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About Ellucian Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes. Values Rooted in Purpose We embrace the power to lead , the courage to innovate , and the determination to grow . At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation , we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education. About The Opportunity Description of Job Duties: The ‘Consultant- BI Reporting’ uses his superior report development skills and his Data Warehousing/BI knowledge to provide outstanding service to the Ellucian Managed Services client community. He/she will closely work with the Business Users to gather and prioritize the requirements. He/she will be involved in building the prototypes and demonstrating the same to the customer. Once reports are developed and tested he will provide a reports demo to end users. He is also involved in the documenting of functional and technical requirements. Responsibilities also include knowledge sharing through demonstrations and training to technical staff and end users. In addition, the successful candidate will be responsible for needs assessment, solutioning and developing a strong working relationship with the client. Responsibilities: The ‘Consultant- BI Reporting’ Consultant will: Connect with business users to understand the reporting needs and build/demonstrate prototypes that may suit the user needs Develop and test the reports (requested by the business users) using various reporting tools like SSRS , OBIEE , Argos etc Migration of reports from one reporting tool to another. This involves understanding/clarifying the requirements for the existing reports and rebuilding the same in a new reporting tool Debugging the issues with the existing reports and provide the appropriate fixes Provide technical assistance by responding to inquiries from others regarding errors, problems, or questions about reporting applications. Analyze code to find causes of errors and revise applications Prepare documents related to requirements and specifications for conversion, reporting, interfaces and custom applications. Write documentation that describes installation and operating procedures. Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or equivalent degree program. Overall 4 - 7 years of experience. With 4 + years of relevant experience in the area of reports development Working experience with any of these reporting tools : SSRS , OBIEE Strong Data Warehousing concepts (Facts , Dimensions ,Hierarchies , Aggregate tables , Dimensional Data Modelling etc) Strong experience of SQL queries and performance tuning Prior experience of directly working with the business users for gathering the requirements , prototype demonstrations etc Willing to learn new technologies to serve the ever changing customer needs Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, vendors and customers. Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the artifacts as needed Develop accurate and comprehensive test plans and execute tests according to plans. Desired Skills/Knowledge/Experience: Knowledge of Cognos , Tableaue Reporting tool Knowledge of ETL development Knowledge about the US Higher Education Domain Show more Show less
