Lead Technical Specialist - OBIEE

About the Role

Base Location: Havant, Reading and Perth

Salary: £69,105 - £81,406 and a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

SSE IT is looking for a highly self-motivated individual to fill the role of Corporate Solutions BI Lead Technical Specialist. The successful applicant will be working as part of the Corporate Solutions Delivery and Support Group within the Corporate Directorate. This is a challenging role, and we are looking for an enthusiastic, committed, and versatile individual. Reporting to the Corporate Solutions BI Team Leader you will be supporting and developing the OBIEE suite of products within the Solution Delivery Corporate BI team. You will manage, support and enhance the ETL batch schedules and develop and maintain the ETL processes, repository, reports and user dashboards.

This team is responsible for the development and support of the Corporate Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE 12g) implementation. The primary data source is SSE’s eBusiness Suite (v12.2.9) instance named Harmony. The platform surfaces operational reporting in the key areas of Payroll, HR, LMS, OTL, Finance (AP, GL, SLA, FA) and Order Management/Logistics.

You will

• Lead on understanding ongoing and future business data and reporting needs, with an ability to grasp this from the business process, functional and technical side of systems.
• Support and deputise for the BI Team Lead across team governance and release management activities.
• Provide input into, support and lead the release and change management processes required to implement technical changes to our core applications.
• Provide leadership and guidance in support of other functional and technical specialists around design, development and delivery.
• Perform a lead role in any coaching, mentoring and KT processes both as provider or recipient. 

You have

• Strong understanding of IT change management processes – across raising, managing and releasing change effectively. Exposure to change repository tooling advantageous.
• Strong data visualization experience – comfortable presenting visual representations of data.
• Strong OBIEE 12c development experience and preferably detailed exposure to Oracle eBusiness Suite modules (preferably some of the key areas listed).
• Strong ETL / SQL development experience as well as tuning techniques. Any experience of PLSQL would be an advantage.
• Any experience of other Oracle reporting technologies would be advantageous, across XML/ BI Publisher, Fusion, OTBI, OAS/OAC.

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