BI Analyst

Location: Albany, NY
Security Clearance: No clearance-- must be US Citizen or Green Card holder, as this position supports government entities
Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $70,000 - $80,000

*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

Position Overview:

Deliver solutions to complex problems as a Data Analyst/BI Developer. Here, you’ll tailor solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

You will join our team in partnership with New York State of Health (NYSoH) to provide comprehensive health coverage to more than 7.0 million New Yorkers through its Health Benefit Exchange (HBE)

Key Responsibilities:

• You will work on a small dynamic team that provides strategic know-how through Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Visualization platforms to deliver quality reports for State & Federal Agencies.
• Apply an understanding of business metrics and a commercial mindset to perform Data analysis, find patterns, data anomalies and review.
• Work closely with functional teams to understand requirements regarding solutions to ensure data quality. Collaborate on definition, development, and maintenance of standards and processes.
• Develop models and create templates to ensure timely and accurate deliverables, data integrity, efficient workflow, reusability, and automation. Create dashboards using workspace advance to facilitate drill up/down and slicing/dicing of data. Produce Ad Hoc reports with a turnaround time based on business needs.
• Support continuous improvement and automation in BI solutions and processes.
• Support client data exchange and integration needs by leveraging technical expertise in database applications, ETL processes, and automation. Apply knowledge of upstream and downstream Enterprise applications to support dashboard development lifecycle discipline

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent

Required Experience: NO MORE than 5 years of experience will be accepted

• Three (3) years of industry experience with focus on SQL, PL/SQL, SQL-PL in DB2
• Three (3) years’ experience with a BI tool (Cognos is preferred)
• Two (2) years of experience in design/data modeling for Data Mart/Data Warehouse

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of OLAP business intelligence applications
• Strong understanding of reporting and database environments, processes, and associated applications
• Competencies leveraging data visualization tools for senior management and enterprise data visualization
• Ability to translate business requirements into specifications that will be used to implement required reports and dashboards
• Knowledge of RTC/ELM or similar tools
• Competencies in database architecture such as relative, star and snowflake schemas.
• Competencies in DB2 (or other RDBMS)
• Level 3 Procedural Languages (i.e.: ANSI, SQL, PL/SQL)
• Writing complex SQL queries, SQL PL procedures in IBM DB2 environment.
• Competencies with UNIX/LINUX operating systems

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Good verbal, writing/documentation, communication, organizational, and time management skills
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills, including mapping of business need or issue to development of application requirements or procedural initiatives.
• Strong understanding of reporting and database environments, processes, and associated applications.
• Well-developed knowledge of operational systems, processes and budgeting/forecasting concepts and activities
• Proven ability to ensure effective forms of documentation essential for support of overall technical and user needs.
• Ability to work in complex matrix organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.0 or higher
• Experience authoring and maintaining reports using IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.0 or higher against relational, dimensional, and transactional databases
• Experience with Core Java
• Hands-on experience with data architecture and data analysis skill sets
• Familiarity with PMI standards and practice
• Healthcare Industry experience