Lead BI Architect

Company Description

Sirtex Medical is a global healthcare business with offices in Boston, Sydney, Germany, and Singapore, working to improve outcomes in people with cancer. Our current lead product is a targeted radiation therapy for liver cancer called SIR-Spheres® Y-90 resin microspheres. More than 100,000 doses have been supplied to treat patients with liver cancer at more than 1,300 medical centers in over 50 countries. 

At Sirtex, we’re transforming our industry through our leadership with interventional oncology and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. We offer stimulating careers and development, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We will always foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to improve the quality and longevity of patients’ lives by providing innovative interventional oncology solutions. 

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring and bold mission.

Job Description

The BI Lead Architect is responsible for the organization’s BI strategy and initiatives. The BI Lead Architect will manage all aspects of the BI application maintenance and future development lifecycle activities, from project initiation to application development and release management.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive BI strategy aligned with the organization’s overall goals and objectives.  Identify opportunities to utilize data to improve operational efficiency, end-user satisfaction, revenue generation, and other critical business metrics.
• Promote a data-driven culture within the organization by advocating for the value of data-driven decision-making.
• Align business reporting across multiple departments ensuring consistency, accuracy, and unified understanding of the organization’s performance and goals.  There should be common definitions data definitions between Finance, sales, marketing, operations, and quality. A central single source of truth to ensure data consistency.
• Collaborate with various business units and departments to understand their specific data needs and requirements.  Work closely with executive leadership, marketing, sales, finance, operations, and other teams to provide data-driven insights that drive decision-making.
• Drive the development of analytics and reporting capabilities.  Collaborate with data analysts to identify trends, patterns, and insights from data, and then translate these insights into meaningful visualizations and reports for the management.
• Evaluate, select, and implement BI tools, technologies, and platforms that best suit the organization’s needs.  Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry best practices to ensure the BI infrastructure remains cutting-edge and effective.
• Identify and address potential risks related to data quality, analytical methods, and business decisions, working to mitigate any negative impacts.
• Establish data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure data quality, accuracy, security, and compliance.  Oversee data integration, transformation, and maintenance processes to guarantee the availability of reliable and timely information for analysis.
• Keep apprised of new and emerging Analytics/Reporting and Data Warehouse advancements for existing and future toolsets to improve application offerings.
• Responsible to achieve approved budgetary levels for the fiscal year for BI Area, with regards to OPEX and CAPEX budgets as set out by IT leadership.

Deliver work results under minimal supervision and must demonstrate the ability to communicate with the business stakeholders and other technical teams effectively.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent
• 10+ years of experience in the IT industry
• 4+ years of development experience in SAP (HANA, BW suite, or Business Objects).
• Experience managing the development of SAP BW systems and also creating SAP BW data models.
• Provide operational support and troubleshooting assistance on software application-related issues.
• Experience with BI systems and the integration to external systems.
• Data integration and extraction with SAP ECC modules (OTC, SD, APO, EWM, TM).
• Experience with data extraction from S/4HANA is a plus.
• Knowledge of the SAP Business Objects suite (Bobj, Webi) including SAP Analytics Cloud preferred.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with SQL is essential. Ability to write complex SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views for efficient data retrieval and manipulation. Understanding of indexing, query optimization, and database performance tuning.
• Expertise in Microsoft