COMPANY OVERVIEW
Bridge International Academies is transforming education by attacking one of the emerging world’s biggest problems: inadequate access to and quality of education for the children of families living on less than $2/day. As of May 2014, Bridge is operating over 300 academies in Kenya with almost 100,000 pupils, and has aggressive global expansion planned for 2014 and beyond.
Bridge International Academies offers a tremendous opportunity to grow with one of the world’s most exciting, ambitious, and socially conscious companies, with roles available across a number of competencies and geographies. We look forward to getting to know you!
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are looking for a full time Business Intelligence Manager to join our technology team that powers and improves efficiency to enhance our competitive advantage.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The key responsibilities will include:
- Drive design, construction and management of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions.
- Design and implement reporting applications including (but not limited to) BI dashboards, portals, reporting cubes and static reports.
- Analyse and improve corporate data flows, with a focus on efficiency and scalability.
- Define technical standards and guidelines that pertain to data and information use, security, access and governance.
- Identify data quality issues and support the data governance initiative by participating in necessary activities including data profiling.
- Ensure a focus on information/data quality by developing and publishing enterprise data standards such as a common business vocabulary, naming conventions, data standards, transformation rules and related enterprise consistency specifications.
- Ensure the development and documentation of business and technical meta data.
- Manage our data reporting team.
EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
- You have a BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field
- You have at least 6 years of experience in a highly scalability, highly available commercial development environment.
- You have extensive experience in developing Business Intelligence solutions (reports, dashboards, scorecards) in a data warehousing environment.
- You are extremely knowledgeable in the design, construction and management of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions.
- You have good grounding in development of best practice skills, including: requirements definition; analysis; design; testing; implementation; documentation and support.
- You have experience in the design and implementation of ETL processes.
- You have a proven ability to perform detailed data analysis (i.e. determine the structure, content, and quality of the data through examination of source systems and data samples).
- You have advanced knowledge of and OLAP technologies and dimensional modelling, including applicability to various reporting problems.
- You are comfortable recommending and advocating for enterprise architectural best practices for high-availability, scalability and reliability implementations.
- You have strong familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure environments, particularly Amazon EC2/EBS.
- You have expert knowledge of ERP systems and data flow. Microsoft Navision is a strong plus.
- You are an experienced and capable technical manager.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- You are comfortable with being on-call for a globally distributed development and production environment.
- You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
Examples of our Software Needs
The following are examples some of the software projects that are currently under development or consideration:
- Automated Student Payment Information System – manages billing, automatically updates database with data from banks and mobile payment systems, provides tools for operator to correct and assign payments, and uses SMS interface to send coded updates to Schools, and receive interactive SMS queries and remote error correction.
- Customized integrated financial system – taking customizable financial package and integrating with payment information system, reporting tools, and developing additional tools for automated budget tracking, and SMS-based payment requests and school payroll.
- Data Management and Dashboard/Reporting Tools for HQ staff to support schools – we are developing tools that collect key performance data and provide dashboards/reports to allow support teams to monitor progress of our schools.
- Android Mobile Phone App - We have ported many of our paper-based processes at our schools to a mobile phone app on the Android platform to streamline school operations.
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