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Business Intelligence Solutions Architect

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The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for an Business Intelligence Solutions Architect in our Business Technology department located at our National Center office located in Dallas, TX .

Areas of Responsibility: 

This individual will be responsible for developing, selecting and executing integrated technology solutions for support and analysis of business intelligence across AHA. Responsible for collaborating with stakeholders and team members to define, design and deliver actionable insights from master data sources in an Agile environment. Other responsibilities will include:

  • Designs integration architectures, defines data mappings, develops data models, and consults with the infrastructure team on server and data storage services.
  • Formulates and recommends standards for achieving maximum performance, compliance and efficiency of the Data Warehouse and Master Data Management systems.
  • Ensures accuracy and integrity of service-oriented architecture through analysis, coding, writing clear documentation and problem resolution.
  • Reviews issues and enhancements documented in the incident management and project management system for consideration of business needs.
  • Maintains in-depth current knowledge of standards, guidelines, and industry trends for Data Warehouse Architecture as it relates to reporting and operations.
  • Attends and interacts with user groups and researches new software vendors in the market.
  • Fosters use of self-service analytics, data governance and visual discovery while guiding changes and limited reliance on manual data processes.
  • Builds proof of concept and tangible results by sharing testing data.
  • Participates in the planning for retirement of systems programs, and migration of systems infrastructure by providing current state and future state architectural diagrams.
  • Works closely with Business Intelligence Manager to ensure prioritization of corporate and department objectives within the portfolio management system. Champions data quality, integrity and reliability throughout the department by designing data flow models and promoting development best practices with best of breed automation tools.
  • Provides mentoring to Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) team members with technical expertise, complex systems, and/or programming knowledge.
  • Provides on-the-job training for new or less experienced ETL team members. Provides technical training to external team members to encourage cross-department connections including the development and maintenance of standard operating procedures.
  • Provides a methodology for the ongoing assessment of database performance and the identification of problem areas by holding regularly scheduled reviews of code and monitoring software.
  • Develops business cases, impacts evaluation and ROI for department to get buy-in from senior management.
Educational Background: 
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology
Skills/Experience: 
  • Related extensive work experience Ten (10 ) years of experience with data mapping and Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) design and development.
  • Eight (8) years of experience with data modeling with an emphasis on ODS and Star schema models.
  • Five (5) years of experieince implementing integration architecture design.
  • Experience with Data Virtualization tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Business Intelligence Technology: SSRS, Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy ETL Technology: SSIS, DataStage, Informatica.
  • Time series analysis, clustering, decision trees and neural networks Database/Data Virtualization Technology: SQL Server, Oracle, Alteryx, Denodo, Hadoop, Cloudera Experience with Cloud offerings.

Organization Info

American Heart Association | American Stroke Association

Overview
Headquarters: 
Dallas, TX, United States
Annual Budget : 
More than $500M
Founded: 
1949
About Us
Mission: 

The American Heart Association's mission is to build healthier lives free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, America's No. 1 and No. 5 killers.

Founded in 1924, our organization now includes more than 30 million volunteers and supporters. We fund innovative research, fight for stronger public health policies, and provide critical tools and information to save and improve lives.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jan 22 2018
Active Until: 
Feb 22 2018
Hiring Organization: 
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry: 
Nonprofit