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Department: Consulting Services
Location: , US

Basic Function: MicroStrategy Consultants empower customers to make more informed decisions by providing timely, relevant, and accurate answers to their business questions.  To achieve this mission, Consultants work to understand business needs and technical requirements, and design and implement high value solutions in the MicroStrategy platform.  MicroStrategy Consultants are an integral part of the world's largest staff of MicroStrategy Certified Engineers and leverage knowledge and best practices across our global team for customer success.  MicroStrategy Professional Services' Career Path provides growth opportunities at all levels within the organization.  Senior Consultants demonstrate well-developed technical and business leadership, developing trusted customer relationships and providing technical oversight to large project teams. Senior Consultants leverage their deep experience and highly effective communication skills to provide critical and constructive guidance to customers, steering them towards a long term vision for success.

Job Duties (include but are not limited to): 

• Delivers billable consulting services.  Efforts may be directed toward various MicroStrategy and / or supporting products and services
  
• Ensures a solid understanding of business objectives associated with projects and/or programs to which he or she is assigned
  
• Defines a project approach to ensure customer and MicroStrategy account success.  Provides critical and constructive guidance to customers, steering them towards a long term vision for success
  
• Creates technical and / or functional designs to support the customer requirement and business objective Scope may include standalone applications or more complex interdependent systems
  
• Leads and / or participates in implementation activities
  
• Provides technical oversight for large project teams, including customers and partners
  
• May assume selected engagement management responsibilities, with supervision
  
• Provides support to the Services management team, helping to scope and estimate the engagement
  
• Communicates effectively with team members both internally and with customers and partners, including at the executive level
  
• Leverages and extends MicroStrategy best practices for service delivery
  
• Applies methodology effectively in a wide variety of situations, and adapts methodology to new situations
  
• Mentors junior colleagues
  
• May be called upon to deliver classroom training for internal audiences
  
• Develops an awareness of the competitive landscape including key differentiators and competitive positioning
  
• Effectively demonstrates influence towards positive outcomes, internally and externally with customers
  
• Works within an internal sphere of influence typically bounded by project or regional activities
  
• Facilitates the team taking ideas from concept through full deployment
  
• Actively participates in internal knowledge-sharing forums

Job Requirements:

• Bachelors or equivalent degree in a business, technical, or related field
  
• 5+ years of industry, technology and services experience
  
• Commitment to personal and professional growth
  
• Experience designing and implementing MicroStrategy or other business intelligence solutions
  
• Demonstrated leadership ability resulting in customer success
  
• Excellent written communication and oral presentation skills
  
• Ability to work effectively independently as well as in a team environment
  
• Staffing to local projects wherever possible, however field consultants can expect periods and assignments of up to 75 - 80% travel

MicroStrategy is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Key result areas (include but not limited to):

• Deliver billable high value consulting to customers in the financial services industry
• Develop strong working relationships with customers
• Develop innovative BI business applications for traditional web and mobile deployment
• Implement and customize BI Solution packages.
• Provide coaching and training for clients on MicroStrategy’s technology in the context of financial services industry (FSI), i.e. banking, financial services, and insurance business functions
• Provide coaching and training in the context of best practice data modeling for the financial services industry
• Identify and support the development of new opportunities at customers
• Contribute to and develop best practice methodology for BI solutions and applications in FSI organizations

Knowledge & experience

• 4 – 5 years experience in BI or data warehouse departments in retail or investment banks, insurers or other financial services organizations. Alternatively similar experience with financial services / insurance clients working for system integrators or software companies
• Excellent knowledge of core financial services / insurance processes
• Expert level knowledge of BI and DW concepts in the context of financial services / insurance business
• Proven track record of successful delivery of financial services / insurance BI applications
• BI subject matter expertise in at least two areas like risk management & Basel II / Solvency II, asset liability management, branch management, credit cards & loans, investment banking, claims, underwriting, policy services, customer insight / CRM, financial planning and management
• Excellent knowledge of financial services / insurance DW data models and ETL processes, e.g. IBM BDW, FSLDM or IIW, SAP Asset Management, BASEL II requirements
• Expert level knowledge of data base systems like Teradata, Oracle, DB/2, MS SQL Server, Sybase IQ or equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Competencies:

• Excellent consulting, networking and team working skills
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent BI application architecture and design skills
• Very good financial services data modeling skills
• High levels of social perceptiveness and customer service
• Self driven, motivated and results oriented