Sr IT Business Intelligence Engineer

Academy Sports + Outdoors - Katy, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Katy, TX

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Sr IT Business Intelligence Engineer at Academy Sports + Outdoors is responsible for designing and developing business intelligence capabilities, including reporting and analytical solutions. This role involves collaborating with business users to identify data management needs, providing technical guidance, and mentoring BI engineers. The position requires extensive experience in business intelligence and data warehousing, particularly with MicroStrategy and SQL, to support the analytic needs of the business.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop overall BI capabilities, including reporting and analytical solutions.
• Work with the data architect to ensure that logical and physical data models support the analytic needs of the business.
• Provide BI technical guidance to projects and teams, ensuring that new initiatives enable effective data reporting.
• Collaborate with key business users to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery.
• Train, develop and mentor BI Engineers, and act as the technology expert for BI function towards the entire software development life cycle as appropriate.
• Design, develop and architect MicroStrategy Schema Objects & Application objects.
• Develop Mobile BI applications and dashboards.
• Provide technical knowledge and business support to the BI team.
• Ensure effective communication of user requirements.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure that all solutions are aligned to pre-defined architectural specifications; identify/troubleshoot application code-related issues; and review and provide feedback to the final user documentation.
• Act as a technology subject matter expert by proactively acquiring knowledge as it relates to technology changes and advancements, conduct POC's, develop prototypes and reusable frameworks.
• Develop a thorough understanding of Academy policies, procedures and safety rules.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or other related Engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 7+ years' experience developing within a Business Intelligence function using MicroStrategy BI technology stack.
• 7+ years' experience in the design and building of enterprise data warehouses and Business Intelligence solutions.
• 7+ years' experience working with end users to gather requirements and build technical solutions from concept to implementation.
• Practical Experience with Data Warehouse concepts including Star Schema & snowflake.
• Familiarity with development methodologies like Agile; Scrum is a plus.
• Expert knowledge of data modeling, SQL, BI and Enterprise Reporting.
• Expert knowledge of at least one Datawarehouse platform such as Netezza, Teradata etc.
• Familiarity with any of the cloud environment in the context of Datawarehouse platforms such as Big Query, Snowflake etc.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong Microsoft Office program experience, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interface effectively with individuals at various levels, both internal and external.
• Analytical, with strong problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to remain organized, pay strict attention to detail, and meet critical deadlines within a high volume, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent analytic skills with the ability to use key tools to dive deep and provide analysis consistently on performance metrics.