DHS DCAS - MicroStrategy BI/Analyt. Sr. Dev. (756048)

Rate: $65.00/hour on W2

Work Status: US Citizen, H1B, GC or Authorized to work - Sponsorship not available DHS

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Worksite Address: Washington, DC

Duration: 02/03/2025 to 09/30/2025

Submittals due: 01/31/2025

Interviews: Webcam Only

Background check: Extensive criminal history background check will be required. We cannot submit candidates with recent histories (go back seven years) of extensive driving, drug, robbery or any other illegal activity. Any criminal activity on the background check will eliminate the candidate from consideration. If selected, please make certain that you inform all candidates that they will have to complete this criminal background check prior to starting. NATIONAL background checks are required; Federal background checks are NOT compliant under this contract. A national background check is a national criminal background check that pulls criminal records from State and County Courts in almost every US State.

Job Description:

Short Description:

The Dept of Human Services (DHS) is looking for a resource to provides assessments of technical and operational practices based on leading industry standards specific to the MicroStrategy and similar BI tools/environments to support DCAS.

Complete Description:

This is a long term position working in the DHS Economic Security Administration (ESA), Division of Data, Analytics, Research, and Evaluation (DARE) supporting the DARE and DCAS program teams in business intelligence and analytics to develop a longitudinal database.

Qualifications

• Strong Experience with MicroStrategy, familiarity with Tableau is helpful.

• Strong experience in writing SQL and good working knowledge on Oracle and SQL Server databases. Ability to perform data analysis, troubleshoot data issues in comparison to report output.

• Experience on creating highly optimized Intelligent Cubes and Incremental Refresh experience

• Experience on various features on RSDs like selectors and write-back functionalities

• Bachelor’s degree in business, management information systems, computer science, or an equivalent combination of skills, training, and experience

• Extremely good at comprehending, analyzing data and its relationships

• 2-3 years of Data Visualization experience using MicroStrategy Dossier

• Good knowledge of Data Warehousing principles, ETL processes and dimensional modeling concepts

• Excellent technical, logical, analytical, and problem-solving skills to provide insight on development and application support

• Effective verbal and written communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences

• Basic knowledge and interest in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS and React

• Must have the legal right to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• The position is responsible for the design, development, and support of DHS's DCAS Government MicroStrategy Business Intelligence platform

• The individual will be required to participate in all SDLC phases and responsible for data modeling and MicroStrategy project metadata development

• The individual will frequently interact and assist with the ad-hoc reporting and access requests from agency users

• The individual should possess skills around relationships of data, hierarchies, and hybrid data models

• The position requires production support, platform maintenance support and system enhancements support.

• The Individual is expected to have a thorough understanding of the business logic and data contained within every BI project while working on it

• Build MicroStrategy dashboards, Report Services Documents and Reports both for Web and Library that satisfy and meet organization requirements/needs

• Collaborate with other teams to define dashboards and reporting solutions to meet diverse, complex agency needs

• Experience working with Complex reports, Report Services Documents (Write-Back), Dossier (dashboards), Metrics, Filters, built-in and user defined functions like If, case, running sum, etc.

• High level of competence in creating complex Datamart reports and Transactional Datasets

• Ability to write custom SQL like self-join, nested queries to troubleshoot complex data issues

• Training Users on the BI functionality and helping them in creating basic reporting objects within MicroStrategy

• Work with agency users and be able to comprehend their requests into possible solutions using the current BI platform

• Make small code changes on MicroStrategy Plugins or Connectors

CONTRACT LABOR CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities:

1. Coordinates IT project management, engineering, maintenance, QA, and risk management.

2. Plans, coordinates, and monitors project activities.

3. Develops technical applications to support users.

4. Develops, implements, maintains and enforces documented standards and procedures for the design, development, installation, modification, and documentation of assigned systems.

5. Provides training for system products and procedures.

6. Performs application upgrades.

7. Performs, monitoring, maintenance, or reporting on real- time databases, real-time network and serial data communications, and real-time graphics and logic applications.

8. Troubleshoots problems.

9. Ensures project life-cycle is in compliance with District standards and procedures.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience

Skills

16+ yrs planning, coordinating, and monitoring project activities

16+ yrs leading projects, ensuring they are in compliance with established standards/procedures

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience

Flexible work from home options available.