BI Software Engineer I

What you will be doing

• Participate in all phases of the BI software development lifecycle by supporting ongoing efforts, troubleshooting issues as they arise, and delivering new modules across multiple small to mid-size projects.
• Lead the design of selected software components and propose new frameworks, applications, and features driven by industry trends.
• Consult with process owners to review requirements and translate them into effective systems.
• Support integration efforts to merge BI platforms with enterprise systems and applications.
• Collaborate with a diverse team and mentor junior BI software engineers.
• Serve as the primary contact and lead support for multiple BI applications.
• Play a key role in supporting the application lifecycle from design through testing, release, and ongoing support under direction from senior BI engineers and leads.
• Work with technical and business leaders and product owners to capture requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain a variety of reports, dashboards, and visualizations, and design BI applications that connect to databases and data warehouses.
• Analyze data to identify discrepancies and performance bottlenecks and apply data modeling techniques to enable actionable insights.
• Contribute to data-driven decision making by translating data into analytical solutions and recommendations.
• Support mission-critical applications, assist in resolving customer issues, and produce clean, well-documented code adhering to coding standards.
• Triage production issues and collaborate with multiple teams to analyze and resolve problems.
• Assign and review work for junior and offshore BI engineers and participate in new hire interviews.
• Influence the discovery and decision-making process when changes to standards, tools, conventions, and design patterns are required.
• Provide business support by addressing user questions, concerns, and implementation feasibility discussions.
• Communicate status and issues to team members and stakeholders, working with project teams and cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and smooth hand-offs.
• Ensure solutions are sustainable across implementations and use, troubleshoot open issues, perform bug fixes, and maintain on-time delivery.

Penske responsibilities

• Act as the primary contact and lead support for multiple BI applications.
• Play a critical role across the application lifecycle, guided by senior BI engineers and leads, including design, development, testing, release, and support.
• Collaborate with technical and business leaders and product owners to gather requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and visualizations to support data analysis.
• Design BI applications with integration to databases and data warehouses, and support enterprise-wide BI platform integrations.
• Analyze data for discrepancies and performance issues and apply data modeling methods to enable data-driven decisions.
• Provide support for mission-critical applications and assist in resolving customer issues.
• Deliver clean, maintainable code that aligns with coding standards and best practices.
• Triage production issues and coordinate problem analysis with multiple teams.
• Assign and review work for junior and offshore BI engineers and participate in new hire interviews.
• Influence standards and technology choices, including tools, conventions, and design patterns.
• Respond to user questions and issues with feasible technical and implementation guidance.
• Communicate status and issues to team members and stakeholders, ensuring collaboration across project teams.
• Ensure long-term sustainability of solutions and manage on-time delivery and hand-offs.

Penske qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent software development experience.
• 5-7 years of technology experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on BI application development using tools such as Qlik Sense, Power BI, Tableau, or similar.
• Experience with the full BI software development lifecycle.
• Proficiency in Java, React, Angular, jQuery, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, APIs, and web services.
• Familiarity with UI/UX design frameworks and patterns.
• Experience in relational database design, implementation, and data modeling techniques.
• Understanding of big data analytics and reporting, with exposure to cloud environments such as AWS.
• Experience with data-driven testing approaches and analytical methods, including regression models and advanced analytics software.
• Knowledge of technical project management and BI design frameworks and patterns.
• Awareness of industry-wide technology strategies and best practices.
• Experience with Agile methodology and strong troubleshooting abilities.
• Ability to research emerging software development frameworks and tools, and estimate medium to large projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Technologies

• Qlik Sense
• Power BI
• Tableau
• Java
• React
• Angular
• jQuery
• HTML
• JavaScript
• CSS
• APIs
• Web services
• AWS

Location

Reading, PA onsite at 100 Gundy Drive