IT Business Intelligence Developer

TITLE: Business Intelligence Developer / Integration Specialist

DEPARTMENT: IT

REPORTS TO: VP of Software Development, Infrastructure, and BI

LOCATION: Grapevine, TX

Small growing IT team looks to add one multi-talented developer.

Smart Start Inc is seeking a skilled and motivated BI/Integration Specialist to join our dynamic team. The BI/Integration Specialist will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining business intelligence (BI) solutions and integrating various systems to support data-driven decision-making across the organization. This position offers an exciting opportunity for an individual who is passionate about data integration, analytics, report generation, SQL server administration, and driving business insights through technology.

The BI Developers must gain an in-depth understanding of the underlying data, and proper business uses in order to translate end-user report requirements into robust reporting solutions. Additionally, this role supports the end-user community in the use of business intelligence tools to query databases for report outputs. If you want to be locked in a room and left alone to code for three months, this is not the job for you. The person in this role will not only need to talk to the end-user community, but will want to.

• Design, develop, and maintain BI solutions, including dashboards, reports, and data visualizations, to provide insights into business performance and trends.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand business needs, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Implement data integration processes to consolidate and streamline data from disparate sources, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and integrity.
• Develop and maintain data models, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, and data pipelines to support BI initiatives.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of BI systems and data integration processes, identifying and resolving issues as needed.
• Administer SQL Server databases, including installation, configuration, maintenance, and performance tuning.
• Develop and optimize SQL queries and stored procedures to support reporting and analysis requirements.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including IT, operations, and business units, to ensure alignment of BI solutions with organizational goals and objectives.
• Stay current on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in BI, data integration, and SQL server administration.
• Provide technical expertise and support to end-users, troubleshooting issues and assisting with data-related inquiries.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field or 5 years of experience in business intelligence, data integration, SQL server administration, or related roles.
• Strong proficiency in BI tools and technologies, such as Microsoft Power BI.
• Experience with data integration tools and platforms, such as SSIS, Informatica, or Talend.
• Solid understanding of data modeling concepts, relational databases, and SQL query optimization.
• Experience administering SQL Server databases, including installation, configuration, maintenance, and performance tuning.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and identify actionable insights.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with a demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

• Familiarity with internationalization practices, including locale neutral formatting, and externalized string resources.
• Experience working with the MS BI stack in Azure Cloud.

Smart Start provides competitive salary, health and dental insurance plans, employer sponsored retirement plan (401K), paid time off, and a fast paced, challenging work environment.

If you are ready to be a part of a hard working IT team in a challenging position, are prepared to develop new skills, have a sense of humor and desire to have fun, please apply online at https://www.smartstartjobs.com/.

Local candidates only please. No agencies.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will posses the skills aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.

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