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JN Group

Business Intelligence Analyst

JN Group

  • Kingston and St. Andrew
  • Not disclosed
  • Not disclosed
  • Updated 30/06/2023
  • hr manager

The ideal candidate for the position of Business Intelligence Analyst is designing, engineering, and developing business intelligence (BI) solutions – integrating complex data sets, queries, reports, dashboards, and analyses – to answer business questions.

The Jamaica National Group is seeking to enhance the data analytics, data modelling and business
intelligence capabilities of the organisation. The Group is in the process of streamlining its overall data
and analytics function and to drive the data and analytics capabilities in various processes entity-wide.
Some of the key outputs of this re-engineering include:
  • Enhanced dynamic reporting across the JN Group
  • Increase use of data models to access risk and implement predictive analysis
Data, and its integrity and design into intelligence for the next best action, is a key driver.
The ideal candidate for the position of Business Intelligence Analyst is designing, engineering, and
developing business intelligence (BI) solutions – integrating complex data sets, queries, reports,
dashboards, analyses – to answer business questions. The solutions support critical and ongoing business
operations and must be available anytime on any device – laptop, desktop, mobile. BI Engineers work
closely with product owners to understand business needs and then design and engineer the appropriate
visualizations and analytics to solve the problem. This role also engages with BI Solution Architects and
Data Engineers to assist in solution design efforts including analysis, design, and architecture. BI Engineers
are responsible to support the solutions during operations as needed and build appropriate
enhancements the Stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities 
  • Assists in the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments.
  • Collaborates to ensure application designs utilize appropriate patterns and standards.
  • Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points.
  • Translates business needs into technical specifications to deliver customized reporting and software solutions (BI, Advanced analytics, APIs/Services).
  • Works in tandem with BI/Solution Architects, Data Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Engineers to design efficient visualizations, score cards, dashboards, reports, and recommends ongoing optimization of BI data models, data sets, and data quality.
  • Oversees the end-to-end development and support of the Group’s BI reporting environments for ongoing metrics, reports, dashboards using Power BI, Power App, Power Automate, and other technologies as needed.
  • Designs and developments of proof of concepts and prototype application environments for solving business problems.
  • Creates data visualizations that illustrate data learnings and insights in an understandable and user-friendly manner through software UI / UX design using Power BI and other tools as needed.
  • Adopts and adapts to newly approved technologies, programming languages, tools, and standards for business intelligence.
  • Creates, refines and optimizes dashboards for reporting applications by connecting to one or many of the following: Azure services such as Azure SQL DW (Synapse), Cosmos, Databricks, Delta-Lake to improve and speed up delivery of BI solutions.
  • Documents BI application specifications and produces operational support manuals.
  • Analyzes business needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints, including the ability to estimate work needed.
  • Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points.
  • Assesses functional and nonfunctional requirements and creates designs to meet both business and technical needs.
  • Designs, builds, and maintains automated reporting, dashboards, and analysis to enable teams to self-service data needs.
  • Supports defining technical requirements such as tool or platform selection criteria for the reporting environments.
  • Assists in solution design efforts (i.e. analysis, data warehouse design, architecture) and understands the data warehouse or data marts implementation related to BI.
  • Identifies, designs, and implements internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing BI capabilities.
  • Identifies ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality of data management required for building BI applications and reports.
  • Communicates technical concepts to non-technical audiences both in written and verbal form.
  • Performs peer reviews for other BI engineers’ work.
Required Qualifications and Experience
  • 3+ years’ experience working with BI technologies and tools like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau; proven
    and successful implementations of Microsoft Power BI.
  • 1+ years’ using programing languages such as Java, C#, DAX, MDX, SQL, Python.
  • 1+ years’ BI related experience using ETL, Data warehousing management, Data Mining, Report Designer or development; ability to write complex SQL queries against a variety of data sources.
  • 2+ years’ of experience with Microsoft Power BI.
  • Experience in using Azure cloud architecture, low code power apps, visualization technologies.
  • Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Software Experience
  • Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Powerpoint etc.)
  • Microsoft Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Power Platforms OR Tableau
  • certifications.
  • Azure Certifications.
  • Experience with Git / Azure DevOps.
  • BA/BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent software/services experience.
  • Experience delivering reporting design, visualizations, and solutions through agile software development methodologies.
  • Experience working with sensitive data and ecommerce/distribution/logistics business areas.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Personal Attributes
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex subjects simply and effectively
  • Confident in decision making
  • Strong planning, time management, project management and organizational skills
  • Professionalism, dependability, integrity and works well with a team
  • Leadership and innovative skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Problem solving and analytical skills
  • Self-motivated and proactive
CLOSURE DATE: JULY 12, 2023

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