IT Senior Architect, Business Intelligence & Analytics

Company Description

At Brightspeed, we are reimagining how people live, work, play and connect by providing fast, reliable internet connections and an awesome customer experience in twenty states throughout the Midwest and South.

Backed by funds managed by Apollo Global Management, our vision is to accelerate the upgrade of copper to fiber optic technologies, bringing faster and more reliable internet service to many rural markets traditionally underserved by broadband providers, while delivering best-in-class customer experience.  

Be a part of the team that will make this vision a reality….designing and building a world class fiber network and creating a customer experience second to none.

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Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an accomplished business intelligence architect to join our growing team and help lead our business intelligence space in corporate systems. If you are a seasoned architect with experience hands-on in building, leading and taking enterprise telecom data from various domains and creating action-oriented stories of business insights, this is the right opportunity for you! In this role, you will be challenged with the opportunity to apply your business acumen in a start-up setting and help analyze, predict and prescribe every aspect of the customer/employee experience from revenue, profitability, finance, supply chain, HR and payroll perspective.
 
We are looking for entrepreneurs at heart, who can help re-imagine customer journeys and business processes with the power of data.

As IT Senior Architect, Business Intelligence & Analytics, your responsibilities will include:

• Develop reporting and analytics strategies and roadmaps, collaborate with stakeholders, align and execute the strategies with measurable business outcomes
• Develop and implement innovative analytics solutions to support the corporate systems footprint (Finance, Tax, Accounting, Billing, Bill-to-cash, Record-to-report, Audit, HR, Payroll and Supply Chain) using technologies such as SAP SAC, DI, Google BQ, Looker, PowerBI, etc. in a multi-cloud setting
• Ability to deliver analytics projects end-to-end, alone or leading a team
• Develop and maintain influential relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors
• Ensure compliance with industry best practices, security protocols, regulatory requirements, and internal controls
• Create advanced analytics architectures, designs and development with AI-first approach
• Work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, delivering results quickly and iteratively using Agile and DataSecOps
• Lead teams of cross functional teams to deliver business insights across customer/employee journeys and process flows
• Quickly understand business requirements and operational needs to create business intelligence approaches to enable business transformation
• Manage communications across business and technology teams to deliver world class analytics and business insights
• Assess project risk, provide realistic timelines, proactively act, and ensure robust development performance and stability in production
• Communicate project/program progress, status, risks, issues etc. to management and stakeholders. This includes providing status on a recurring basis as well as for special circumstances

Qualifications

WHAT IT TAKES TO CATCH OUR EYE:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or relevant field
• 10+ years of experience in creating and leading BI solutions
• 5+ of Analytics development experience using SQL and Python
• Experience with Google BQ and SAP SAC 
• 2+ years of experience delivering predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions
• Strong knowledge and experience in Corporate systems domains from analytics perspective (Finance, Tax, Accounting, Billing, Bill-to-cash, Record-to-report, Audit, HR, Payroll and Supply Chain) using technologies such as SAP SAC, DI, Google BQ, Looker, PowerBI, etc. in a multi-cloud setting
• Strong experience in scripting with SQL, Python, LookML, and/or R
• Deep understanding of data warehousing concepts, database designs and data architecture
• Experience with big data technologies and advanced data analytics
• Extensive experience in vendor management across multiple agreements and arrangements for both software and service support
• Ability to understand and explain complex technical information to non-technical audience
• Collaborative, team builder with strong communication/ interpersonal skills, ability to negotiate, often at higher levels
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

BONUS POINTS FOR:

• Master’s degree in