SME Jaspersoft Opportunity in Fort Washington PA!

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My client has a need for someone who has recent experience in Jaspersoft and is local or open to relocating to the Fort Washington, PA area.

 

This role is primarily responsible for developing and maintaining Business Intelligence (BI) reporting and analytical solutions using Jaspersoft (iReport Designer, JasperReports Server and Studio) product. This includes creation of dashboards, standard reports, custom reports, and trouble-shooting reporting problems. The analyst is responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, and support of enterprise-wide data analytics and reporting solutions. The secondary responsibility is to provide technical leadership in database design, data querying and data transformation. Successful candidates must demonstrate a clear understanding of BI, relational databases, SQL, and related technologies.

 

Job Functions and Responsibilities 

• Perform detailed data analysis, validation, and identify data quality issues. Pro-actively recommend solutions that could prevent non-scalable reports. Participate in testing for development activities. Identify automation and process improvement ideas and implement

• Design reports for performance, data quality, and simplicity/maintainability, and articulate trade-offs as appropriate. Tune Jaspersoft queries to run efficiently in a large data volume environment. Support and manage special projects, ad-hoc management reporting requests, testing, and issue resolution.

• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing report procedures and systems and develop strategies for enhancing or leveraging these processes and systems. Develop a strong understanding of the source systems that pass data to the reporting systems, and the relationships within the data.

• Work directly with decision makers and end users to understand, define, and document current and possible future reporting goals, needs, and requirements. Research and recommend key performance indicators in order to provide better intelligence in reporting. Maintain documentation and tracking for reporting requests. Write and maintain processes related to all standard reporting  Responsible for mock up, development, implementation, and training of internal customer requested reporting needs

• Develop, coordinate distribution, and maintain reporting templates for reporting teams and user community

• Retrieve and utilize information from multiple RDBMS systems and other data sources and, when necessary, recommend and manage the development and implementation of ETL processes required to create appropriate reporting solution.

• Use Jaspersoft to develop dynamic dashboards, grids, graphs, scorecards, reports and domains. Design, develop, publish, and maintain management dashboards  Convert existing reports form Business Objects 14+ to Jaspersoft 6+

• Communicate clearly and effectively with business users and technical teams through all phases of the development lifecycle  Strong interpersonal/customer service skills. Ability to communicate effectively with others; demonstrated collaborative skills

• Able to prioritize work and multi-task in a fast paced setting, willing to take on new projects and be flexible

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or similar field preferred.

• Understanding of relational databases, strong SQL skills, and experience with data modeling and architecture.

• Experience in leading a technical team and Interacting with stakeholders for requirement gathering and Analysis

• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to express complex ideas in simple terms.

o Ability to assume ownership of specific functions and products while leading and managing multiple tasks.

o Demonstrated ability to work well independently, as well as partner with others as a team,

o Willingness to take initiative to improve processes and resolve problems.

o Proven ability to rapidly assimilate knowledge of processes and systems.

• 5+ years of report creation experience with large enterprise Business Intelligence tools, including recent versions of Jaspersoft and Business Object.

• 3-5 years experience on Jaspersoft reporting Tools

• Experience with Jaspersoft Studio and Visualize.js.

• Knowledge of Jaspersoft report server administration, installation and configuration.

• Knowledge of report deployment and configuration. • Knowledge of Jaspersoft Architecture and Deployment

.• Knowledge of User Management in Jaspersoft Server.

• Experience in developing Complex Reports using Jaspersoft Server and Jaspersoft Studio.

• Understand the Overall architecture of Jaspersoft BI

.• Experience in creating Ad Hoc Reports, OLAP, Views, Domains

• Experience in creating dashboards with visualizations.

• Experience in security and auditing, metadata layer

• JasperReport API's /libraries

. • Metadata repository concepts

• Should have understanding of Jaspersoft Server Components o Experience with modifying a report template dynamically

• Experience creating graphical dashboards and tabular reports with drill-downs.

• Predictive analytics experience with data science, statistical analysis, data mining and predictive algorithms

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Excel (VlookUps, Power Pivot, formulas, etc.)

• Proficient in Business Intelligence architecture, dashboard, and report development including objects, filters, prompts and metrics.

• Demonstrated experience working with ETL developers to define data mapping documents and database design.

• Experience with JavaScript and HTML preferred.

• Preferred experience with agile software development.

• Preferred experience with data security and privacy technologies • Preferred experience with key BI trends.

• Preferred experience with leading edge technologies and best practices such as Hadoop and Big Data

• Preferred experience with the BI vendor landscape

• Preferred experience with mobile delivery architecture and best practices.

• Preferred experience with data security and privacy laws

If this is something of interest to you or anyone you may know please email me at cweikel@kforce.com.

Thank you!! Christine