Lead - Business Intelligence & Analytics at Airtel

Job description

Primary Job Duties:

• Business Intelligence and Analytics expertise with end-to-end delivery responsibility
• Championing deployment and administration of the various campaign management tools. Lead Airtel’s journey from batch based static campaign management to real time trigger and rule based campaign management.
• It is expected that the candidate will demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the global / regional trends and best practices in the industry / segment, including how Big Data is transforming marketing. The candidate should therefore have had a business hands-on experience with analytics methods, such as dynamic segmentation, multi-criteria decision making, data mining, campaign management systems and awareness or experience of advanced techniques such as location-based marketing, real-time scoring and social media. This will definitely be a criterion that will set the candidate apart.
• Formulates and recommends standards for achieving maximum performance and efficiency of the DW ecosystem.
• Participates in the planning for retirement of systems programs, and migration of systems infrastructure.
• Develop business cases and ROI for department to get buy-in from senior management.
• Interview stakeholders and develop BI roadmap for success given project prioritization and budget.
• Evangelize self-service BI and visual discovery while helping to change Excel based culture.
• Work closely with DW manager to ensure prioritization of corporate and departmental objectives and projects.
• Champion data quality, integrity and reliability throughout the department by designing and promoting best practices

 Team Mentoring

• Provide assistance to DW team members with issues needing technical expertise or complex systems and/or programming knowledge. Provide on-the-job training for new or less experienced team members.
• Provide technical training to external team members to foster stronger cross-departmental relations.

Required Skill Set:

• 10+ years of experience delivering business intelligence solutions
• 10+ years of experience with OLTP and OLAP database models
• Good analytical and problem solving skills with experience of real time analytics in a telecom or similar environment.
• Fluent in relational database concepts and flat file processing concepts
• Must be knowledgeable in software development lifecycles/methodologies i.e. agile
• Has strong presentation and collaboration skills and can communicate all aspects of the job requirements, including the creation of formal documentation
• Strong delivery, problem solving, time management and organizational skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent experience

Preferred Skill Set:

• Database Technology: SQL Server, Netezza, Hadoop, HANA, Cloudera, NoSQL or Stream computing
• ETL Technology
• BI Technology
• Exposure to UNICA, DB 2 and exposure to some big data solution deployments in a telco environment
• Time series analysis, clustering, decision trees and neural networks
• Master’s Degree Computer Science or Statistics

• Familiarity with TeleManagement Forum’s eTom, SID, and TAM models

Required

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 10 years experience in BI and Analytics
• At least 10 years experience in lead large complex multi-functional IT projects

Preferred

• Master's Degree
• At least 10 years experience in BI and Analytics
• At least 10 years experience in lead large complex multi-functional IT projects