Application Development Analyst
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This role supports a large-scale modernization initiative to transition legacy financial systems and processes to a new statewide financial management solution. Over 1,500 computing assets-including interfaces, enterprise applications, databases, automated processes, and reporting tools-require updates to align with new standardized business processes, a revised chart of accounts, and replacement of existing financial system functionality.
More than 1,000 of these assets are financial reports that currently rely on manual data manipulation. To support the transition and improve organizational decision-making, the agency is seeking a resource skilled in Microsoft Power BI to design and develop financial dashboards that will replace existing data extract reports. This position will help transform raw financial data into actionable insights, enabling leadership to operate as a data?driven organization.
This role will play a key part in a multi?year transformation effort, working closely with internal teams to ensure accurate remediation of financial reporting assets, alignment with new system requirements, and development of modern analytics solutions that support long?term operational effectiveness., * Analyze the current data environment and data structures to determine if any transformation needs to occur prior to developing dashboards.
- Work with management to develop an overall reporting roadmap for the organization.
- Analyze existing reports and work with business users to determine how these reports can be improved based on current business needs.
- Work with developers and end users to automate data transformation by reducing the reliance on pivot tables and analysis in Microsoft Excel
- Read and document WebFOCUS and Mainframe FOCUS queries and convert them to T-SQL queries.
- Work with database administrators from the Office of Information Technology to create database views and stored procedures that will facilitate the creation of Power BI reports.
- Create dataflows in Power BI.
- Analyze financial data and make recommendations to improve the data model of financial systems.
- Provide administration of the Power BI dedicated workspace.
- Train staff from the office of the comptroller on using Power BI reports.
Requirements
- Candidate must have a minimum of 3 years' experience in Business Intelligence and at least two years of experience developing dashboards and reports in Microsoft Power BI.
- Candidate must have experience with IBM DB2 databases.
- Experience building dashboards and reports leveraging Microsoft Power BI
- Experience developing paginated reports in Power BI
- Strong SQL skills.
- Well versed in data governance best practices
- Familiarity with data management concepts such as Data Warehousing, Operational Data Stores, Data Lakes, and Master Data Management
- Experience creating reports presenting financial data such as general ledger data, purchasing data, or revenue data.
- Familiarity with advanced data structures such as OLAP cubes and Star/Snowflake Schema.
- Knowledge of how Power BI integrates with other Microsoft tools such as Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Point, and Teams.
- Analytical thinking for converting data into relevant reports and graphics.
- Understanding of how to implement solutions with multiple data sources.
- Experience with IBM DB2 databases.
- Knowledge of Mainframe flat files.
- Knowledge of the SCRUM Framework.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Oracle Datawarehouse.
- Knowledge of mainframe programming languages, computer systems and supporting software. 16. Knowledge of financial systems such as an ERP.
- Experience with WebFOCUS