Roles/Responsibilities:
The Contractor is expected to perform the following tasks including but not limited to:
- Work with data architects business analysts Extract Transformation Load (ETL) developers and business stakeholders to design develop and deliver high standard Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. This can include but is not limited to enterprise analytical reports dashboards data warehouse data lake data marts and ETL processes.
- Integrate Generative AI capabilities with BI&DW platform to automatically generate business insights and recommendations reducing the need for manual data analysis and interpretation leading to faster decision-making.
- Leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide predictive business insights to anticipate future trends and opportunities.
- Understand user expectations and create functional design documents and solutions based on the business requirements. Drive requirements through cross functional collaborations and connect dots from different requirements sources.
- Analyze product performance identify key metrics and build analytical reports and dashboards to meet business needs implement the high priority initiatives and instill discipline and accountability into the product development process.
- Lead and conduct functional testing of the Business Intelligence solutions thereby responsible for certification of product release before user acceptance. Encourage best practices and apply them in the team - responsible for functional product quality.
- Build queries and large quantities of data by using Structural Query Language (SQL) or other data and statistical tools as well as reporting tools such as Tableau Power BI or Looker etc.
- Execute deep dives into available data sets to provide insight on product quality performance and ensure a good user experience in support reports and dashboards.
- Perform ongoing monitoring and optimization of reports and analytical solutions.
- Review and provide any potential revisions to deliverables/documents to include conceptual/logical/physical data models data dictionaries data ETL plans etc.
- Review and recommend any potential revisions to data related processes to include data integration data conversion data replication data migration etc.
- Communicate timely to resolve technical issues and risks.
- Develop user documentation and a variety of visual representation of data analysis and ensure consistency and accuracy of data and analysis provided.
- Provide written weekly and/or monthly reports detailing various technical findings that may impact schedules resources and activities etc
Mandatory Skills:
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience in using Generative AI to successfully deliver data analytics solutions.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience of designing and developing data analytics and Business Intelligence dashboards with Microsoft (MS) Power BI.
- At least 5 years of experience of creating Structural Query Language (SQL) queries optimizing SQL query performance and modifying SQL elements such as procedure functions and views with a solid understanding of database principles.
- At least 3 years of experience of developing data solutions with Snowflake or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Redshift data warehouses
Desirable Skills:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Information Technology or similar field of study. CalSTRS reserves the right to request a copy of the degree.
- At least five years of experience with Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle.
- At least five years of experience with MS Power BI Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to create queries measures and data models.
- At least 3 years of experience in State agency or Financials or Investment portfolios or other regulated industry highly preferred.
- Ability to use business knowledge and expertise to build analytical data models and reports that can serve business users.
- The proposed project person will be able to adhere to the hybrid working model by working on-site 2-3 days per week at CalSTRS Headquarters West Sacramento CA. If no provide a short explanation. (no points)