Friday, July 27, 2012

Level 3 - Business Intelligence Developer

Stronger Connections. New Possibilities.
A career with Level 3 is more than just a job, it's an opportunity to join a company that delivers a comprehensive portfolio of converged voice, video, data and managed services to enterprise, content, wholesale and government customers. Business applications require more bandwidth, and we aim to deliver exceptional value to support efficiency and growth. Our customers partner with our team of over 10,000 dedicated people in more than 45 countries who focus on understanding business challenges, responding with a relevant solution and delivering a consistent, industry-leading customer experience. Whether you are an experienced professional, or just embarking on your career, Level 3 provides a fast-paced, challenging and supportive environment in which to grow.

Why Join Level 3 Communications?
We are trusted, reliable and responsive in meeting the needs of our customers. Level 3 is experiencing tremendous growth and raising the bar in the telecommunications industry. To support our continued success, we are looking for the best in the industry to join our team.

Apply today and become an integral part of the team that is raising the bar in the telecommunications industry.

SummaryWorking independently under limited supervision, plans, designs, develops, and analyzes business plans for complex problems. The primary responsibilities of the position include the coordination/gathering of project impact assessments from various groups within organization, working with stakeholders to understand their requirements to define scope of projects, assist program managers in group with defining requirements and successfully tracking projects through their respective life-cycles.

Essential Duties* Manages release schedules, prioritizes projects, ensures adequate resources are available during testing windows, attends/leads meetings, provides project status reporting to management, assists with testing scenarios, and validates results.
* Responsible for conducting and documenting complex business analysis projects.
* Develops, interprets and implements financial concepts for business planning and control.
* Performs technical analysis to determine present and future business performance.
* Occasionally leads direct or indirect employees for a specific project or objective.
* May provide functional advice or training to less-experienced business analyst positions.

Education and Experience* Experience: 5+ yrs
* Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
* Field Of Study: Business, Finance, Management or related field
* A combination of education and experience is acceptable: Yes
* Attention to detail with good organizational capabilities.
* Ability to prioritize with good time management skills.

Knowledge, Skills or Abilities- 5 years of experience, a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly professional and self motivated with the ability to work well independently and on a team.
- Good troubleshooting skills and methodologies.
-Experienced in analyzing complex issues, distilling and communicating their relevant aspects.
- Ability to work multiple efforts and projects in parallel
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
- Ability to proactively identify risks/issues, and drives action to mitigate/resolve them.
- Prior analysis and reporting experience, proficiency with MS Office Suite including Project
- Strong analytical and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work independently
- Prioritizing and seeing through competing tasks, applying strong analytical focus to all responsibilities, and looking for innovative approaches to solutions.
- Requires expertise in MS Office and Project.
- Experience with project managing large projects.
- Deals well with ambiguity.
- Possess effective presentation skills.
- Quick learner in order to develop strong product knowledge and entire product lifecycle.
- Facilitation skills, to lead requirements to execution.
- Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information.
- Experienced in analyzing complex issues, distilling and communicating their relevant aspects.
- Project Management Certification desired.

Work Environment
Government Security Required: No

Sits five to seven hours per day. Stands and or walks one to three hours per day. May bend, reach, stoop and crouch throughout the day. Should have the ability to hear, speak and see effectively to perform the necessary tasks of this position. Manual dexterity is occasionally required. The position may require frequent movement and activity relating to using keyboards, viewing data on computer displays, and communicating verbally and in writing to the needs of others. The employee-owner may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Working Conditions: Work is performed in an office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Qualifications

Essential Job Responsibilities and Requirements :- Overall job responsibility is to create repeatable and intuitive SQL server reports against organizational, group, and individual contributor performance measures to facilitate process and team improvement.- Individual will create performance reports on install, change and disconnect orders as well as performer tasks, actions and revenue reporting. Reporting and metrics will be sourced from multiple order entry, workflow and inventory systems as well as supporting data marts / databases. Required Knowledge and Skills:- Proficient in the following: Microsoft SQL Server (which uses the T-SQL ANSI/SQL development standards) SSRS (SQL Server Report Services) SSIS/DTS package development Visual Studio Oracle 9i or better.