Posted over 3 years ago

Wavicle Data Solutions designs and delivers data and analytics solutions to reduce time, cost, and risk of companies’ data projects, improving the quality of their analytics and decisions now and into the future. As a privately-held consulting service organization with popular, name brand clients across multiple industries, Wavicle offers exciting opportunities for data scientists, solutions architects, developers, and consultants to jump right in and contribute to meaningful, innovative solutions.

Our 250+ local, nearshore and offshore consultants, data architects, cloud engineers, and developers build cost-effective, right-fit solutions leveraging our team’s deep business acumen and knowledge of cutting-edge data and analytics technology and frameworks.

At Wavicle, you’ll find a challenging and rewarding work environment where we enjoy working as a team to exceed client expectations. Employees appreciate being part of something meaningful at Wavicle. Wavicle has been recognized by industry leaders as follows:

• Chicago Tribune’s Top Workplaces
• Inc 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the US
• Crain’s Fast 50 fastest growing companies in the Chicago area
• Talend Expert Partner recognition
• Microsoft Gold Data Platform competency

About the Role:

A Business Intelligence Engineer performs mission critical duties in our Data Visualization competency, contributing to and leading the development of our enterprise data and analytics platforms. This individual is not only technical and able to use different data visualization tools to produce dashboards and reports, but they are an effective storyteller. They are able to tell a story about the data in order for our clients to fully understand what the data is telling them, and allows them then to drive business insights from that data.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Provide advanced Business Intelligence and Reporting expertise for projects that enable analytics to drive optimization of decisions for client(s), within a team of BI engineers.
• Design new methods and processes to ensure maximum effectiveness of client data.
• Partner with business/data analysts to provide solutions enabling business partners insights to their data to make decisions.
• Identify processes and tools that can be shifted towards automation to enable seamless development and self-service analytics workloads.
• Partner with various business units and data stewards to understand the business needs.
• Obtain and/or maintain technical expertise of available data preparation and visualization tools (Thoughtspot, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik) as well as programming languages (SQL, etc.)

• Ensure data is secure, relevant, and maintains high quality standards.
• Identify and implement industry best practices.
• Evaluate new data sets to determine appropriate ingestion techniques.
• Generate documentation on existing production data logic and its influencing business processes, in order to reconcile knowledge gaps between the business and reporting.

Requirements

• 2 - 5 years of experience in delivering data visualization solutions that include reports and KPIs.
• 2+ years of hands-on development and delivery experience with three or more business intelligence and visualization tools including Thoughtspot (preferred), Power BI, Tableau, QuickSights, Business Objects, Looker, Cognos, etc.
• Experience building, testing, automating and optimizing connections and reports.
• Experience using AWS, Azure, Snowflake, On-Premises Databases or similar products.
• Strong understanding and prior use of SQL and be highly proficient in the workings of data technologies.
• Deep understanding of data testing techniques, and a proven record of driving sustainable change to the software development practice to improve quality and performance.
• Proficiency with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), programming languages (e.g. DAX).
• Expertise selecting context-appropriate data modeling techniques, including Kimball dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, snowflake, and others.
• Passion for software development and data and be highly skilled in performing data visualizations to optimize quantitative analyses on various business functions.
• Familiarity with Scrum, DevOps, and DataOps methodologies, and supporting tools such as JIRA.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to communicate analytical and technical concepts with confidence and in an easy-to-understand fashion to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor or Masters’ degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or another related field.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Wavicle is an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or veteran status.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Work From Home
• College Tuition Benefit
• Bonus Program