Data Visualization engineer

Company: Silicon Spectra, Inc.
Location: Burbank
Posted on: March 27, 2020

Job Description:

Job Summary As a Data Visualization engineer, the primary role will be to maintain the data visualization technologies and platform and provide support in advancing the capabilities to synthesize huge volumes of complex big data, and refine that raw data into actionable visual insights meaningful and important to business. Based on the analytical questions to explore, you will design and build the semantic layer to best support self-service BI to users. In some cases, you will also work with business expert to generate key metrics and make them available in the Data Visualization tool. This is a place where divisional analytical users can visit to understand how we are performing toward our goals, learn about the shape of our business metrics, and regularly check in on measurement that are central to our company's mission. We are looking for a well-rounded engineer who has good business and design sense. The Daily DATA VISUALIZATION APPLICATONS -Assist with the selection implementation and integration of data visualization tools. Maintain data visualization tools and act as a subject matter expert providing support to team members BUSINESS ENABLEMENT - Work closely with business users to define and deliver effective data visualizations. Create and maintain core internal dashboards that are cross departmental APPLY AND SET STANDARD - Build aggregate datasets using ETL principles that underlay visualizations. Participate in the creation and support of BI development standards and best practices RESEARCH - Continually research and improve new methods and technologies in the analytics and visualization space. Apply your learnings to what you build. Rapidly deliver on concepts through prototypes that can be presented for feedback TRAINING - Train fellow employees on best practices for data visualization and help others be successful stewards of our tools. Transform the way our business users consume data and insights through highly usable and visually stunning data products. The Essentials Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineer, Mathematics or similar required, master's degree preferred 3 years of relevant experience Delivering business intelligence and dashboard solutions Expert in Tableau and data visualization design Analyzing, compiling, cleansing, interpreting, joining and staging data Working with an Enterprise Data Warehouse and Redshift, Teradata, Oracle andor SQL Server databases Demonstrable skills building responsive data visualizations Working in an Agile development environment Research product and technical data in order to recommend products, technologies, and processes for ongoing projects Proven ability to produce high quality data visualizations in a fast-paced environment An expert who can tell a story with data, as well as visualize it with a variety of tools (Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects, MicroStrategy, etc) Strong background in data relationships, modeling, semantic layer and mining Proficient in data wrangling technologies like SQL and Python Proficient with D3.js Experience with Redshift, Teradata or other parallel database Experience working with complex and large volumes of data Ability of filtering the signal from the noise in datasets Experience with Hive, Spark, or Scala is a plus - Experience with Jasper, Caravel, Kibana, or Zeppelin is a plus Experience with R or Matlab is a plus Other Requirements Ability to work independently and problem solve with little to no direction Willingness and ability to learn in a fast-paced environment Ability to teach and train effectively Experience managing multiple, simultaneous projects Must be able to organize and schedule work effectively Must be able to work well under time constraints Must be able to handle multiple tasks with changing priorities, communicating changes in scope and schedule to all parties concerned Must be able to work flexible hours, including possible overtime, when necessary Must be able to maintain confidentiality The Ideal Candidate Loves data and pays close attention to details Cares about the quality of the input data as well as how the processed data is ultimately interpreted and used

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