Data Visualization Engineer -SMTS

Job description

Job Title: Data Visualization Engineer, Visualization and Enablement (VnE)
Department Overview: Visualization and Enablement - Product Data Science
The Product Data Science (PDS) team is made up of data scientists, engineers, and growth analysts who are dedicated to driving product strategy with data-driven insights. The PDS team works with executives, product managers, designers, developers, user researchers, marketers, and sales strategy team members across all Cloud businesses to discover new opportunities for growth and optimization, experiment with data, drive adoption, and provide actionable insights that impact product strategy.
Role Description
The Data Visualization Engineer, Visualization and Enablement (VnE) position will be responsible for evangelizing data visualization throughout the organization by designing, developing & maintaining visual display of all the mission critical data sets generated by the VnE team for statistical and machine learning computational requirements. This person will play the role of "Data Artist", making an impact by storytelling with data in summarizing, profiling, sampling, visualizing and analyzing terabytes of data. So if you are passionate about data and its analysis using Visualizations then you will love working in this team.
The VnE Data Visualization Engineer will work closely with various functional groups on projects involving data discovery, assessing data samples, massaging and preparing data for hypothesis testing and machine learning algorithms.
This role has the overall responsibility for establishing and evangelizing BI and data visualization services in support of analyst and data scientists with Product Data Science. The VnE Data Visualization Engineer plays a critical role in enabling the ability to bring order and insight to the data.
Responsibilities

·  Build Dashboards and Interactive reports using Analytics Cloud in enterprise data warehouse for the researched domain.

·  Create compelling custom visualizations using Elastic Search/Solr and Open source JavaScript libraries.

·  Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs for insights & analytics.

·  Architect, develop, validate and communicate BI solutions such as reports, dashboards, KPIs and alerts.

·  Understand modeling constraints and creates elegant solutions to both present and deliver information for easy consumption.

·  Define standards and procedures for best practices for visual intelligence design & development.

·  Lead re-engineering efforts for existing application to align them with new standards and guidelines.

·  Carry out "hands on" development of data visualizations in support of projects

·  Advise management and technical staff on specifications of hardware and software related to the area of data visualization.

·  Develop and maintain thorough system documentation and training materials related to software and hardware used for visualization.

·  Able to identify incomplete data, improve quality of data and integrate data from several data sources.

·  Collaborate with BU Analysts and developers on the efficient use of Tableau and other visualization tools and how those technologies can be applied to effective data visualization applications.

·  Engage with Wave and other product owners. This includes driving features and functions requests back into the vendor for inclusion in the product(s).

·  Endorse open source tools & techniques in development, management and release process. Utilize in house software effectively.

Job Requirements

·  BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering , Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research, Econometrics or equivalent/related degree.

·  3+ years of Data Visualization experience using Tableau and similar tools.

·  3+ years of experience with Elastic search/Solr and open source JavaScript libraries like D3.Js and High Charts

·  Ability to quickly learn and gain deep understanding of SFDC business processes.

·  Ability to perform thorough analysis of complex data, draw sound conclusions, and devise actionable strategies.

·  Proficiency in at least one business intelligence tool such as MicroStrategy, Tableau or Business Objects is required.

·  Expert in either Tableau or Wave business and development standards and best practices related to reports, lenses, dashboards and all related objects.

·  Experience in architecting, designing dimensional sets and caching methods.

·  Expert in the visual representation of complex information for driving business impact.

·  Subject Matter Expert and Evangelist on enterprise data, visualization, data analysis, data modeling, SQL constructs and workload management.

·  Expert in SQL and Non-SQL tools for data analysis, report development and performance tuning.

·  Experience with one or more database management tools like Oracle, Teradata, MS SQL Server, MySQL, etc.

·  Experience in Hadoop, Hive, Hbase is a strong plus.

·  Expert in Dimensional Data Modeling and presentation layer design.

·  Ability to prioritize and execute multiple tasks in a highly dynamic environment with result oriented mindset.

·  Detail oriented with proven analytical, problem identification and resolution skills.

·  Ability to work effectively in an unstructured and fast-paced environment, and have a high degree of self-management with clear communication and commitment to delivery timelines.

·  Proven interpersonal, communication and presentation skills - must be able to explain technical concepts and analysis implications clearly to a wide audience.

·  Above average capabilities with basic analysis tools of Microsoft Office suite.

·  Experience in the use of open source software.
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