Job Description
The Senior Engineer is a fully-participating member of a cross-functional team working autonomously on technology development and problem resolution in the Enterprise Data & Analytics space. The role involves the design, development, testing, implementation, support and maintenance of BI solutions and products that support Emirates Airlines and the Emirates Group businesses.
As a Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer you will
- Design and build BI solutions such as dashboards, reports and universes/dossiers to provide business users ability to derive insights and make decisions based on ED&A data. Translate functional and non-functional data and analytics requirements into fit for purpose technical design. Ensure solution performance, business edge cases and security related issues are addressed while developing software.
- Debug issues of complexity, resolve blockers and follow design documents with minimal or no supervision.
- Demonstrate good coding principles. Conduct code review for peers. Ensure solutions adhere to published data privacy and cybersecurity principles.
- Operate with a data-driven mindset.Help translate data and analytics requirements into BI solutions based on the approved technical designs.Collaborate with Product Owners, Insights Specialists and Business Users on producing the right KPI and associated visuals to ensure that the artefacts delivered propel data-driven insights.
- Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Promote self-service BI by building self-service applications and providing clear definitions for all semantically modelled data.
- Update data inventories and registries as required to keep metadata and data lineage up-to-date, following agreed Data Governance standards, guidelines and principles.
- Carry out unit testing independently. Troubleshoot issues, and fix defects that are of moderate to high complexity.
- Shadow senior and lead data engineers on design and architecture components, and collaborate with members of the cross-functional team to identify areas of inefficiency and propose solutions. Assist with data analysis activities such as source system analysis, data modelling, data dictionary collection, data profiling and source-to-target mapping to ensure solutions deliver on business needs.
- Adhere to published coding standards, guidelines and best practices and contribute to Data Engineering Playbooks and other data technology blueprints.
