Bi Engineer - Data Analytics

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Business Intelligence (BI) Engineers are responsible for designing, engineering, and developing business intelligence (BI) solutions – integrating complex data sets, queries, reports, dashboards, analyses – to answer business questions. The solutions support critical and ongoing Ecom business operations and must be available anytime on any device – laptop, desktop, mobile. BI Engineers work closely with product owners to understand business needs and then design and engineer the appropriate visualizations and analytics to solve the problem. This role also engages with BI Solution Architects and Data Architects to assist in solution design efforts including analysis, design, and architecture. BI Engineers are responsible to support the solutions during operations as needed and build appropriate enhancements

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ROLE

Assists in the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments.

Collaborates to ensure application designs utilize appropriate patterns and standards.

Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points.

Translates business needs into technical specifications to deliver customized reporting and software solutions (BI, Advanced analytics, APIs/Services).

Works in tandem with BI/Solution Architects, Data Architects, Data Stewards, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Quality Engineers to design efficient visualizations, score cards, dashboards, reports, and recommends ongoing optimization of BI data models, data sets, and data quality.

Oversees the end-to-end development and support of Costco’s BI reporting environments for ongoing metrics, reports, dashboards using Power BI, Power App, Power Automate, and other technologies as needed.

Designs and developments of proof of concepts and prototype application environments for solving business problems.

Creates data visualizations that illustrate data learnings and insights in an understandable and user-friendly manner through software UI / UX design using Power BI and other tools as needed.

Adopts and adapts to newly approved technologies, programming languages, tools, and standards for business intelligence.

Creates, refines and optimizes dashboards for reporting applications by connecting to one or many of the following: Oracle, SAP BW, SAP HANA, and Azure services such as Azure SQL DW (Synapse), ADLS, Cosmos, Databricks, Delta-Lake to improve and speed up delivery of BI solutions.

Documents BI application specifications and produces operational support manuals.

Analyzes business needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints, including the ability to estimate work needed.

Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points.

Assesses functional and nonfunctional requirements and creates designs to meet both business and technical needs.

Designs, builds, and maintains automated reporting, dashboards, and analysis to enable teams to self-service data needs.

Supports defining technical requirements such as tool or platform selection criteria for the reporting environments.

Assists in solution design efforts (i.e. analysis, data warehouse design, architecture) and understands the data warehouse or data marts implementation related to BI.

Identifies, designs, and implements internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing BI capabilities.

Identifies ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality of data management required for building BI applications and reports.

Communicates technical concepts to non-technical audiences both in written and verbal form.

Performs peer reviews for other BI engineers’ work.

REQUIRED

3+ years’ experience working with BI technologies and tools like IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau; proven and successful implementations of Microsoft Power BI.

1+ years’ using programing languages such as Java, C#, DAX, MDX, SQL, Python.

1+ years’ BI related experience using ETL, Data warehousing management, Data Mining, Report Designer or development; ability to write complex SQL queries against a variety of data sources.

2+ years’ of experience with Power BI.

Experience in using Azure cloud architecture, low code power apps, visualization technologies.

Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Recommended

Microsoft Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Power Platforms, IBM Cognos, Tableau certifications.

Azure Certifications.

Experience with Git / Azure DevOps.

BA/BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent software/services experience.

Experience delivering reporting design, visualizations, and solutions through agile software development methodologies.

Experience working with sensitive data and ecommerce/distribution/logistics business areas..

Exposure to the retail industry.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Experience with UC4 Job Scheduler or similar Job Schedulers, Power Automate toolset.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter

• Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 2 - $100,000 - $140,000

Level 3 - $130,000 - $170,000

Level 4 - $160,000 - $205,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected]

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.