Friday, October 26, 2007

Essbase Developer - Hyperion in Dallas, TX

Our client is recognized as a leader in the Dallas - Fort Worth area! This client has a need for a Hyperion Essbase Developer. In this role, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, and development of the Hyperion financial based module for a large-scale reporting environment.

As the Essbase Developer, you will be responsible for the full life cycle development, implementation, production support, and performance tuning of the various financial-based modules and reporting needs. You will interact with various functional department teams, project managers, and senior management.

You should be experienced in analyzing, defining, and documenting data requirements, and reporting needs from existing budgeting and planning processes. You should also be able to identify and define data sourcing, business rules, and transformation logic for next phases of the Project.

Key Objectives:
-- Perform day-to-day Hyperion Essbase programming functions as directed.
-- Create reports and reporting environments of data from various source applications.
-- Programming in SQL (Oracle PL/SQL) to perform the data query functions.
-- Implement the strategic plan for support of future company information requirements.
-- Support effective and efficient business processes in partnership with other software and reporting development teams.
-- Identify ownership and accountability for enterprise reporting information.
- Create customized Essbase budget/planning applications (planning for income statements, balance sheet, workforce planning, cash flow, cost of sales planning, capital expenditures, and project planning)
-- Ensure that information needs and business rules are in compliance with enterprise policies and standards.
-- Participate in evaluating new technologies to ensure the continuity and advancement of data and technology architecture within company information needs.
-- Build a framework for accurately capturing, sharing, distributing, securing, and leveraging company data resources.

Minimum Technical Requirements:
-- 5+ years Information Technology experience.
-- 2+ years experience in a RDBMS programming environment, Oracle preferred.
-- 2+ years experience in as a Hyperion Essbase Database development (version 6.x preferred).
-- 1+ years experience in performance tuning Essbase Reports.
-- Strong background in structured systems and data analysis.
-- Demonstrated ability with JAD and RAD methodologies.
-- Expertise in relational database design (normalized and dimensional).
-- Skilled with one or more data modeling CASE tools (e.g., ERwin, SilverRun, LBMS, S-Designor).
-- Proficient with MS Office suite.

Required:
-- Excellent end-user management expertise;
-- Strong ability to work with business units to formulate business and data requirements.
-- Ability to work with other database administrators to complete database designs and models.
-- Highly motivated individual with very good analytical skills dedicated to completing tasks on schedule.

Desired:
-- Experience optimizing views and databases within the Hyperion Essbase environment.
-- Have experience working with other Business Intelligence software (Business Objects, Cognos, MicroStrategies, Crystal Reports) applications.
-- Exposure to Hyperion Budget and Planning implementation
-- Experienced working with an Enterprise Integration project(s).
-- Knowledge of Unix a plus.

Education:
-- BS or BA, desirable.

If you are interested in being considered for this opportunity, please forward your resume and indicate job title. Presently our client is only accepting U.S. citizens and permanent residents. You must pass a criminal background check, credit check, security check, and drug test before entering the assignment.

We would like to thank everyone who submits their resume for this position. Due to the volume of resumes that we receive, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. r2 Technologies offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits, is an equal opportunity employer, and promotes a smoke-free and drug-free workplace.


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