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Job Title: Pentaho Administrator

Location: Washington, DC

Duration- 6M with very high potential to extend

Contract Start Date: Wants to start someone on December 1 or sooner

Top Required Skills-

Data Warehousing

Schemas (ex. Star or Snowflake)

Pentaho

OVERALL PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Serves as technical team leader in the development of business intelligence solutions and other reports and analysis across all divisions of the organization. Writes complex SQL scripts to extract data from various databases and systems to make data available for enterprise reporting. Provides day-to-day management of overall reporting environment. The results provide ongoing support to USAC decision-makers, the FCC, Congress, and other interested parties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

The position's essential duties include the following:

Administer Pentaho Environments in Dev, Test and Production domains.

Work with Support to solve various Pentaho issues faced by Team,

Work on Performance issues in Pentaho.

Design and optimize data mart schemes in order to handle the dimensions and measures required

Create Schemas using Pentaho Infrastructure for Reporting & Analytics

Serve as sole subject matter expert in the development of business intelligence reports and analysis

Research and integrate external data sources into USACs OLTP and Data Mart environment

Manage reporting environment including report data sources, security, subscriptions and metadata

Assist in data normalization and data integrity initiatives across the enterprise

Assist Data Warehouse Engineers in identifying and revising enterprise reporting requirements

Evaluate, test and implement new or upgraded software

Troubleshoot reported problems pertaining to reports and the reporting database environment, working closely with other IT members, especially DBAs, Systems Analysts and Systems Engineers, identifying the cause and designing or developing an approach for resolution

Assess impact of changes and updates to source production systems, planning and implementing resulting changes to reports

Work directly with business owners and analysts in the development of requirements and user stories for data solutions

Assist with the development of data related APIs for the exposure of USAC data to external customers

Conduct end user training on reporting system

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Type of Experience Years of Experience

 Knowledge of Relational Databases 7 years

 Knowledge of Columnar Databases or columnar storage 5 years

 SQL Programming 7 years

 Pentaho Administration 5 years

 ETL Management 5 years

 Data Modelling 5 years

 Data warehousing 5 years

 SQL Server Management Studio 4 years

 SQL Server Integration Services 4 years

 SQL Server Analysis Services 2 years

 Microsoft Excel 4 years

 Microsoft Access 1 year

 Microsoft Visio 2 years

 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 or above 2 years

NOTE: In addition, please list any desired experience.

 Microsoft SQL Server 2012/2014

 HP Vertica

 Amazon Redshift

 Pentaho Install/Configuration/Administration

 Pentaho Deployments

 Pentaho BI Suite

 Pentaho PDI

 Any other BI Tools like Business Objects, Cognos etc

 Team Foundation Server

 ERwin

 TOAD for Oracle

 Creating visual displays for data analysis and presentation

SPECIAL SKILLS:

 Ability to track records in entity relationship and dimensional modeling.

 Ability to translate logical models into physical implementation.

 Excellent verbal and written communication skills are an absolute must.

 Ability to work well under pressure and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.

 Outstanding analytic skills-in particular, an ability to translate an unstructured strategic question into a structured program of research, to disaggregate potential drivers of performance, to explore relationships between multiple pieces of data, and to test and identify the drivers underlying performance measures

 Outstanding ability to synthesize research results into actionable strategies and recommendations

 Advanced verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present effectively to small and large groups.

 Energetic, organized, detail-oriented

 Consistent ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

 Must be strong self-starter able to work independently under limited supervision

 Ability to build consensus and to work through others in achieving desired results and objectives.

 Consistent ability to set and deliver against a work plan in a fast-paced environment

 Ability to foster a cooperative work environment and to freely give and receive feedback

 Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.

 Ability to lift 15 - 25 pounds

 General computer and presentation skills

 Customer and results oriented

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to gmahesh@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703-880-4184