Business Intelligence Analyst or Sr. Analyst

Position Description:

Overview:
Responsible for applications systems analysis and design of new/changing systems/technologies. Provides support skills for modifying and maintaining existing systems in order to meet internal and external user requirements.

This position requires a combination of technical expertise (60-70%) and skills in analysis, communication and collaboration (30-40%) through direct support of stakeholders as a technical business analyst.

On the technical front we seek a candidate with deep experience in Business Intelligence development and support (primarily in WebFocus) and in dimensional data modeling, architecting and warehousing in a BI environment. The non-technical requirements of the position center around possessing strong written and verbal communication skills, a service-oriented attitude and interest in working collaboratively/iteratively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities/Relationships:
- Supports existing systems and performs maintenance and enhancement
- Leads small to medium-sized development projects through the development life cycle.
- Estimates work effort and reports, updates the status of projects and work assignments.
- Develops new systems with an emphasis on minimized maintenance requirements.
- Performs systems analysis design and debugging of new systems.
- Provides technical input to other areas and gathers technical data from outside organizations.
- May plan and execute testing and implementation of major systems.
- Contributes to project plans for large projects and supports their implementation.
- Provides mentoring and coaching to grow skills of workgroup staff on technical standards and guidelines for application support and development.
- Provides technical assistance and work direction to aid other employees.


Position Requirements:

Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree, with a technology or business emphasis, or equivalent education/experience.
- 5 years of related experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Business Intelligence Expertise in WebFocus: Expert-level of knowledge of WebFocus report design and development, trouble-shooting, debugging and performance optimization.
- Additional Business Intelligence Skills: User, role and group administration, server and services configuration, security administration, process monitoring, working with vendor-provided support, as report and dashboard builders, ad hoc query, analysis and multi-dimensional (OLAP) tools.
- Data Expertise: Knowledge and experience with major DBMS such as Oracle and SQL Server, SQL development skills, experience with other data modeling tools, data architecture skills and dimensional modeling.

Other Skills:
- Advanced organization skills.
- Business Analyst expertise: leading needs assessment activities with non-technical stakeholders, translating business needs into technical requirements.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.


Position Attributes:

EOE M/F/D/V


Business Unit:

2HOTL - Carlson Hotels Worldwide-Corp

If interested, please apply online at http://track.jobviper.com/ViewJob.asp?id=506839-3-213