Senior OBIEE/OAS Developer

Company Description

Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. During life’s big moments – from buying a home or car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business exponentially by connecting it with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage data with confidence so they can maximize every opportunity. We gather, analyse and process data in ways others can’t. We help individuals take financial control and access financial services, businesses make smarter decision and thrive, lenders lend more responsibly, and organizations prevent identity fraud and crime. For more than 125 years, we’ve helped consumers and clients prosper, and economies and communities flourish – and we’re not done. Our 20,600 people in 43 countries believe the possibilities for you, and our world, are growing. We’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow.

Job Description

2. Role Purpose:

Accountable for the support of Oracle Business Analytics and Oracle Business Intelligene, ETL and ELT technologies including ODI, Informatica related reporting applications used by Experian. To ensure system availability by proactive system support and speedy resolution of application errors. Assist users to understand and leverage the capabilities of the data warehouse(s). Provide knowledge of data and data warehouse design in support of projects and enhancements.

3. Major Job Functions:

1. Functional Responsibilities

• Design and develop reporting solutions using BI publisher (BIP)
• Developing, supporting, and maintaining OBIEE12c/OAS repository model, reports, and dashboards;
• Must have experience in working on High-Availability and possibly cloud Infrastructure environments.
•  Must have excellent understanding of PSU’s and CPU’s patches in relation to OBIA and OBIEE/OAS
•  Should possess analytical and implementation/development experience on Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Data Integrator.
•  Ability to design and troubleshoot Oracle database queries and logic involved with business intelligence applications.
•  Ability to provide Application Production Support as well as design & develop.
•  Ability to translate Business requirements to high quality set of technical requirements
•  Good understanding of diverse source systems and relational databases in BI space
•  Nice to have experience on applying the patches on Oracle BI products but essential to have experience on OBIA 11.1.1.10.x
•  Experience handling the windows and UNIX batch scripting.
•  Analyze ETL & ELT processes and ability to identify areas for performance improvements and automation
• Expected to lead process improvement initiatives.
• Expected to assist and mentor less experienced team members.
• Expected to support and streamline daily Batch Jobs/scheduled jobs and automate the same.
• Expected to identify potential process improvement areas and suggest options and recommend approaches.

Independent, knowledgeable, and self–motivated

• b) Internal Relationship Management
• Interact daily with internal customers and GCSS managers.
• Faciliate periodic status meetings with internal customers.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with EITS/GCSS colleagues.
• Maintain effective working relationships with other regions’ peers/teams.
• c) External Relationship Management
• Liaison with third party suppliers such as Oracle.
• Creation and management of third party service requests.
• d) Application of Processes, Controls, Standards and Measures

Maintain Experian Service Management documentation and change standards, following the prescribed

software development life cycle.

• Provide service meeting Service Level Agreements for incident, problem, and change management.
• Adhere to information security and audit requirements.
• Work to continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of systems.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree, preferably IT-related.

Skills:

• Extensive experience developing and supporting OBIEE/OAS repository model, reports and dashboards
• Extensive hands-on technical expertise with ETL & ELT technologies (Admin & Developer), Oracle BI Application (OBIA), OBIEE reporting (Admin & Developer), data modelling techniques as well as solid knowledge of Data Warehousing concepts.
• Sound functional knowledge with Oracle eBS ERP and SF.Com CRM applications and assist in any transitioning of data sets to big data platform as our requirements evolve in future.
• Extensive knowledge of Oracle Business Intelligence integrated with Hyperion Essbase and relational database (OBIEE 12c/OAS, Essbase 11.x)
• Experience in supporting the Oracle BI application upgrades
• Ability to provide application production support as well as design & develop.
• Ability to translate business requirements to high quality set of technical requirements
• Effective management of Support tickets with hand offs/exchanges with peers on team working in global time zones.
• Extensive Client/User interaction and expanding globally as we evolve our big data platform and analytics tool portfolio
• Develops rules and methodologies for data collection and analysis
• Consolidates data from a broad spectrum of information systems and existing data repositories using Oracle Business Intelligence Tool
• Development experience with physical and logical data models
• Provide application analysis and data modeling design to collect data for centralized data warehouse.
• Extract data from databases and data warehouses for reporting and to facilitate sharing between multiple data systems.
• Proficient in the use of query and reporting analysis tools.
• Standardize data collection by developing methods for database design and validation reports.
• Critical Business operations and interactions during US Business hours catering to Sales Operations, Finance and Sourcing Business teams
• Requires comprehensive knowledge of the principles, practices, and procedures used in all phases of full life cycle applications and systems development, engineering, programming, and analysis
• Knowledge of and experience with Oracle Business Intelligence tools, techniques and processes for complex data gathering, analysis and reporting on data for large organizations.
• Ability to analyze data, resolve issues using simple to complex SQL and understanding of end to end data flow from source to databases and reporting.
• Experience writing, testing and implementing complex SQL & PL/SQL & Unix scripts
• Experience gathering end user requirements and translating into technical specification

 6+ years of progressive IT professional experience

• • 3+ years of experience supporting BI applications, preferably 12c version in a global environment.
  • 3+ years of experience providing customer support in a technical environment
  • Experience with OBIA, OBIEE/OAS, SQL, PL/SQL, ETL (Informatica) and ELT (ODI) tools, Unix and Windows

Experience:

Pluses:

• Experience working for a global company, effectively dealing with multiple countries and cultures
• Team player with proven abilities to work in complex cross-functional and geographically diverse teams
• Fluency in a second language
• Experience with offshore development

5. Role Dimensions:

• Support users in multiple countries with different cultural and business environments.
• Have the ability and flexibility to travel internationally.
• Maintain a flexible approach to working arrangements across different time zones and a ‘follow the sun’ support process.
• Work within different cultural and multi-lingual environments.
• Be available to work weekend and off-hours at short notice.
• Possess strong strategic process and procedure methodology with attention to maintaining robust audit controls.

6. Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Continuous Improvement
• Information Monitoring
• Managing Work
• Building Strategic Work Relationships
• Collaboration
• Driving for Results
• Quality Orientation

Additional Information

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