Senior Principal - Business Intelligence Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Develop solution blueprint and architecture specification for evolving business processes which are primarily focused on business planning and goal setting.
• Work with the other architects to explore specific solutions and define the scope of the project 
• Serve as liaison to the business community, to ensure that its needs are fully understood by the project team. 
• Review prototypes, solution blueprints, and project scope to ensure that the needs of the business are being met. 
• Raise awareness of the solution and assist change management team to develop strategies around improving user adoption. 
• Collaborating with end users to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery.
• Work very closely with development/testing teams to ensure proper implementation.
• Improving and streamlining processes regarding data flow and data quality to improve data accuracy, viability and value. 
• Staying current with industry trends and advising and educating management on their relative importance and impact 
• Lead and align multiple BI Engineers across use cases towards standards and policies.
• The Principle BI Architect must be very experienced in defining common semantic layer, using search capabilities, be the design authority and very familiar with information consumption patterns.
• Define the common semantic layer approach by trying to maximise reuse and interoperability across functions and data consumption tools like PowerBI, Spotfire, ThoughtSpot
• Enable various ways of data consumption in Self-Service based on MS Azure architecture.

You must have

• Balanced mix of technical and business skills with total 16+ years of experience.
• Strong abilities in data analysis, visualizations, problem identification and solving.
• Strategic direction – both  conforming to and helping to define 
• Proficient with BI technologies (Modern BI tools like PowerBI, Thoughtspot etc.) 
• Fully capable of defining and verifying OLAP strategies, frameworks etc 
• Database Design with high volumes and critical performance needs 
• Proficient with SQL, Report forms, consumption devices, usage analysis etc 
• Ability of evaluating design options and provide recommendations.
• Strong Communication and Interpersonal Skills 
• Ability to instill and reinforce a strong customer service and business-oriented ethic in the entire team 
• Ability to balance between data needs and requirements for action 
• Strong management and leadership skills with a proactive participative management style 
• Ability to work well and productively, always projecting a positive outlook in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment.

Nice to have –  

• Enterprise Data Management 
• Requirements planning, formulation and documentation.
• Subject Matter Expertise in BioPharma Manufacturing and Supply chain

Tech Stack - PowerBI, Thoughtspot, Azure Cloud, Databricks, SQL, PL/SQL, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Synapse, Data Lakes, Lakehouses, Any Semantic Layer tools, Data virtualization tools, Power Automate, PowerApps