OBIEE Lead

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Title: OBIEE Lead

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Duration: 3 months plus

Rate: $50/hr

OBIEE   Lead

Looking for enthusiastic, self motivated, fast paced Business Intelligence Technical Lead for OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence).  The candidate has to have a high proficiency in understanding business processes, and designing reporting and business intelligence solutions to meet the requirements. This person should be comfortable working in a highly global environment with dispersed teams. Understanding of the pharmaceutical business is highly preferred.  The ideal candidate will reflect a mix of strong technical proficiency, application maintenance ownership, and the ability to work effectively with other business and technology personnel and internal customers to provide very responsive support to this global application.

Job Requirements:

5-7 years of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and/or Siebel Analytics development experience

5-7 years of Informatica development experience

Strong knowledge of the Oracle databases, SQL and PL/SQL

Provide quality assurance checkpoints related to BI development

Technical Skills

Collaborate proactively with product managers and analysts to translate business and integration requirements into scalable designs and solutions.

Design, implement and test Oracle Business Intelligence applications

Responsible for managing of coding and unit testing application software across production support, enhancements and projects

Design and develop technical solutions to a pre-defined requirement and develop components including Data Models, Dashboards, Reports and ETL jobs.

Enhance performance in the BI environment. Tuning code, reviewing tables and applying indexes where needed.

Follow documentation, version control and testing, and migration standards

Strong understanding of the lifecycle of technical development from technical design, unit testing to user testing, to production migration. Emphasize adherence to standards and controls, and conduct quality assurance over programs before migration to production

Develop a cooperative environment that fosters knowledge sharing

Provide technical guidance and mentoring to others in areas of expertise

Ability to create working prototypes

Familiar with agile development methodologies

Soft Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Self-starter with the ability to prioritize and plan complex work for self and a large team in a rapidly changing environment

Result oriented – Ability to produce products that demonstrate results

Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude and takes initiative

Experienced team player - experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions

Strong conceptual and analytical skills - demonstrated outside-the-box problem solving skill

Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive priorities

Ability to get along with various personalities (business users, system analysts, project managers, developers, testers, etc.) is crucial

Excellent follow-through and attention to detail

Self starter that can deal with ambiguity

Actively listens to client and teammates; makes others better

Critical thinker

Positive attitude in challenging environments

Driven to produce a quality product; is goal-oriented

Ability to make tough decisions that may not be appreciated by the customer, and communicate same in a way that they can at minimum appreciate and accept rationale.

Ability to probe for enough details to understand and clarify the real business need/value versus the request, and be able to confirm same back with the customer

Project Tasks & Deliverables

Acts as single point of contact for technical related matters for the Design, Build and Deploy phases

Co-ordinates technical sub teams; Offshore and, Architecture, Network and Service groups to ensures all planned activities are completed to time and quality

Assists in the planning of design, build, migration and deployment activities and works with PM to ensure progress are tracked and updated regularly

Ensures all changes requests or requirements are technical assessed, dependencies, impacts, risks and issues are identified and fully documented

Ensures all deliverable produced conform to company technical standards and policies

Ensures all documentation produced conform to programme standards.

Identifies and reports risks and issues to PM and assists in the mitigation and resolution of such risks and issues

Ensures requirements are fully traceable from Design -> Build

Ensures a configuration baseline is established and documented between each release

Ensure deployment activities are transitioned to Service Team, supported by the appropriate approved documentation, prior to production release.

Attends Project Delivery Team meetings