Business Intelligence Team Lead

Please send resume in Word format if you are interested in this Business Intelligence Team Lead position with our client in Branchville, NJ (2 days in the office, 3 days working from home). Salary for this role is in the $140K range plus a 10% bonus and EXCELLENT benefits. If you are not interested, please pass onto colleagues/associates for review as we offer referral bonuses should they be hired.

• Bachelor’s degree required? A degree is not required, but highly preferred
• Top 3 technologies the manager is seeking? Informatica or Cognos, PowerBI would be highly preferred
• What size team are they going to be leading? I believe this will be a team of 3 that this role will be leading. It will also report into our Sr. Application Manager
• Any career growth opportunity for this individual? This role can lead into a Manager role, but there are also opportunities to move outside into different departments in Selective
• Will they consider a strong lead candidate without Cloud experience? Cloud experience is highly preferred, but we are open to seeing strong candidates without it

• Develops and maintains productive working relationships with management, project sponsors, key systems users, end-users, and IT partners.
• Leads and guides a team of system administrators, planning training, work assignments, priorities, schedules and day-to-day activities. Monitors team member work performance.
• Leads and guides the system administrators in detailed design, implementation, maintenance and support activities for IM software and application platforms in production and non-production environments.
• Works with enterprise and IM architects to develop vision and advance data and analytics platform capabilities.
• Performs the duties of an Application Specialist, as required, assessing alternative systems approaches for workability and economic feasibility, designing and implementing systems to specifications, and develop/coordinate project plans, and reviews documentation and assures it is complete, acceptable, and in accordance with standards.
• Prepares regular status reports.
• Ensures deliverables are on-time and of high quality.
• Resolves and/or escalates technical and project delivery issues.
• Drives process improvements within the team and across the department to improve efficiency and quality.
• Acts as a key contributor in planning and estimation of projects.

• Have the ability to work well with people with varying technical abilities.
• Have strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate with stakeholders at many organizational levels and of various levels of technical expertise.
• Have successfully accomplished (but not limited to) the duties listed in the preceding level.
• Have an admin/support mindset, enjoy customer support type of work.
• Have proven problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Be able to stay calm and level-headed in a crisis situation, while others around him/her may not.
• Be comfortable leading a hybrid team of employees & consultants (onsite/offshore, remote, multiple office locations).
• Have a proven history of owning and taking accountability for leading others to complete complex deliverables.
• Be organized and a logical thinker.
• Have the ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and adapt easily to changing priorities and timelines.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field. Minimum 7 years of IT experience, preferably a portion in systems administration or architecture.
• Experience in ITIL, incident and problem management.
• Experience in administration of software platforms such as Informatica and Cognos.
• Experience in administration Cloud platforms such as MS Azure, Databricks/Synapse/Snowflake, IICS, Power BI preferred, including metrics and metering.
• Experience migrating to any of these cloud platforms is preferred.
• Experience with Devops, automation a plus.
• Experience with SAFe Agile methodology a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to manage many stakeholders at all levels from across the organization.