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Ref 05-182: Business Intelligence (BI) Consultants – multiple positions

Title: Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant
Skills
: Microstrategy, Informatica, COGNOS (preferred)
Location: Washington, DC/Baltimore area
Tax term: Fulltime/W2/Independent
Pay rate: Very attractive
Length: Multi-year

Minimum Qualifications: The candidate posses the following knowledge, skills and experience at a minimum:

  • 2+ years experience ETL design and development with Informatica version 6.x or higher.
  • 3+ years experience in DSS and OLAP report development using Microstrategy version 7.x
  • Database Skills
    . Advanced SQL skills on all DB platforms
    . Experience with DB2 V 7 on the mainframe
    . Experience with Oracle 9i on Solaris
  • Informatica Skills
    . Development of advanced mapping and transformations using Informatica Designer.
    . Creating and managing sessions using Informatica Server Manager
    . Migration of mappings and transformations from one environment to another.
    . General administration of Informatica environment.
  • Business requirements analysis and documentation
  • Business metrics definition and development
  • Source to target analysis and mapping design
  • Expertise in Dimensional Modeling techniques
  • Business requirements analysis and documentation
  • Source to target analysis and mapping design
  • Experience leading and conducting technical reviews of business intelligence applications and models.
  • Experience participating as a subject matter and technical expert in technical reviews of business intelligence applications and models.
  • Experience creating and providing design artifacts for technical reviews of business intelligence applications and models.

The following are desired candidate knowledge, skills and experience:

  • 3+ years experience in DSS and OLAP report development using Cognos Impromptu and Cognos PowerPlay.
  • Mainframe skills
    . TSO, ISPF, QMF, Utilities
    . COBOL skills (for DB2 stored procedures, extracts, etc)
  • Unix Skills
    . Unix shell and perl scripting
    . Oracle PL/SQL skills (Oracle stored procedures)
    . Cron
  • Experience with the CA AllFusion data modeling tool.
  • Experience with the Microsoft Visio modeling tool.
  • Experience with the Popkin System Architect tool.
  • Experience with the CA AllFusion Model Manager tool.
  • Experience with the Informatica Super Glue tool.