Key Responsibilities
Business Collaboration
- Work closely with business and technical groups to analyze needs, make recommendations, and design solutions that are reliable, flexible, scalable, and cost‑
- Drive new technology assessments and adoption to deliver business value.
Data Engineering & Integration
- Design, build, and run ETL pipelines (SSIS/T‑SQL) to ingest, transform, and deliver data from enterprise systems.
- Design and deliver data integration solutions between internal applications and external partner platforms (REST APIs, SFTP and file exchanges, change data capture (CDC)).
- Engineer data marts and staging layers using dimensional modeling (star/snowflake, conformed dimensions) to feed semantic models.
- Drive data quality, including data quality rules, data cleansing, and exception handling.
- Use Azure DevOps for version control, pull‑request reviews, work‑item tracking, and CI/CD of database/SSIS/SSAS artifacts.
Semantic Modeling with SSAS
- Design, build, and maintain SSAS semantic models—Multidimensional cubes and Tabular models, MDX/DAX.
- Implement partitions, aggregations, and processing strategies (full/incremental) and caching to achieve consistent performance.
BI Delivery
- Deliver Excel solutions over SSAS using PivotTables/PivotCharts and cube functions; manage connections/parameters and refresh governance.
- Publish, version, and distribute Excel templates in Microsoft 365/SharePoint.
- Deliver SSRS and Power BI solutions as needed
Support, Performance & Reliability
- Own run health for pipelines and refreshes: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post‑incident RCAs with corrective/preventive actions.
- Partner with Infrastructure/DBA to tune SQL Server (indexing, partitioning, Query Store), plan capacity, and execute backup/restore and DR.
- Performance optimization (scheduling, dependencies, concurrency) for on‑time data availability and predictable runtimes.
- Assist contract DBA in database administration including general maintenance, security management and auditing, upgrades, and patch management.
Security, Compliance & Risk Management
- Implement secure‑by‑design practices (least‑privilege access, secrets management, encryption) across pipelines, databases, and SSAS.
- Collaborate with Cybersecurity on remediation and follow incident‑response practices.
Data Governance & Documentation
- Keep technical specs, data dictionaries, semantic definitions, refresh cadences, and owners current.
- Maintain comprehensive lineage and dependency mapping across pipelines, SSAS models, and downstream Excel/reporting assets.
- Standardize naming conventions, folder structures, and modeling patterns to drive consistency and reuse.
Leadership, Mentoring & Cross‑Team Support
- Provide guidance to application development teams on database design and performance optimization of application databases.
- Provide project leadership through scoping, estimating, design reviews, and code reviews; mentor teammates in T‑SQL, SSIS, MDX/DAX, and operational best practices.
Qualifications
Required
- Associates or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Data Management, or related field; or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years in data‑warehouse development, data integration, and/or BI delivery using Microsoft technology stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS).
- Dimensional modeling (star/snowflake) and delivery of conformed data marts used across business domains.
- Hands‑on SQL Server and T‑SQL expertise.
- Multidimensional and tabular SSAS experience.
- Excel‑centric BI over SSAS.
- Proven data integration work with internal systems and external.
- Operational mindset: monitoring/alerting, troubleshooting, incident response, and performance tuning.
- Understanding of secure‑by‑design practices and data handling aligned to internal cybersecurity expectations.
- Experience documenting requirements into technical specifications and data contracts, with clear lineage and ownership.
- Practical planning skills: estimating, sequencing, and incremental delivery using agile methodology.
- Effective communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders; collaborative approach with Infrastructure/DBA teams.
Preferred
- Airline industry experience.
- Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.
- SQL Server administration.
- Formal training in data modeling (3NF and Star Schema).
- Experience with predictive/advanced analytics.
- Understanding of network infrastructure, storage, and virtualization as they pertain to BI/data platforms.
- Scripting for ETL/automation in .NET (C) and/or Python.