Sunday, August 1, 2010

ETL Programmer Analyst - hyderabad

Company  : Kantar  Operations

Location :  Hyderabad  ( Vanenburgh  IT  Park )

Website : http://www.kantaroperations.com



ETL Programmer Analyst


Role Summary:

We are looking for an innovative and motivated individual to help us transform our ETL methodologies. We collect data from various media, including television, print and internet in a complex database environment. In our West Chester, PA office, data is fed from various collection systems into a data warehouse and data marts where it is made available to our clients via web based applications. Our Database Systems Group is responsible for supporting, maintaining and enhancing database feeds and custom ETL processes. The job candidate whose abilities to help us achieve marks in “enhancing”, as we evolve our future, is the person we are looking for!

Essential Responsibilities:
• Migrating existing systems to current cutting edge platforms and tools.
• Support existing ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) applications in a complex database environment
• Design and write new ETL programs, and modify existing ETL processes
• Provide on-call support in a complex production environment (ability to quickly and accurately diagnose problems and apply appropriate remedies)

Competencies:
• Motivated self-starter – able to take the ball and run
• Ability to take ownership for assigned tasks and work independently to find/build solutions
• Able to remain results-oriented, while multitasking in a dynamic and changing environment
• Focused on providing long-term solutions as we move to the future

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Ability to design solutions and accurately estimate level of effort and completion dates
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 5+ years programming experience
• 3+ years of C# experience and/or .net
• 3+ years of Transact SQL and/or embedded SQL experience
• Experience with latest versions (2008) of MS Visual Studio and MS SQL Server
• Ability to work well in a team environment where collaboration and peer-support is critical
• Knowledge of UNIX, Sybase, Kornshell

Optional Valued Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• C++, C
• Microsoft SQL Server experience setting up SSIS/DTS packages
• VAX/VMS
• Third-party ETL Tools/Vendors (e.g. Informatica)
• College degree preferred

Work Environment
• Office Environment
How to Apply
1. If u have received a mail from me ...reply to that mail with your CTC details

Else

2. Send in your resume to bala@crest.in  with ETL  as the subject  ...Include CTC details in your mail

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Microsoft BI- SSRS/ SSIS/SSAS


Company : Microsoft  Corporation

Location : Hyderabad

Job Description
Introduction
The Partner Integrated Reporting (PIR) Team at BI Engineering Group - MSIT (India) is looking for a well-qualified person who has prior experiencing in design and implementation of 2-3 end-to-end BI Solutions on Microsoft Technology Stack. This is an IC role. The BIE Team at MSIT India deliver BI solutions for key Microsoft Businesses e.g. Consumer, Partner, Sales and Marketing etc. The PIR Team at BIE is responsible for delivering BI capabilities to Microsoft Partner Teams for enabling key reporting capabilities around the Partner Business of Microsoft. The PIR Team is engaging in a new effort for the upcoming year to deliver enhanced BI capabilities to Microsoft Partner Teams (Next Generation PIR Effort). The PIR Team is looking for a Senior Technical Leader who can help drive the Technical and Architectural direction of the Next Generation PIR across the entire BI SDLC.

Job Position
·     Should have excellent communication skills. Able to talk efficiently and effectively with the global development team and have the talent of challenging technically.
·     Should have 6+ Years of IT Experience with at-least 4 years in the Design and Development of end-to-end BI Projects
·     Should have exposure to complete SDLC for building a BI Application (Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Deployment and Support)
·     Displays high degree of Confidence and ability to work in ambiguous situations
·     Should be able to Lead the Technical Architecture / Design for the BI Application
·     Should be effective at Cross Group collaboration
·     Should have capability to influence Architecture / Design for Medium to Complex components for the BI Application (within and across the Organization)
·     Evangelizes Technology Patterns and Best Practices
·     Must able to lead a project with less dependency and control the project with respect to schedule and quality.
·     Displays great negotiation skills and displays ability to influence others
·     Excellent Team Player
·     Be an active participant on design, development and support of the project.
·     Bring technical expertise based on development experience, and make sound technical decisions to deliver high quality projects

Responsibilities:
·         Ability to drive Application Development Plans for Medium to Complex deliverables or for entire Release
·         Dimensional Modelling (Physical and Logical)
·         Design and develop ETL and relational Staging and Data Mart Databases.
·         Design and develop multi-dimensional Schemas.
·         Design and develop reporting systems for internal and external partners.
·         Contribute to development methodologies and best practices in the BI space
·         Active participation in technical investigations and prototyping
·         Evangelize on Microsoft BI Platforms and build tools to enhance Team Productivity
·         Define, Optimize and Manage the Version Control Strategy for the Project

·         Experienced in Performance Tuning specific areas of a BI Application (Database Code, ETL, Reporting, OLAP)
·         Experienced in Version Control Tools and Collaboration like Visual Source Safe, VS DB Pro and VSTF
·         Exposure to Microsoft Collaboration platform like Microsoft SharePoint Portal

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

BI Program Manager _Microsoft Corp Hyd

About the Group
BIE, stands for Business Intelligence Engineering, is part of MS IT India. BIE caters to Business Intelligence needs of various Business groups within Microsoft such as Sales and Marketing, Partners, and Services. BIE delivers enterprise reporting applications which provide decision making capabilities to MS leadership based on “data”.
Focus in BIE is around acquiring data from different sources across the organization, collate them into data warehouses which in turn help provide meaning to a vast repository of data that resides at different places across the org. BIE is also focused on enterprise data warehousing (EDW) and building/enhancing platform capabilities to improve the acquisition, integration & distribution process of the vast enterprise data.
BIE is highly committed to its customers, partners and employees realize their full potential.

