Reporting & Analytics Platform Administrator

What this job is about:
As a Reporting and Analytics Platform Administrator, you will support reporting platform and technologies that connect critical enterprise statewide applications. You will provide platform administration, maintain reporting software solutions and operational support to the business intelligence and analytics software platforms and financial reporting services during and out of operation hours.

Note: Telecommuting is available, but you must be able to come into the office in Olympia WA if deemed necessary. We will strive to give reasonable notice.

Who we are:
Our work at the Office of Financial Management (OFM) serves as a crucial part of the decision-making that the governor, Legislature and state agencies do each year. As an employee of OFM, you will be part of a team of dedicated professionals who work hard every day to provide the vital information and services they need to serve the people of Washington.
 
If playing a key role in supporting and improving state government matters to you, you’ve found the right place.

What we offer our employees:

• Foster an environment of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to hire, cultivate and retain a competitive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. 
• Encourage a healthy life/work balance by offering flexible/alternative work schedules, wellness program, mobile arrangements and telework opportunities.
• Employees (and their families) have coverage options for medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance. 
• Opportunity to enroll in state retirement programs and a deferred compensation plan. 
• A minimum of 14 days of vacation leave per year and 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• OFM offers a commute trip reduction program, tuition reimbursement, membership to statewide Business Resource Groups and an Infants-at-Work program.

 What you’ll do: 

• Maintain and provide operational support/maintenance for SAP Business Objects business intelligence suite.    
• Troubleshoot outages and root?cause analysis, across multiple platforms and coordinate activities across multiple teams to resolve outages.   
• Provide technical knowledge for Enterprise?wide reporting platform. 
• Support the ongoing installations, upgrades, maintenance, and support of the agency’s enterprise reporting platform solutions. 
• Implement changes as necessary to align towards service goals (Service Level Agreements – SLA’s) and direction. 
• Maintain Business Objects Platform, identify bugs in code and providing temporary workarounds and permanent solutions. Work with vendors on support issues. 
• Diagnose and resolve platform performance issues. 
• Coordinate, plan and execute software upgrades in support of OFM Data Management supported Business Intelligence and Analytics platforms. 
• Design and develop Business Object Universes (semantic data model) solutions for statewide data systems. 
• Coordinate with Server and Network teams to install/deploy, configure and monitor the OFM business intelligence platforms. 
• Design sound platform as work performed directly impacts the availability and correctness of the state’s financial accounting, state payroll, general ledger, and enterprise budgeting systems data. 
• Provide technical consulting to other teams, divisions, or projects on an ad?hoc basis, using technical knowledge of how the state systems interact, and knowledge of the technical frameworks underpinning them, this role consults to other teams on technical issues regarding Business Intelligence platforms.

Required Qualifications:

• Three years of experience providing server administration support of an enterprise platform.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related area such as mathematics, engineering, data and business intelligence design (Additional related professional experience may substitute for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis).

Desired Qualifications:

• Two years’ experience with SAP Business Objects BI platform
• Supporting a large enterprise platform with on? call support of technical infrastructure trouble shooting at a technical advanced level.  
• Supporting large enterprise scale business intelligence platform, analytical and reporting solutions.

How to apply:
Interested? We would love to hear from you. Click “Apply” at the top of this page to start your application (you can save the application and come back to it, if needed).

To be considered for this position, please include the following along with your application:

• Letter of interest: describing your specific qualifications.
• Resume:  that details your applicable experience and education.
• References: at least three professional references with current telephone numbers.

We will directly contact the top candidates to interview for this position. Because we base our selection on the information you provide, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills and abilities that address the required and desirable qualifications we described above.
 
Questions: 
For questions about this recruitment or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email Janet at TalentAcquisition@ofm.wa.gov. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388. 

The Office of Financial Management is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of disability, persons over 40 years of age, and disabled and Vietnam-era veterans are encouraged to apply. Dial 711 to reach the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf system.

Salary : $83,268 - $111,984