Senior Business Intelligence Developer / Analyst

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Business Intelligence

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Responsible for the development and support of the Business Intelligence Analytics products and platforms including but not limited to data warehouse, data visualizations and interactive reports. Applies Business Intelligence and Analytics subject matter expertise (data modeling, data discovery, BI product offering development and conceptual insurance acumen) to provide the business support departments with the tools and data representations which allow increasing organizational profit and meeting strategic goals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Continuously develops and maintains an understanding of Business Intelligence technology and architecture, including data warehousing, dimensional modeling, OLAP functionality, reporting tools, and other methods of information delivery.
• Develop & maintains expertise with MSBI tools including: Excel/PowerPivot, SSRS, PerformancePoint, SSIS, & SSAS/BISM.
• Develop database and/or data presentation solutions to deliver information to end-users accurately and efficiently
• Extracts, transforms, & loads data using data management tools and T-SQL.
• Analyze, understand, and document user needs to ensure accurate fulfillment of user story requests from internal business customers.
• Contribute to, and possibly lead, project teams that are developing or modifying highly complex information solutions.
• Administers & maintains the BI Portal, data warehouse, and existing BI solutions.
• Continuously develops expertise in the data and data models within the data warehouse, as well as an understanding of supported business domains.
• May construct data models, data dictionaries, and report glossaries.
• May conduct user interviews and training sessions
• May mentor teammates on BI tools and methods.
• Conducts and may facilitate internal testing and user acceptance testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/experience. Minimum of 5 years work experience.
• Strong understanding of BI concepts & tools.
• Demonstrated ability to write SQL/TSQL queries to retrieve/modify data
• Previous experience with BIDS/MSBI Stack.
• Proven ability to work with less senior staff for guidance in solution delivery
• Ability to abstract a concept into a series of lifecycle components and events.
• Significant experience developing physical dimensional models, OLAP processes or data visualizations or significant experience in data modeling, data discovery and the application of data to sol