BI Technical Architect

The BI technical architect holds responsibility for architecting the BI environment. Critical to this role is the need to interface with both operations and technical personnel to ensure the integrity of the BI environment. Selection and use of monitoring tools is essential in supporting

the long-term inventory management function associated with a production BI environment.

Responsibilites

Assess current technical architecture.

Estimate system capacity to meet near- and long-term processing requirements.

Define BI strategy/processes for:

Operations

Technical architecture

Definition of technical architecture for BI environment

Hardware requirements

DBMS requirements

Middleware requirements

Network requirements

Server configurations

Client configurations

Estimate costs for technical components.

Develop ETL technical architecture.

Evaluate and select ETL tool.

Develop access/analysis tool technical architecture.

Evaluate and select access/analysis tools.

Interface with DBA staff.

Interface with systems operations staff.

Work with data designer and the ETL architect to determine space requirements.

Monitor BI usage capture and maintenance of metrics.

Develop and manage the BI dependency plan, job scheduling and cycle management.

Develop disaster recovery strategy.

Determine and ensure execution of backup and recovery strategy.

Ensure execution of archival strategy.

Continue to investigate and evaluate emerging BI technologies.

Define and get agreement with support and IT operations personnel on service level agreements.