manager of people or skilled professionals, we will link your name to that person for 18 months. If we employ or place that individual or place people into that company thru that manager BI Engineer/Data Visualization - IT Sustainability RED SKY Consulting Company Overview We are an IT and Cybersecurity staffing solutions, professional services, management consulting, and executive placement company with thousands of resources across multiple IT and Cybersecurity skill sets. Our primary US locations are Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Nashville, Tampa and Denver and we have organizational arms in other domestic cities along with offshore alliances in India and Ireland. RED SKY has a 15 year history of providing great technology talent. RED SKY has many clients including; 7 of the Fortune 10, half of the Fortune 100, and 25% of the Fortune 500 companies within the manufacturing, financial services, health care, government, consumer services, insurance, and several other industry verticals represented. The RED SKY Foundation is being formed and will be providing fully funded college educations to underprivileged young adults in partnership with our clients starting 2022. Keys: Business Intelligence, Engineer, Data Visualization, IT, Sustainability, Java, C#, ETL, Azure, Cloud, Business Intelligence, Engineer, Data Visualization, IT, Sustainability, Java, C#, ETL, Azure, Cloud, Business Intelligence, Engineer, Data Visualization, IT, Sustainability, Java, C#, ETL, Azure, Cloud XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX