Lead Business Intelligence Developer (Remote) at Andela Nigeria

Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software developers. Based in NYC, SF, Lagos, Nairobi, Rwanda and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead Business Intelligence Developer

Location: Nigeria (Remote)

Description
What you’ll do:

• This highly visible business-facing role is responsible for building operational and critically important dashboards, scorecards, and other decision-support visualizations - all on a modern cloud platform. 
• The role will also support data warehouse design and executive-level discussions regarding new opportunities and viable capabilities of the business intelligence and visualization platform.

Responsibilities
Who you are:

• Hands-on developer and teammate with passion for working on a variety of data projects.
• Interacts directly and maintains flexibility with business to meet desired outcomes.
• Leads effort to build strong functional requirements to deliver premier data visualizations.
• Builds wireframes for insightful discussions, authors documentation, and supports end-user training around usage and full functionality.
• Participates and chips in to discussions regarding the advantages and disadvantages of data warehouse design approaches.
• Maintains metadata catalog for reporting, critical metrics, and available working visualizations.
• Supports code review process, provides advice and gives constructive feedback to fellow business intelligence and visualization developers.
• Crafts open dialogues and discourses with data team leads to remove much of the opacity in directional decision making.
• Supports the drive for innovation through identifying emerging trends and their alignment to business outcomes.
• Ensures that technical requirements and standard methodologies are met and deployed within the context of the data teams standards.
• Builds trust in all interactions and always strives to improve the team around you.
• Passion for leaving the code base better than it was found.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, Business, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Deep understanding of business intelligence and visualization tools, e.g. Looker.
• Experienced with dimensional modeling methodologies and approaches to support complex visualizations.
• Deep understanding of ANSI SQL.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms, e.g. GCP Big Query.
• Understanding of working with data integration tools, e.g. dbt.
• Ability to assess business needs and translate them into appropriate data designs.
• Experience researching performance bottlenecks, diagnosing problems, and articulating viable solutions to implement.
• General understanding of distributed version control systems, e.g. Git.
• Desire to work in a constantly evolving environment and maintain the ability to shift in new directions as business needs are altered.
• Ability to lead, handle, coach, mentor, and empower team members on a global scale.

Benefits

• Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote!
• Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela
• Quarterly work from home stipends
• Flexible working hours
• Equity (as a part of compensation package)
• Healthcare, 401k / pension (US only)
• Andela Affinity Groups
• Growth & development paths
• Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave
• And more to come! We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.