BI Product Specialist

As BI Product Specialist, you will focus on the delivery of new analytics capabilities to generate business insights. You will represent the business in the agile delivery environment and ensure delivery and acceptance of products which include reports, dashboards, and semantically modelled datasets.

You will engage with business users to ensure the right level of communication, engagement, acceptance, and use of features as they become available. You will provide Data Stewardship through ensuring consistency and systematic documentation of all business metadata as it arises in the design and implementation of new analytics features. This role is based full-time in our Dubai office.

In this role, you will:

• Ensure all data assets delivered are compliant with Enterprise Analytics mission of a single Enterprise Data Platform, business semantics modelled and implemented and data quality by design is prioritised as part of every feature delivered.
• Critically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the semantic layer and advise the engineering teams on required changes or improvements.
• Utilise visualisation tools such as MicroStrategy or Power BI to build interactive, insightful, and visually appealing dashboards and reports.
• Enrich and maintain a thorough map of core systems and processes to be included in the Business Intelligence domain of their business area to reduce time taken to analyse requirements and ensure data products are built with regards to impacts on other platforms.
• Create and maintain a consistent approach towards the relevant business metadata documentation for the assigned subject areas within their domain, including, e.g., Information Matrix, entity definitions and entity relationships, metric and KPI documentation, data dictionaries and user guides.
• Assist the Product Owner in translating features into prioritized user stories that include a clear description of associated business value and acceptance criteria. Ensure user feedback is incorporated into user stories by including scrum ceremonies into the business engagement model.
• Support business stakeholders in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of delivered features or carry out UAT on behalf of business clients ensuring a systematic approach to testing and reduction of production faults.
• Develop the capability of the scrum teams to understand business context of features and user stories delivered through each Program Increment (PI), arranging engagement sessions, running workshops, and acting as a first line of enquiry on behalf of business in scrum teams.
• Maintain relevant analysis of each story before committing in PI planning to ensure greatest chance of successful delivery, including source analysis, modelling paradigms, business value and acceptance criteria are defined.

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or Honours in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with and an understanding of Data & Analytics tools and platforms including Data Warehouses, data lakes and visualisation toolsets.
• Experience and knowledge in one or more of the following business domains such as: customer, commercial, operations, Finance, Human Resources or relevant.
• Experience in using data & analytics tools and technologies (e.g., SQL, Python, Power BI, Databricks, ADSL, and Snowflake).
• Experience of delivering end to end analysis of a business problem from data extraction, modelling, to dashboard creation and monitoring over time.
• Experience in either Power BI or MicroStrategy or other visualisation tool set is a must.
• Knowledge of data and KPIs commonly used in airline industry, particularly as they relate to the commercial application of this information.
• Working experience with large scale storage systems in 24/7 high availability data centre environments.

You will have an edge, if you have:

• Strong understanding of the aviation and airline operations industry.

Company Industry:

• Airlines
• Aviation

Department / Functional Area:

• IT Software

Keywords:

• BI Product Specialist