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Tuesday 11 February 2014

IBM Business Information Management Specialist vacancy

IBM Business Information Management Specialist vacancy

About this company
IBM is a global technology and innovation company headquartered in Armonk, NY. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 400,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers. Utilizing its business consulting, technology and R&D expertise, IBM helps clients become "smarter" as the planet becomes more digitally interconnected. This includes working with organizations and governments to build systems that improve traffic congestion, availability of clean water, and the health and safety of populations. IBM invests more than $6 billion a year in R&D, just completing its 18th year of patent leadership. IBM Research has received recognition beyond any commercial technology research organization and is home to 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards, and 10 Inductees in US Inventors Hall of Fame. The company was behind the inventions of the PC; SABRE travel reservation system; UPC codes, Watson, the Jeopardy!-playing computing system, and much more.


The Job:
• Own the business intelligence platform and constantly evolve to meet the information needs of a growing business, continuously pursue and master new business intelligence skills to help business.
• Contribute in all phases of data visualization and BI tools implementation & maintenance. Identify data and reporting needs, create reports, perform complex data analysis, create source to target mappings, developing ETL (Business Intelligence Extract , Transform Load functionality)routines and establish standards.
• Address data quality issues and drive the resolution of discrepancies.
• Work with account HQ teams; both IBM and client to understand the information needs and ensure reporting strategy and solutions are an excellent fit to evolving needs.
• Develop and support custom-built data delivery applications and dashboards.
• Install, configure, and validate DB2 across multiple environments.
• Fine tune DB2 database, develop queries and create & execute required scripts in DB2 developer.
• Automate DBA processes and create shell scripts to streamline and improve efficiency.
• Support product development and test teams through the SDLC (Service Delivery Life Cycle) process.
Qualification, Key skills and Expectation:
• Must have a degree in Computer Science/IT and/or equivalent experience. Preferred an IBM Certified DB2 DAB & Developer.
• With 7-8 years’ experience in the business intelligence function of a high data volume business such as the internet, Health care, Financial or telecoms industries.
• Excellent statistical intuition, application, and knowledge of various analytical approaches; with Strong analytical, reasoning and organizational skills.
• Experience applying business intelligence and analytics solutions to meet needs of business teams. Solid understanding of data: how to organize it, how to model it, how to distill insights from it, and how to visualize it.
• Experience in querying large, complex, and raw data sets.
• Must be detail-oriented and focused on data accuracy.
• You have the ability to communicate in simple and elegant ways the key finding and ability to effectively communicate and present data and information.
• Build strong working relationships with coworkers and client.



Required
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 7 years experience in IT
  • English: Fluent
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.




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