Director - Business Intelligence

Company Overview

Berkley Networks Corporation is a venture focused on creating next generation sharing tools for retailers’ customers across online, social and mobile platforms. Our technology is a powerful consumer engagement technology that allows consumers to create a digital “bookmark” to save and instantly share items while shopping on an e-commerce site or offline by texting from any mobile device. Information about items can be shared with any Facebook friend, contact or network and retrieved at anytime, either online, on the go via SMS or our iPhone app.

Opportunity

Berkley Networks is embarking on a strategic project to build a next generation Business Intelligence Platform that will serve internal and external data user. A key component of this project is a new Reporting and Analytics Tool and a new underlying data warehouse data model that will support it. The new BI tool architecture will be constructed on best-of-breed tools and be designed with the following in mind: self-service reporting and analysis, flexibility, scalability and data security.

This new senior lead position will play a key role in the selection of a new BI tool, the design of the new BI architecture, the phased implementation planning and delivery.  This position is ideal for a candidate who has a good mix of senior level communication and planning experience combined with a strong desire to be involved in hands-on design and ongoing execution.

Responsibilities  

• Understand the current DW architecture


• Lead the evaluation and selection of a new Business Intelligence Tool for the next generation DW environment


• Facilitate the gathering, consolidation and prioritization of business requirements


• Define a roadmap/design document for the new business intelligence architecture and tools that ensures self-service, flexibility, scalability and security.


• Develop an architecture standards document for future code design, team based-development and code release management in the new architecture.


• Lead data modeling activities to adjust the current DW model to support new requirements and eliminate past constraints on flexibility.


• Work with development team to define a phased migration path from the old report base to new architecture


• Validate the scope and requirements for the incremental releases of some existing reports and a planned retirement of many legacy reports in favor of a self-service approach.


• Serve as primary thought leader on the business intelligence tool (yet to be selected) and its capabilities.


• Work with the Lead Architect and DBA to ensure that the next generation architecture is meeting the data integration requirements for downstream reporting by both internal users as well as external partners


• Work with business development team to understand evolving market place requirements for reporting, analytics and data mining to ensure that the phased business intelligence rollout is aligned to meet those requirements.


• Assume hands-on leadership through requirements, design, testing and implementation rollout.

Requirements  

• 10+ years of full life-cycle experience in Data Warehousing and business intelligence


• A successful track record of delivering complex business intelligence projects on time.


• Strong knowledge of performance tuning tactics appropriate at each layer within a business intelligence/data-warehouse environment


• Experience with determining requirements, evaluating vendors, and playing a key role in a BI tool selection project effort


• Significant experience providing technical design review, development plan critique, test plan/results review


• Deep experience with one or more best-of-breed BI tools is required (Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy) including setup, configuration, design best practices, performance optimization, team based development approaches.


• Strong hands on data modeling and demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into a data model structure


• Knowledge of data profiling technologies, techniques and approaches for utilizing as part of upfront analysis


• Marketplace awareness of evolving BI topics such as data mining, service-oriented data integrations, master data management and near real-time operational reporting approaches


• Retail, eCommerce, Supply Chain Management experience preferred, but not required


• Experience estimating BI development work and creating a matching resource plan.


• Strong leadership, communication and collaboration skills


• BA/BS in Computer Science, Business or related field

• Compensation:  $125k + Bonus


• Location:   New York City based

Absolutely NO 3rd Parties, Agencies or Telecommuting