Management Science Associates Hiring For Software Engineer II (Business Intelligence) at Pittsburgh, PA Full Time

Overview:  Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA) is a diversified information management company that for over half a century has given market leaders the competitive edge in data management, analytics and technology.  We are currently seeking an intermediate level BI Analyst/ Software Engineer (fulltime position) who can work both individually and in a team environment in one of the most interesting business domains.  The successful candidate will be responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of high performance BI solutions, and must be able to formulate creative solutions to difficult problems.  Engineering skills, judgment, and experience will be applied to ensure product innovation, quality, and that project schedules are met.  The selected candidate must be able to thrive in a fast paced, team oriented, product development environment. This position will provide vision, leadership and strategy as well as actively participate in the design, implementation and subsequent operations.  UI Design and web development skills will be a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable web-based business intelligence solutions that empower our clients to make informed decisions
• Apply standard structures and data management practices to produce robust and effective applications and optimize complex query results (performance and flexibility)
• Prepare, map, transform and validate supply chain data
• Present data through effective and configurable visualizations
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Data Quality Analysts to continually improve analytics service offerings, analyzing business processes and data sources
• Support new and existing programs and modules from both debugging and enhancement perspectives
• Write technical documents as part of established methodology
• Analyze business systems requirements and design technical solutions based on those requirements
• Design, architect, optimize, and refactor code to maximize performance
• Write functional and technical specification documents and collaborate with systems analysts and product owner to ensure solutions align with business objectives
• Constantly strive to reduce our time to market (new customer implementations and enhanced systems)
• Routinely work against very large data volumes and/or complex datasets; conduct performance tuning related to large volume processing and querying
• Contribute to agile practices by participating as an active Scrum team member

Required Skills

• Four-year degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Computer/Electrical Engineering
• Minimum five years of experience in systems analysis and/or programming, addressing unique issues of architecture and data management
• Experience with SQL and RDBMS technologies
• Hands-on experience with one or more BI Reporting Tools (Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, MicroStragegy etc)
• Must enjoy the challenges and rewards of an interactive small group setting with a growing client base
• Demonstrated knowledge of SQL and RDBMS technologies
• Demonstrated knowledge and familiarity with one or more BI Reporting Tools (Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, MicroStragegy etc)
• Software development and data analysis skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Experience with version control, continuous integration and delivery tools