Senior BI Specialist

As a Senior BI Specialist, you participate and provide input for data integration, transformation of multiple data source systems, develop data warehouses with a combination of business intelligence, data visualization and reporting tools. Next to this, you advocate self-service analytics and will give training sessions to empower the business to build their own reports, dash boards and power BI models. At Exact, your technical skills and “dare to” mentality, can lead to the best innovations. And where is your career heading? That’s up to you. The career opportunities are unprecedented. 2000 enterprising colleagues have already paved the way. Are you on board?  

This = the job you are looking for:  

• Provide expert guidance on Business Intelligence (BI) skills and technologies. 
• Develop scalable and maintainable BI applications to meet business objectives.  
• Develop security and authentication standards for the department.  
• Maintain accurate and complete technical architectural documents.  
• Define BI standards, guidelines and best practices for business groups and technical teams.  
• Support BI tools upgrades in development, testing and documentation.  
• Perform maintenance and troubleshooting activities for BI tools.  
• Diagnose and resolve BI tool capacity issues.  
• Recommend strategies to improve performance and capacity of BI tools.  
• Address customer queries and issues in a timely manner.  
• Provide technical training on BI tools to team members.  
• Collaborate with BI Administrators, Developers and Analysts for successful development of BI reporting and analysis solutions.  
• Work with business groups and technical teams to develop and maintain data warehouse platform for BI reporting.  
• Design and build tabular models writing complex DAX formulae. 
• Build scalable data warehouse solutions using PaaS and SaaS services in Microsoft cloud. 
• Address master data issues and provide data solutions to manage them. 

You will join the 6 colleagues in the Corporate BI department. They are known for their great technical knowledge and smooth cooperation. Asking for help if necessary and offering help if possible is part of their DNA. We have few predefined paths, which gives you plenty of room to choose your own.  

The main responsibilities of the department are:  

• Key operations of the business intelligence team begin with the design and deployment of the BI architecture, which includes source systems, data warehouses, and a combination of business intelligence, data visualization, and reporting tools.  
• Advocate self-service analytics and train to empower Business to build their own reports, dash boards and power BI models.  
• Agree to SLA’s for providing front line support to the business users on the BI cubes and deliver big fixes and enhancements on a timely basis. 

This = what you bring 

With us, you can be yourself, and we would love to discover what sets you apart. For the position of Senior BI Specialist, it’s helpful if you have analytical skills and that you have good communications skills. What’s more, you bring:  

• Experience with Azure SQL and the other tools in Microsoft suite of BI tools so both On-premises and Cloud.  
• Relevant experience in building data warehouse solutions in cloud using PaaS and SaaS services. 
• Around 10 or more years of experience 
• Reporting tools, mainly Power BI  
• Data modeling, data warehousing, data visualization & analytics 
• Programming languages like Python, .net, R would be added value. 

This = what you get 

At Exact we value the balance between work and relaxation. You can work up a sweat in our own gym or take a break at the coffee bar. Empty your head and then tackle your daily tasks with renewed energy. And, of course, that's not all. As a Senior BI Specialist, based on 40 hours per week, you can also count on:  

• A competitive salary package incl. a 13th month and of course 8% holiday allowance  
• An international, innovative and hybrid working environment, with the flexibility to work from home or any of our offices  
• Over 2000 colleagues worldwide of which more than 500 in technology.  
• 27 vacation days and in addition, loyalty days; one for each year in service with a max of 5  
• 3 Giving back days, which can spend on giving back to (local) community  
• A modern pension scheme  
• All the room your ambition needs and to further develop your skills we facilitate training via our learning and development center to help you to fulfill your career potential  
• Friday afternoon drinks at our bar “Bits & Bytes”

About Exact

Exact develops cloud software for small and medium-sized companies and their accountants. The products automate business processes in areas such as Finance and HR and provide specific ERP solutions for wholesale distribution, manufacturing, projects and construction. This saves time and provides insight. It enables customers to work efficiently, make informed decisions and continue growing. More than 675,000 companies primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany already rely on Exact's software.

Exact was founded in 1984 in Delft, the Netherlands, which is still the location of our head office. Every day, more than 2,000 ambitious professionals work on innovation. Driving responsible business, with respect for each other, the environment and society is central to this. For more information, visit www.exact.com.