Senior Reporting Developer at CSG International

Job description

The Role and Responsibilities:

• SME for Jaspersoft within the technology team.
• Design, develop, and support reports and dashboards using Jaspersoft reporting platform and
• related tools
• Ensure that reports are of the highest quality and delivered on time
• Work with internal customers, Business Analysts, developers to understand business
• requirements and specific analytics and reporting needs
• Work within an Agile methodology to design, develop, test, and implement analytics and
• reporting features and functions
• Collect, summarize, analyze data and to provide reports for customers to utilize in decision making and measuring results.
• Create queries to provide ad hoc reports, analysis, and datasets based on business needs.
• Trouble shoot data issues, validate result sets, recommend and implement process improvements.
• Knowledge of ETL data cleansing, data quality, and standardization techniques
• Ability to translate business reporting requirements into a production report.
• Create report mockups and templates from business requirements when necessary.
• Understand and query disparate database sources, including relational structures, dimensional
• data marts/models and cubes.
• Design and architect schema layer objects for report development
• Work collaboratively in a small, cross-functional team.
• Analyze, prioritize, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues.
• Actively participates in the on-going development, maintenance and improvement of a
• comprehensive Knowledge Base/FAQ repository
• Takes the initiative to work with other cross functional teams to solve business problems.
• Participates in the research of new technologies in a QA environment, as time and

ExperienceQualifications:

• Degree or equivalent tertiary qualification with a computer science major from a recognized technikon or university.
• 4+ years' experience in a business intelligence environment
• Minimum 2 to 3 years hands-on experience with Jasper Reports

Requirements:

• Must be able to design complex reports using Jaspersoft Studio
• Experience with embedding Jaspersoft reports.
• Knowledge of report deployment and configuration
• Experience in creating Ad Hoc Reports, OLAP, Views, Domains
• Experience in user and role management on Jaspersoft server.
• Knowledge of Jaspersoft Architecture and Deployment.
• Experience in developing Complex Reports using Jaspersoft Server and Jaspersoft Studio.
• Experience in creating Ad Hoc Reports using Views and Domains.
• Experience in creating dashboards with visualizations.
• Experience handling and producing different file formats: CSV, XML, HTML, XLSX and PDF among others.
• Experience with common Java application development related technologies - Servlets, XML, JSP,
• HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, Java script.
• Java programming experience is advantageous
• Create test cases, test data and work with QA team to ensure accurate and complete testing
• Create technical documentation of report logic and processes
• Knowledge and hands on experience of working with Jasper server is a must.
• Demonstrable skills in data visualization
• Comfortable programing in at least one language
• Expert knowledge of PLSQL

Personal Attributes:

• Needs to be able to collaborate well within a team.
• Must be self-motivated and self-managed.
• Must be able to use initiative and take ownership.
• Ability to work well under pressure, especially in maintaining a balanced and logical approach.
• Strong problem solving skills
• Analytical and logical thinker
• Self-motivated and self-managing
• Takes initiative and ownership
• Able to communicate effectively, both written and verbal.
• Report on progress and raise issues / problems when necessary.
• Be able to work overtime and standby when required.