Job description
At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.
Responsibilities:
We are seeking an experienced senior data engineer with specialization in business intelligence to perform architecture and development activities within the data engineering team and provide mentorship, guidance, onboarding, and training of other Data Engineers. You will work closely with product management, engineering, account management, ETL, data warehouse, business intelligence, and reporting teams as you develop data pipelines and enhancements, business intelligence architecture, and investigate and troubleshoot issues, create data models, set up and investigate new technologies, and research complex data. Your adept SQL, MicroStrategy, and engineering skills will be crucial in data manipulation, development, and delivery of critical solutions.
In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:
- Create and maintain complex BI solutions using MicroStrategy, aligning with the healthcare and wellbeing industry standards.
- Utilize SQL extensively for troubleshooting MicroStrategy and understanding the implications of design choices.
- Convert detailed business requirements into robust, functional BI solutions.
- Collaborate with various stakeholders, understanding their complex data needs and ensuring fulfilment.
- Develop API integrations and build solutions that leverage the MicroStrategy API
- Proactively identify issues with the platform and assist in their resolution.
- Triaging complex bugs and incidents and resolving them in a timely manner.
- Active participation in sprint refinement, planning, and kick-off to help estimate stories, raise awareness and additional implementation details.
- Performing, maintaining, and implementing new quality assurance rules, methods, and tools to maintain consistent and accurate data.
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Qualifications:In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
- Proven experience with MicroStrategy
You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics:
- Understanding of the MicroStrategy semantic layer and all objects and functions of the tool, including dossiers, reports, attributes, facts, advanced metrics, filters, prompts, consolidations, custom groups, derived elements, and many other features.
- Deep understanding of modern relational and non-relational models and differences between them.
- Clear understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and how to include the full cycle in development of BI reports and tools.
- Ability to build, understand, and use APIs.
- Deep understanding of relational database modeling and the implications of design choices on performance.
- Experience with Snowflake or similar
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
- Detail oriented and able to examine data and code for quality and accuracy.
- Able to lead and mentor more junior data engineers.
- Self-Starter – taking initiative when inefficiencies or opportunities are seen.
- Expert in writing complex SQL, including pivots, window functions, and complex date calculations.
- Fluent in Python programming language.
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
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Why work at Virgin Pulse?
We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive culture and cutting-edge technology and services. Virgin Pulse is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice. To that end, we make a particular effort to recruit candidates from minoritized backgrounds to apply for open positions.
In compliance with all states and cities that require transparency of pay, the base compensation for this position ranges up to $125,000 annually. Note that salary may vary based on location, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for 10% target bonus/variable compensation as well as health, dental, vision, mental health and other benefits.