Associate BI Developer - Confluent

Introduction
At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.
Your Role And Responsibilities
We’re looking for a BI Developer / Analytics Engineer to accelerate analytics for Finance, Field Operations and adjacent GTM stakeholders including Sales, Customer Success, and partner-facing teams.
This role is ideal for someone who combines strong business intuition with modern analytics engineering craft. You will partner closely with business stakeholders, Data Scientists, and Data Engineers to translate business questions into trusted datasets, production-grade transformations, semantic definitions, and high-quality dashboards or self-serve analytics experiences.
Successful candidates will bring strong SQL and data modeling skills, a product mindset for analytics, and the ability to balance speed with reliability, governance, and scale.
What You'll Do
Partner with stakeholders across Field Operations, Sales, Customer Success, and related teams to understand business processes, define metrics, and translate requirements into scalable analytics solutions.
Build and maintain trusted datasets, reusable data models, and semantic definitions using SQL-first analytics engineering practices on top of the warehouse.
Develop and maintain production-grade ELT workflows and transformations using tools such as BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, and Git-based development practices.
Provide analytical insights for MBRs/QBRs through deep dives, proactively identify data and process gaps and fixing them
Deliver high-quality dashboards and self-serve analytics experiences using BI and analytics tools such as Tableau, Hex, and emerging semantic-layer or modern BI platforms where relevant.
Improve data quality, governance, and observability by driving documentation, testing, lineage, access controls, and root-cause analysis in partnership with Data Engineering and platform owners.
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
3+ years of experience in BI, analytics, or analytics engineering roles, with strong hands-on dexterity of data modeling, SQL development, analysis and dashboard/reports delivery.
Strong sense of ownership , proactive communication to understand and drive cross timezone partnership with both upstream and downstream stakeholders
Expert SQL skills and solid experience working with modern cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks; experience with dbt and orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect is strongly preferred.
Proven experience building scalable semantic models, trusted datasets, or curated reporting layers that improve self-serve analytics and metric consistency.
Experience with BI and analytics tools such as Tableau, Hex, Looker, Power BI, or similar, with the ability to choose the right serving layer for the business use case.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and convert ambiguous business needs into well-governed analytical solutions
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
Experience in B2B SaaS, especially in GTM, customer, product usage, or financial analytics domains.
Python coding skills to create optimized re-usable data functions, API integrated solutions
Experience working with CRM and business systems data such as Salesforce, finance systems, product telemetry, or customer/account data models
.Experience of driving /executing critical BI or Cloud services migration and best practices involved
Curiosity and awareness about AI-assisted analytics workflows, conversational analytics, and the future of governed self-serve data experiences.
Familiarity with analytics governance practices such as RBAC, sensitive data controls, metric standardization, semantic layer design, and trusted dataset certification.
Experience with data quality and observability tooling, performance optimization, or cost-aware warehouse design

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