Business Intelligence Consultant / Administrator

Key Skills

API, Business Intelligence, CSS, Data Biuld Tool - dbt, Data Modeling, HTML, Looker, MySQL, Python Programming, REST API, SDK, Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, Unix Operating system

Job Description

Business Intelligence Consultant / Administrator - Microstrategy

Bring your extensive experience in platform architecture and administration to help grow one of the world’s fastest-growing social networks.

You'll join a team of analytics professionals working on exciting and innovative projects as well as shaping our day to day operations. The Reporting Analytics team offers the chance to collaborate with data scientists, analysts and database developers with opportunities to gain or enhance skills across a number of other BI tools like Python & Jupyter.

Key Accountabilities

• Define and own the architecture of the BI platforms owned by the team (we use MicroStrategy mainly but we may have additional tools in our portfolio in the near future)
• Plan and implement platform upgrades and hotfixes 
• Automate aspects of the SDLC and bring efficiencies with the Reporting Analytics team by reducing level of efforts on recurring tasks 
• Drive initiatives such as new visualisations, Web SDK, Python and R integration/adoption 
• Constantly monitor and evaluate computation costs and performance of our reporting solutions and identify opportunities of improvement across tools or platforms we use. Advise the team on best practices. 
• Partner with database development and analytics team to extend the capabilities of the platform 
• Act as a centre of governance and control on behalf of the company ensuring changes are made in accordance with industry best practices 
• Support evaluation of new BI tools to complement the current stack.

Experience we are looking for

• Experience in platform administration of Microstrategy and/or other similar tools (Tableau, Looker, etc.) 
• Experience administering tools like DBT to manage the data model used for reporting solutions 
• Good SQL skills 
• Experience working on Unix environments 
• Experience using Exasol, Snowflake, MySQL or similar databases 
• Data Modelling experience would be preferred 
• Knowledge of SSO architecture 
• Some experience with REST APIs, Task API 
• HTML, CSS and Javascript -very desirable but not essential 
• Related certifications in Platform, System Administration, Architecture, SDK would be preferred 

About You

• You understand how to balance long term projects against short term needs of the business. You are able to balance between the urgent and important initiatives. 
• You are an enabler and someone who thrives on building capability around them.
• Able to act as a mentor to others and educate them on the principles of managing large BI systems.
• You constantly question the status quo and look for ways to improve processes within your domain but also those around you.
• Able to plan complex projects such as upgrades/infrastructure changes with ease.
• Strong sense of governance and risk mitigation.
• Able to operate with senior management but also contribute to team deliverables which may be outside of your official role.
• Understands the long term view and makes progress towards that through partnering with others.

Benefits

• A totally inclusive, equitable, comfortable and safe space for all employees 
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (not including two company-wide week’s off) 
• Focus Fridays
• 26 weeks full paid parental leave 
• Annual Bonus
• Equity Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Private Dental Insurance 
• Subsidised and discounted gym membership 
• Learning and development budget 
• Free lunch (cooked by our superb onsite catering team) and an amazing selection of snacks and drinks 
• Premium App Access