SENIOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER

The Senior Business Intelligence Developer will work in an exciting, fast-paced, dynamic business environment focused on growth of our business and internal customer satisfaction. The candidate will work closely with line of business teams, other developers and analysts to deliver on projects/initiatives required for the Bank's ongoing business operations, customer opportunities and revenue generation. The candidate will work extensively with Microsoft technologies and will possess significant experience as a developer in financial services. The preferred candidate will work independently and in teams analyzing, designing, and developing business intelligence solutions using coding standards and best practices in close partnership with business teams, architecture, and IT leaders; as well as, mentoring junior staff by providing guidance and design consultation.

Essential Functions
* Adhere to FDIC and FRB data regulatory guidelines for SDLC
* Design, develop, test and deploy ETL solutions, reports, etc. which meet defined requirements using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI, Python, ADF, T-SQL and other languages and tools. In addition, Synapse skills are a positive add.
* Import data from 3rd party sources (Using APIs, SFTP, Flat Files, Websites, etc.) to improve the Bank's ability to market, control, and enhance client and / or banker experience - data imports must align with approved data architectures and standards
* Contribute to requirements refinement, analysis and design for all-sized projects
* Improve Data Environment for our business partners by improving daily job efficiency and success, resolving defects, enhancements, Interfacing with Data Governance to maintain Data Catalog, reviewing metrics for areas of improvement, automating daily data team functions, etc.
* Adhere to best practice development, testing, deployment and operations policies, procedures and guidelines and contribute to the further refinement of those guidelines
* Work with DBAs to determine how to meet service level agreements, and assist in defining SLAs
* Adhere to data quality standards, dat governance standards, coding standards and SDLC
* Contribute to Data Democratization of Northwest by working with Analysts and LOB partners to design and implement complex user stories
* Maintain awareness of current data technology trends and recommend enhancements that will improve the data environment
* Write technical specifications for data integrations, solutions, etc.
* Create and maintain design and data flow diagrams
* Knowledgeable in best practice Data Warehouse design (Star Schema)

Additional Essential Functions
* Ensure compliance with Northwest's policies and procedures, and Federal/State regulations
* Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to the department in order to maximize technology tools and gain efficiency
* Work as part of a team
* Work with on-site equipment

Additional Responsibilities
* Maintain expertise in current technology stacks and best practices to recommend changes that can have positive impact on the enterprise
* Ensure best practice align information security and regulatory requirements in SDLC
* Works with team to complete project requests
* Troubleshoot and resolve daily issues with the perspective of minimizing incidents and developing supporting documentation that may be used by support teams
* Provide mentorship to junior developers
* Develop and execute plans to install new software and custom software changes following Change Management disciplines

Safety and Health for those without supervisory duties
* Abide by the rules of the safety and loss prevention program
* Perform work tasks in a safe manner
* Report any and all injuries to supervisor
* Know what to do in case of an emergency

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education
Bachelor's Degree Bachelors degree required (Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Development / Programming, Sciences, Mathematics, Data Management) Or
Master's Degree Masters degree in any of the following Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Development / Programming, Sciences, Mathematics, Data Management

Work Experience
6 - 8 years 6 - 8 experience as a developer in banking
8 - 12 years 8 - 12 BI/Analytics development experience using Microsoft technology stack (e.g. C#, SQL Server, .NET) or equivalent technologies and toolset, e.g. Java, Python, MySQL, etc.
2 - 6 years 2 - 6 Writing SQL statements for relational database management systems like SQL Server, MYSQL, etc.

General Employee Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
* Ability to establish effective working relationships among team members and participate in solving problems and making decisions
* Ability to present and express ideas and information clearly and concisely in a manner appropriate to the audience, whether oral or written
* Ability to actively listen to what others are saying to achieve understanding, sharing information with others and facilitating the open exchange of ideas and information
* Ability to establish courses of action for self to accomplish specific goals, develop and use tracking systems for monitoring own work progress, and effectively use resources such as time and information
* Ability to make right decisions based on perceptive and analytical processes, practicing good judgment in gray areas

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of object oriented programming using C#, Java or similar contemporary programming languages
Knowledge of relational data model
Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS (tabular model) and equivalent technologies available from other vendors
Ability to write SQL statements for relational database management systems like SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL and using contemporary NOSQL databases like Mongo or Cassandra
Ability to work with large datasets in building pipelines, pipeline architectures and integrated datasets using traditional data integration technologies using APIs, SQL Server SSIS, etc.
Ability to work with application development and SQL on Hadoop
Skill in working with and optimizing existing applications and helping to move them in production
Skill in working with source code repositories like Microsoft Team Foundation Services (TFS), GitHub, SVN or other equivalent tools Experienced in branching, merging, release management, versioning, etc;
Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or any other cloud ecosystem.
Skill in incorporating best practices on information security into development efforts;
Ability to work within a team environment and possessing communication skills necessary to function with a team
Ability to monitor, support, and trouble-shoot applications/systems running on Windows servers and Microsoft SQL servers
Knowledge of development solutions adhering to software development lifecycle and technology standards
Ability to work in agile environments. Exposure to Scrum framework
Knowledge of message queuing technologies such as Kafka, Azure Service Bus, and stream data integration technologies or stream analytics technologies such as Apache Kafka KSQL, Spark Streaming and others
Skill in creating ETL solutions using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) or other equivalent technologies
Skill in developing data warehouses and data marts.
Skill in creating dashboards and reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Power BI.

Licenses and Certifications
Anyone of the following certifications in SSIS, SSRS and Azure (e.g., MS Azure Developer, MS Azure Engineer, MS SQL Server Reporting, MS Azure Data Fundamentals) or a willingness to complete the certifications in the first year of employment Upon Hire