Core Elements of the Job
Technical Program Manager with BIE is an Individual Contributor role encompassing program delivery and technical depth in a matrix organization. 
Key job functions performed by a program manager in BIE include delivering the various project releases as laid out by the book of work for a fiscal (program delivery) and Designing features by analyzing the Business requirements. Additional activities include working on future state roadmap, business communication, innovation work (POCs), etc.
As people who worked in BI would know, this space requires familiarity with data, understanding the relationship between data stored across different formats - be it relational tables, flat files, etc. By performing data analysis, the program manager designs features based on business requirements and presents them in the FSD docs. Some of the PM tasks include creating logical dimensional models for the data marts, surfacing the information in reports, dashboards, scorecards, portals, etc thus enabling business to make decisions using this knowledge.
For the strategic part, this role would be responsible for creating future state project roadmap, provide leadership to the team, create business cases for budgeting, enhance the project capabilities by continuous improvements & innovation, develop strong partnership with business and other groups, globally.
Other ongoing tasks would also include ensuring communications are seamless, escalations, risks and issues are well managed, interact with senior management till GM level for presentations as required.

Job Location
This position is based in Hyderabad, India and will report to a Lead PM. The job requires minimal travel, primarily to participate in planning and review discussions with team(s) in USA.

Ideal Candidate
This person would have overall 10 years of experience with a minimum of 5 years hands on experience in Project Management and 5 years of experience Technical analysis or Solution Development.
This person would excel in written and verbal communications, would have a good strategic insight while handing tactical day to day tasks. Proven ability in working across the org, a self-starter, who can deal with ambiguity, maintains focus, drives to clarity and provides innovative solutions
 Demonstrated ability to collaborate and deliver results in a matrix organization.
 Proven ability to manage multiple tasks to schedule and collaborate across multiple groups.
 Should be able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Send in Your resume with the subject line as " BI program manager " to  kurien@crest.in

Thursday, December 3, 2009

BI Lead/ Architect - Microsoft Corp hyd

Company : Microsoft Corp

Location :Hyderabad

Job Role: Senior BI Application Engineer/BI Architect (Microsoft BI)




Introduction

The Partner Integrated Reporting (PIR) Team at BI Engineering Group - MSIT (India) is looking for a well-qualified person who has prior experiencing in design and implementation of 2-3 end-to-end BI Solutions on Microsoft Technology Stack. This is an IC role. The BIE Team at MSIT India deliver BI solutions for key Microsoft Businesses e.g. Consumer, Partner, Sales and Marketing etc. The PIR Team at BIE is responsible for delivering BI capabilities to Microsoft Partner Teams for enabling key reporting capabilities around the Partner Business of Microsoft. The PIR Team is engaging in a new effort for the upcoming year to deliver enhanced BI capabilities to Microsoft Partner Teams (Next Generation PIR Effort). The PIR Team is looking for a Senior Technical Lead who can help drive the Technical and Architectural direction of the Next Generation PIR across the entire BI SDLC.



Job Position

• Should have excellent communication skills. Able to talk efficiently and effectively with the global development team and have the talent of challenging technically.

• Should have 7+ Years of IT Experience with at-least 4 years in the Design and Development of end-to-end BI Projects

• Should have exposure to complete SDLC for building a BI Application (Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Deployment and Support)

• Displays high degree of Confidence and ability to work in ambiguous situations

• Should be able to Lead the Technical Architecture / Design for the BI Application

• Should be effective at Cross Group collaboration

• Should have capability to influence Architecture / Design for Medium to Complex components for the BI Application (within and across the Organization)

• Evangelizes Technology Patterns and Best Practices

• Must able to lead a project with less dependency and control the project with respect to schedule and quality.

• Displays great negotiation skills and displays ability to influence others

• Excellent Team Player

• Be an active participant on design, development and support of the project.

• Bring technical expertise based on development experience, and make sound technical decisions to deliver high quality projects



Responsibilities:

• Ability to drive Application Development Plans for Medium to Complex deliverables or for entire Release

• Dimensional Modelling (Physical and Logical)

• Design and develop ETL and relational Staging and Data Mart Databases.

• Design and develop multi-dimensional Schemas.

• Design and develop reporting systems for internal and external partners.

• Contribute to development methodologies and best practices in the BI space

• Active participation in technical investigations and prototyping

• Evangelize on Microsoft BI Platforms and build tools to enhance Team Productivity

• Define, Optimize and Manage the Version Control Strategy for the Project



Technical Skills:

• Strong Breadth in Microsoft BI Technology Platform (with Strong Depth in 2 Technology Areas)

• Essential: Strong SQL Server Fundamentals and T-SQL Skills (SQL Server 2005+)

• Experienced in Design and Development of Microsoft OLAP Cubes (SQL Server 2005+)

• Experienced in Design and Development of Application ETL based on the Best Practices leveraging Microsoft ETL Tools

• Experienced in Design and Development of Microsoft Reporting Technologies (SQL Server Reporting Services, ProClarity or Performance Point)

• Experience on Microsoft Tools for Project Planning – Microsoft Project

• Experience on Modelling Tools like ERWIN and Microsoft Visio

• Experienced in Performance Tuning specific areas of a BI Application (Database Code, ETL, Reporting, OLAP)

• Experienced in Version Control Tools and Collaboration like Visual Source Safe, VS DB Pro and VSTF

• Exposure to Microsoft Collaboration platform like Microsoft SharePoint Portal