We’re looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Platform Administrator to manage and maintain their business intelligence platforms and the operational processes that execute on those platforms who’ll be responsible for managing and maintaining the SAS, Power BI and ThoughtSpot environments within the organisation, ensuring that platforms and content on those platforms is available to the business in line with agreed SLAs.
The client is an award-winning insurance and technology organisation, delivering market-leading motor insurance, underwriting, distribution, finance, technology and legal services.
As the Senior Business Intelligence Platform Administrator, you’ll be the technical expert in SAS platform administration. You’ll mentor your colleagues in best practices and will take charge of ensuring our platforms are safe, secure, and performing at their best.
Core skills to succeed in the role:
- SAS Platform Management : It is essential that you possess in-depth expertise in SAS Platform Management and have experience tuning, automating and troubleshooting.
- SAS and Power BI Technical skills: You’ll showcase your proven experience of using Power BI and ThoughtSpot (PowerBI Not Essential)
- Coaching and Mentoring : You’ll be passionate about coaching others in best practices and ensuring platforms are safe and secure.
What’s involved:
- Responsible for all aspects of BI platform administration, including the definition of structures and processes for security, content, capacity, release and performance management on the environments.
- Responsible for designing and executing controls on the BI Platforms to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability of timely and accurate information in reports for management decision-making purposes.
- Timely resolution of issues, communicating effectively with all recipients of the service, and engaging in root cause analysis and incident management.
- Proactively monitor the health and performance of BI Platforms by overseeing monitoring mechanisms and be relentless in improving system performance by tuning the environments for optimal performance and platform stability.
- Communicate with stakeholders to understand and meet their BI-related needs and collaborate with other IT teams to integrate BI tools with other systems and platforms.
Experience & knowledge
- Extensive hands-on platform administration experience of large-scale business wide SAS and/or Power BI platforms (00’s of users), in on premise and cloud environments
- Experience of tuning, optimising and automating BI and Reporting processes.
- Experience coaching and mentoring colleagues.
- Problem solving and Incident Management – Experience troubleshooting and fixing issues in existing reports, conducting the root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures to avoid future instances.
- Stakeholder management – Experience managing stakeholders of various levels, proactively keeping them updated on multiple requests with a fast-moving set of changing priorities.
Skills
- Excellent PowerBI and SAS skills (SQL & ThoughtSpot advantageous).
- Able to follow, deliver changes to improve, standards and designs, ensuring their own work, and work of others, is of high quality.
- Able to operate with minimal brief, and a fast-moving set of changing priorities.
- Ability to bring together multiple different views and perspectives to create agreed designs and solutions.
