Business Intelligence Programmer Opportunity

Pinnacol has a new opportunity in our Decision Support Services team for a "Business Intelligence Programmer" . If you're not an IT wizard, which I am definitely not, just the title is intimidating, so I sought out the hiring manager, David, to share some insights as to what this position really does and what he's looking for in candidates. Joining David in the conversation is Dan, one of our Decision Support team members. If you, or someone you know, are interested, it really is a unique opportunity to join this key team at Pinnacol Assurance.



Here is a copy of the formal job announcement:

Pinnacol Assurance is looking for a Business Intelligence Programmer to develop, maintain, and assist in the design of our business intelligence systems including, but not limited to, ETL scripts, html and java interfaces in Microstrategy and our mobile device applications. Position codes, maintains and assists in the design of data mart/warehouse tables, queries and metadata, tunes data mart/warehouse queries and other programs as required, and works with our Application Services and Data & Network Services teams to create and maintain interfaces between data marts/warehouse, information tools and production systems. Must be able to establish and maintain strong relations with Decision Support Services staff and internal customers.  Position plays support role in DSS-related portions of IS Application Development projects, company-wide strategic initiatives, and business-focused initiatives. Candidates should possess expertise in, and the ability to mentor, SQL, PL/SQL and SQL*Plus, as well as have expertise in ETL practices, html and Java. Also required is a high proficiency in advanced SQL tuning, table creation, indexing and links along with proficiency in data warehouse theory and applications, and star schema (Kimball Model). Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience; computer science degree/MIS, business/economics or statistics preferred. Experience with Oracle and/or other relational database management systems, the use of database query tools using SQL, working with data warehouse design, 3+ years related experience in Programming is required.

If you understood all of that, you really should apply! Please complete an expression of interest via our company website's careers page.