Senior BI/Reporting Architect

Title: Senior BI/Reporting Architect

Pay Rate: $85,000++

Skills: Business Intelligence, ETL, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, Business Analytics

Job Description
SD3 is seeking a Senior BI/Reporting Architect with a financial background. This is a career opportunity with an SD3 client located in Chicago. The Senior BI/Reporting Architect will participate in full life cycle development of a variety of Business Intelligence and reporting applications, including requirements gathering and analysis, design, and development activities. You will help clients drive more information from disparate data sources to help them maintain a competitive edge, and will help develop and maintain an internal best practices and development artifacts.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements gathering and definition, planning, design and execution of BI projects at client engagements
• Provide technical leadership to help influence the short and long term Business Intelligence roadmaps and the direction of application projects from data capture through application design & implementation
• Define and implement best practices and procedures for all BI tools and architectures
• Develop complex reports, ETL scripts and dashboards
• Contribute to collective team knowledge by researching new technologies and products pertinent to financial services as well as keeping up to date with professional publications and maintaining person and professional networks
• Contribute to and maintain the firm's knowledge capital including methodologies, development standards, design artifacts, and best practices applicable to reporting and Business Intelligence projects
• Contribute to various sales activities
• Enhance organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Key Requirements - most but not all required

• Graduate (BS, BA, MS or PhD) with a strong academic record preferably with a computer science, engineering or science degree
• Deep understanding of business reporting challenges and best practices, and able to discuss them with clients
• Proven expertise in gathering and documenting business requirements for BI/reporting systems, then designing a solution to meet those requirements
• Able to analyze multiple source data stores and determine how related information can be transformed and consolidated for reporting purposes
• Skilled at documenting technical requirements, creating technical designs and developing logical/physical data models
• Recent hands-on experience in developing reports, ETL scripts or dashboards
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills
• Ability and desire to work in a fast paced, ever-changing environment
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• 8+ years experience, with 3+ as lead BI Architect on data warehousing, data architecture or business analytics development projects.
• Prior experience in client services and/or consulting environment
• Prior experience within financial services
• Knowledge of futures, equities and options markets

About SD3
SD3 is an Information Technology consulting firm dedicated to providing superior service, quality, and satisfaction to our clients. SD3 specializes in managing projects and/or providing expert consultants for the areas of custom application and database development, Datawarehouse and system integration. At SD3, we value our consultants' ability to blend into our client's organization, fill in their gaps, and work cooperatively within their team while at the same time bringing an outside, out-of-the-box perspective to all of their information technology issues.

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Candidates for this position must be located in the Chicago area and have the following skills: strong written and oral communications, and demonstrated ability to work independently and as a strong team member.

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No third party candidates will be considered. Only qualified candidates with suitable experience will be contacted. No H1 sponsorship available.