Data Integration Engineer, NA

DLF North Americais currently recruiting for a Data Integration Engineer NA for our operations located in La Crosse Wisconsin.

DLF Group is the world leader in the development and sale of high-quality grass seeds for the agricultural forage and (professional) lawn markets. By continuously developing new innovative varieties and products and with a strong focus on quality and reliability DLF Group offers demonstrable value to the business of their customers and other relationships.

DLF North America SBU is one of our four Strategic Business Units. DLF employees are characterized by a high level of competency passion and commitment. In everything we do we act with respect trust and integrity.

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About the job

The Data Integration Engineer (North America) is responsible for ensuring that business leaders and teams have access to accurate timely and actionable reporting to support operational and strategic decisionmaking. The role translates business information needs into effective reporting and analytics solutions leveraging ERP and enterprise data platforms while balancing accessibility data integrity security and confidentiality.

Working closely with business stakeholders super users and senior leaders across North America the role develops a deep understanding of business processes and performance drivers and provides fitforpurpose reports and dashboards that enable insight and accountability. The position plays a key role in supporting ERPbased reporting including Navision and connected applications ensuring required data is captured governed and presented in a meaningful way.

Operating within a global BI model the Data Integration Engineer collaborates with global BI teams IT partners and external vendors to deliver standardized reporting where possible while accommodating legitimate regional and functional requirements. The role contributes to the ongoing enhancement of reporting platforms models and governance frameworks helping to improve consistency scalability and longterm sustainability of the BI environment.

Through strong stakeholder engagement analytical expertise and continuous improvement the Data Integration Engineer helps the organization make better use of its data assets reduce manual reporting effort and strengthen datadriven decisionmaking across the business.

Job Responsibilities:

Advise the Business on Accessing Information from Navision

• Build deep expertise in the Navision reporting stack and adjacent tools: Navision native reporting TimeXtender Cubes Azure Services Tabular Models Power BIincluding capabilities limitations and appropriate use.
• Engage business owners champions and key users to gather/clarify reporting needschallenging assumptions to ensure true purpose metrics and decisions are understood.
• Modify create and provision access to reports and dashboards to meet validated needs.
• Partner with global BI and internal/external development partners to design and deliver reporting solutions.
• Develop communicate and track the workplan for reporting delivery with the Navision project and global BI teams.
• Test reports with end users; manage UAT and secure formal signoff.

Deliver BI Reporting Requirements in Navision & Connected Ecosystems

• Translate business requirements into scalable reusable semantic models datasets and report designs (prioritizing standardization).
• Directly build reports/dashboards and coordinate partner development where appropriate.
• Ensure data definitions KPIs and hierarchies are consistent across regions and functions.
• Maintain report catalogs documentation and data lineage.

Contribute to the Global Azure Services Tabular Models

• Participate in the global BI network identifying highpriority global opportunities.
• Represent NA requirements in the global roadmap; contribute to global model design and enhancements.
• Help shape and uphold global BI governance balancing data integrity security and standardization with legitimate local customization.

ERP & Application Environments (as they relate to BI/Reporting)

• Coordinate with infrastructure/application teams to maintain dev/test/prod environments for BI/reporting (e.g. Power BI gateways Tabular models TimeXtender).
• Monitor and align reporting dependencies and integrations across Nicelabel Zetadocs Continia Anaplan and CRM to ensure data integrity and seamless environment transitions.
• Ensure change control versioning and release practices support reliable BI delivery.

Performance Support & Enablement (BI Scope)

• Track and optimize dataset refreshes query performance and model design to ensure reliable performant reporting.
• Triage and manage thirdlevel BI/reporting issues; convert userreported problems into actionable tasks for BI infrastructure and the global helpdesk.
• Ensure support models runbooks and documentation enable efficient global support.

Continuous Improvement & Architecture

• Engage stakeholders to document evolving reporting needs; anticipate changes driven by process or system evolution.
• Translate business needs into costeffective scalable reporting architectures that support operational excellence and strategic decisionmaking.
• Maintain and refine BI architecture documentation standards and patterns.
• Scan industry practices and tooling; recommend pilots that improve performance security governance or integration.
• Contribute to capacity planning (data volumes refresh windows concurrency) to scale with growth.

Monitoring Helpdesk & Vendor Oversight (BI Focus)

• Ensure monitoring and alerting are in place for BI assets (refresh failures gateway health model performance).
• Equip the Global Service Desk with knowledge articles SLAs and escalation paths for BI incidents.
• Manage relationships with BI/reporting vendors and partners; oversee SOWs effort estimates and value delivery.

Performs other related duties as required or requested.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting IT or related field required.
• Minimum 5 years in management accounting BI or analytics roles with proven delivery of reporting and analytical solutions.

• Strong ability to understand business operations and translate needs into reporting solutions.
• Excellent analytical stakeholder engagement and communication skills (technical and nontechnical audiences).
• Detailed knowledge of financial/ERP systems spreadsheets and databases.
• Structured disciplined approach to problemsolving and lightweight project management.
• Experience sourcing modeling and analyzing data to generate actionable insights; ability to present succinctly.
• Proficiency with BI delivery tools (report authoring modeling governance).
• Experience with continuous improvement methods in supply chain and business processes.
• Ability to partner with infrastructure/app teams on environments monitoring and support (without owning infrastructure).

Preferred

• Expertise with Microsoft BI Stack: Power BI Excel SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS/Tabular) Power BI Service and TimeXtender Cubes.
• Working knowledge of SQL DAX (or similar) for data discovery and analytics.
• Familiarity with integrations and reporting across Navision Nicelabel Zetadocs Continia Anaplan and CRM.
• Knowledge of / empathy with the agricultural industry supply chains and inventory.
• Relevant certifications (e.g. Microsoft / Azure).

Work Environment & Travel Requirements:

• Hybrid office environment.
• Travel up to 15% including local and international as required.

Compensation and Benefits:

DLF USA Inc. offers a compensation plan that includes a base salary benefits that include medical dental vision life and disability insurance retirement savings plan with company contribution paid holidays vacation and personal days. Compensation will be based on experience.

Why work for DLF

We do good things! Turf grass is more than just a pretty sight it helps fight climate change by trapping carbon and preventing soil erosion making it a vital ally in preserving the environment. Grass acts as a natural filter purifying water and improving air quality. Perennial forage grass and legume crops also provide essential habitats for diverse wildlife showcasing the crucial role of supporting biodiversity and sustaining ecosystems. Grass alfalfa and clover feed animals and produce oxygen. Just a few reasons.... and many more! Check us out!

Ready to make an impact We invite you to come and grow with us!

If you meet the above qualifications and are interested in joining our DLF team please apply to the role on our careers page. . Please upload your resume and a cover letter highlighting your talent and why you fit this role.

DLF USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Accommodations for job applicants with disabilities will be provided upon request during the recruitment assessment selection and placement process. Alternate format available upon request.