BI Data Developer

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We are looking for a Business Intelligence (BI) Data Developer to join our Finance team in our Brisbane Office. Reporting to the Business Intelligence (BI) Technology Leader (Finance) this role will be primarily involved in understanding and engineering the flow and processing of data within the overall Finance BI landscape and in particular the primary Finance BI reporting system, Insight.  The role will report to the BI Data Lead, and work closely with the other Data Developers, Visualisation and End-User Reporting Developers, along with Product Management and other Finance teams, locally and abroad. 

The BI Data Developer will provide technical input to the development of the Insight roadmap, providing considered and knowledgeable contributions to the proposed method for Insight enhancement.  They will assist the BI Data Lead with the adoption and adherence to high standards of application development, whilst ensuring an agile and ‘can-do’ approach.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Key areas of responsibilities will include:

• A significant contribution to the robustness and accuracy of the Insight data process, between the ingestion of source data and the presentation of organised data to reporting mechanisms and user front-end systems.
• Maintenance of extant data processes as directed by the BI Data Lead, to ensure efficiency, performance and appropriateness in meeting the business requirement.
• Enhancement of existing data processes to support changed business requirements.
• Development of new data processes to support new and changed business requirements.
• Assist in the refinement of Agile Stories associated with the development of data processes.
• Insurance of effective ‘handover’ of support processes between time-zones.

EA Compliance:

• Documentation of programming design and process-analysis work
• Documentation of support processes related to the operational performance of Insight
• Consult with infrastructure, project and product teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to consult as appropriate when it seems necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

ABOUT YOU

• Solid background in data manipulation, SQLScript programming, star schema data structures and data modelling for reporting.
• Experience of building SAP calculation views to support reporting tools, such as Business Objects
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and technical skills
• Very good working knowledge of SAP HANA, implementation and exploitation within a SUSE Linux environment
• Experience of using HANA in Azure as a native application.
• Experience of working as a remote member of a larger team; comfortable with representing their team to their local user community.
• Knowledge and practical experience of Python, particularly within a HANA environment, would be desirable.
• An ability to assist in the understanding and translation of business issues and clearly formulate technical solutions to the issues
• Working with and alongside a Product Management function (“Product Owners”) to derive effective solutions.
• Practical experience in working within a Scrum Agile development environment and delivering against a regular Sprint cadence.
• Ability to perform code reviews.
• Good understanding of the integration of external data sources into the BI architecture.
• Good knowledge of the integration between Business Objects and SAP HANA would be an advantage.
• Good understanding of related disciplines such as Master Data management (MDM), Metadata Management and Data Governance
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations.
• A strong sense of ‘ownership’ and responsibility in the solutions developed and in their team.
• Experience of working within a corporate Finance department is desirable, though not mandatory.