Lead Business Intelligence Developer at Andela

Description
What you’ll do:

• This highly visible business-facing role is responsible for building operational and critically important dashboards, scorecards, and other decision-support visualizations - all on a modern cloud platform. 
• The role will also support data warehouse design and executive-level discussions regarding new opportunities and viable capabilities of the business intelligence and visualization platform.

Responsibilities
Who you are:

• Hands-on developer and teammate with passion for working on a variety of data projects.
• Interacts directly and maintains flexibility with business to meet desired outcomes.
• Leads effort to build strong functional requirements to deliver premier data visualizations.
• Builds wireframes for insightful discussions, authors documentation, and supports end-user training around usage and full functionality.
• Participates and chips in to discussions regarding the advantages and disadvantages of data warehouse design approaches.
• Maintains metadata catalog for reporting, critical metrics, and available working visualizations.
• Supports code review process, provides advice and gives constructive feedback to fellow business intelligence and visualization developers.
• Crafts open dialogues and discourses with data team leads to remove much of the opacity in directional decision making.
• Supports the drive for innovation through identifying emerging trends and their alignment to business outcomes.
• Ensures that technical requirements and standard methodologies are met and deployed within the context of the data teams standards.
• Builds trust in all interactions and always strives to improve the team around you.
• Passion for leaving the code base better than it was found.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, Business, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Deep understanding of business intelligence and visualization tools, e.g. Looker.
• Experienced with dimensional modeling methodologies and approaches to support complex visualizations.
• Deep understanding of ANSI SQL.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms, e.g. GCP Big Query.
• Understanding of working with data integration tools, e.g. dbt.
• Ability to assess business needs and translate them into appropriate data designs.
• Experience researching performance bottlenecks, diagnosing problems, and articulating viable solutions to implement.
• General understanding of distributed version control systems, e.g. Git.
• Desire to work in a constantly evolving environment and maintain the ability to shift in new directions as business needs are altered.
• Ability to lead, handle, coach, mentor, and empower team members on a global scale.

Benefits

• Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote!
• Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela
• Quarterly work from home stipends
• Flexible working hours
• Equity (as a part of compensation package)
• Healthcare, 401k / pension (US only)
• Andela Affinity Groups
• Growth & development paths
• Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave
• And more to come! We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela.