Microstrategy Consultant
Opdracht ID: 12684
Budget: € 90 tot € 90 p.u.
Geplaatst: 12-02-2018
Reacties: 0
Locatie: Amsterdam, België
Laatst gewijzigd: 12-02-2018
Status: Gesloten
Dear freelancer,
For this specific job we are looking for a technical MicroStrategy expert that understands the usage of the MicroStrategy suite (desktop, developer, system manager, operations manager, object manager, command manager, integrity manager) and the infrastructure it runs on.
He or she should be able to:
- service our business users and self-service BI Teams (e.g. consult the expert and end users, solve incidents and problems);
- implement optimal use of Operations Manager (prev. Health Monitor);
- work closely together with the solutions enabling scrum team and contribute to their activities from a run perspective (e.g. upgrades/fixes, defining a governance/target operating model, etc.).
The MicroStrategy Run team consists of around 3-4 Run Specialists, 1-2 IBM colleagues (technical infra focus) and 3 TCS colleagues who focus on application maintenance. All team members have various backgrounds and expertise.The coming period we are growing towards a 'one-team' way of working. Goal is to get a multi skilled and passionate team that takes responsibility for MicroStrategy Run and that overcomes the boundaries within Run between FM, AM and TM (resp. AAB, TCS, IBM).
With the following results:
Some examples of the current user stories that the team has on their backlog and on which the applicant would be working:
- Arrange advanced automated monitoring on the MicroStrategy environment on application and infrastructure level. E.g. create & analyse current usage of reports/dashboards;
- Solve the upgrade issues resulting from the previous upgrade from 9.4 to 10.4;
- Solve issues with Moderation Application (MA) and improve MA for run (MA is an in house build java application for managing access ranges within reports);
- Acceptance testing and implementation of new features within the MicroStrategy platform (for example D3 visualizations and Vitara Charts);
- Contribute to and accept security features within MicroStrategy and its connected platforms (for example Kerberos);
- Participating from a run perspective in migrating the MicroStrategy environment from dedicated hardware to our internal dedicated cloud solution;
- Implement several improvements defined in the Health Check done by MicroStrategy Q4 2017;
- Knowledge transfer to the run team and improving the way of working.
- Coaching the team to achieve more maturity.
The starting date is as soon as possible and ending date is negotiable (preferably 11-12 months).
Relevant knowledge and skills:
- 5 or more years experience in MicroStrategy platform (pref. run/maintenance)
- Knowledge and/or education on Bachelor level in the area of IT, Information Studies, Software engineering or a related discipline
- Knowledge of Systemmanager, Objectmanager and Operations Manager
- Experience in Java, Javascript and websphere environment
- Knowledge/experience in ITIL/BiSL Service Management
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Proven ability to apply analytical and creative thought
- Motivated, independent and proactive work attitude
- Basic knowledge of databases such as SQL, Teradata, Hadoop and NoSQL
- Loves to work in a challenging and high demanding environment
- Strong consultancy and coaching skills
