Senior Reporting Developer at CSG International

Job description

The Role and Responsibilities:

We are looking for an exceptional Report Developer who is passionate about reporting and analytics technologies, ETL tools, and building high-performance systems. You will need to be able to work closely with Product Owners, Developers, Testers and other Stakeholders to deliver high quality products to a specified timescale.

As the 2nd largest business support solutions (BSS) provider, CSG International provides solutions to a global client base. Join an elite team of IT professionals who are driven for success in finding innovative solutions for our company and clients. We respond to the complexity of a dynamic, convergent world with a flexible set of needs-based solutions, innovative new technologies and forward thinking that helps our clients solve business problems and identify new opportunities and revenue streams. The System Analyst position is key to delivering software and services-based solutions that enable our clients to accurately capture, manage, generate and optimize revenue, strengthen customer relationships and exploit emerging opportunities in highly complex, transformational market.

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 responsibilities permit

Skills and Experience:

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.