Description: 1-2 year Fixed Term Contract Role for a Senior Reporting analyst with a Large Financial Services Company based in Dublin City Centre.
Skills : Excel, SQL, VBA , MS Access & Business Intelligence.
The successful candidate will assist in the development, maintenance and distribution of information & reports to a large and diverse audience across the Group. Using the latest Business Intelligence and Database technologies and applications, the role requires a strong focus on providing timely and accurate reporting to a demanding customer base.

Key Responsibilities:
• Produce a timely, accurate and comprehensive MI reporting suite, and supplementary analysis to provide insights on key metrics and respond to subsequent actions for further investigation.
• Respond to regular and ad hoc requests for reports and data from stakeholders and Regulatory bodies.
• Develop new reports in an efficient and flexible production environment.
• Resolve business issues using data analysis and present back meaningful and actionable information to relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to new MI projects as they arise.

Essential Requirements:
• Background with a significant numerical or quantitative element with experience in relational databases, with an advanced proficiency SQL.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Access & MS Excel with a very good understanding of VB/VBA.
• Experience working with large datasets from multiple sources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Very strong Business/Systems Analyst skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team. Ability to deliver and achieve results within demanding timescales.

Desirable Requirements:
• The ability to translate business issues into the appropriate analysis and then communicate the results of that analysis back to the business.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to work effectively with colleagues from different disciplines across the business and credit management functions.
• Credit, finance or risk reporting experience.
• Experience working with reporting tools would be an advantage.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new skills and tools.

This role is offering a very attractive Salary & package to the right candidate
Apply to Nollaig@eolas.ie for full details.

Description: Data Warehouse Modeller required for Permanent role based in Cork with Top Financial Services Company.

The Job:
The primary purpose of the role is to implement a Data Warehouse environment to meet the clients reporting requirements alongside a number of operational deliverables. This will include the development and maintenance of a Logical Data Model which will be built to house the data estate. The successful candidates will work with business users and DBA’s to expand the warehouse to meet the business requirements.

Reporting to the IT Delivery Manager, the successful candidate will:
• Interpret accurately and contribute to the requirements as presented by the business
• Adhere to IT Project Methodology and standards
• Work with a team to ensure quality assurance
• Take ownership and responsibility for the tasks assigned to them
• Set and adhere to challenging deadlines
• Be familiar with all aspects of a development lifecycle

The Person
The ideal candidate will have:
• Proven experience in a Teradata data warehouse environment
• A comprehensive understanding of both dimensional and normalised data modelling techniques
• An ability to interpret detailed business requirements for BI systems and design logical and physical data models to support these requirements.
• Experience designing data models for an enterprise data warehouse system or a departmental data mart or both – ideally in the financial services industry.

They will also possess the following competencies:
• Drive for Results
• Planning & Organising
• Team Work and Cross Functional Collaboration
• Problem Solving & Decision Making

This is an excellent opportunity for a great Client based in Cork.
Attractive salary and benefits package on offer for the right candidate.
Apply now to Nollaig@eolas.ie for more details.

Skills: Data Warehouse, Data Analyst, Modeller, Business Intelligence, Teradata.

Description: A business Analyst is required for a Top Financial Services Company based in Cork to work in the delivery and support of a Data Warehouse project. This is a permanent role.
The Job of Business Analyst:
This individual will work in a new project to implement a Data Warehouse environment to meet the companies reporting requirements alongside a number of operational deliverables. They will be responsible for the establishment of process and procedures for provisioning new data into this environment, the maintenance of control tables and quality assurance of the data being loaded into the environment. In addition they will work when required with the business to drive out their requirements from conception to delivery.
Reporting to the IT Solutions Manager the successful candidate/ BA will:
• Interpret accurately and contribute to the requirements as presented by the business
• Analyse existing and “to be” system functionality
• Adhere to IT Project Methodology and standards
• Project lead developments from requirements to implementation
• Co-ordinate various group project activities
• Assist in the production of business cases
• Work with a team to ensure quality assurance
• Take ownership and responsibility for the tasks assigned to them
• Set and adhere to challenging deadlines
• Be familiar with all aspects of a development lifecycle

The Person:
The ideal candidate will ideally have experience in Business / Systems Analysis and project management with experience of working on data warehouse implementation. They will also possess the following skills and knowledge:
• An ability to learn and understand complex business processes
• A positive and favourable approach to change
• An ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines on their own initiative in a demanding environment
• An ability to demonstrate an organised and systematic approach to work
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work with others building and maintaining strong professional relationships
• Understanding of emerging technologies and systems including mainframe, PC, Web, Mobile applications, databases & environments
• Strong PC skills with a knowledge of MS Office products

• A formal business analysis qualification (e.g. PRINCE, ISEB Business analysis) whilst not mandatory, would be a distinct advantage.

This is an excellent opportunity to get exposure to a large Data Warehousing Project.
Skills: Business Analyst, Data Warehouse

Attractive Salary and benefits package on offer.

Apply now to Nollaig@eolas.ie for full details.



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Description: Permanent role available for a Senior DW Developer Based in Dublin Central.
This role requires significant interaction with stakeholders and management to define and implement a Data Warehouse environment that encompasses all stages of the Data Warehouse, including strategic decision support, advanced analytics, tactical decision support, and active, event driven decision support strategies. This includes corresponding logical and physical data models, as well as high availability and disaster recovery strategies. The successful candidate should be passionate about data warehousing, have experience through all aspects of the Standard Development Life Cycle and can exploit existing and emerging technologies in the design and implementation of the Data Warehouse and business intelligence reporting environment.
We are seeking a candidate who thinks strategically and acts tactically by laying out the technology vision and supporting day to day initiatives through thought leadership.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
• Design, development and test guidance for the Operational Data Store, Data Ware House model design, ETL/ELT architecture & design, BI solutions, and DW infrastructure
• Interface with business stakeholders/business analysts to gather DW requirements and translate business requirements into data needs
• Be hands-on individual contributor to design and develop data models, design and develop ETL/ELT as necessary
• Design and develop real-world use case scenarios for the warehouse that can be translated into test requirements.
Key Skills & Attributes:
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead remote resources
• Superb oral/written communication skills
• 7 Year experience in Data Warehouse ETL/ELT Development
• 5 Years experience in Data Modeling for Data Warehouse
• 3 years experience as Data Warehouse technical development role
Basic Qualifications:
• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
Advanced knowledge of SQL including complex stored procedures, functions, query optimization, indexing strategy
• Experience with overall DW infrastructure capacity planning and scaling
• Proven track record in delivering scalable and reliable DW solutions.
• Strong data modeling and dimensional modeling skills (including slowly changing dimensions
• Experience with data quality and data profiling
ELT design and development experience
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experienced in designing, building and maintaining 10+ TB DW systems a plus
• Experience with Java
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions is a plus
• Experience with BI tools is a plus
Apply to peter@eolas.ie for more details.
Salary on offer circa €60-70K plus benefits.

Description: My client a large Financial firm is looking for 2-3 Junior Developers who are interested in moving into the field of Database Development/ Data Warehousing etc.
Role Description:-
The candidate will be involved in the design and development of multiple applications in an agile environment. The candidate will bring their growing skills in software engineering to contribute to the development of these applications.
Candidates will be required to work closely with our development team as well as with our business customers, providing an excellent opportunity to develop your skills further in a fast-paced highly technical environment as well as learn first-hand in our financial environment. With an ongoing commitment to learning, there is plenty of opportunity to enhance and grow your abilities within the company.
On the job Training will be provided
Key Qualifications
• B.Sc. in a technical discipline preferably computer science, Information Systems or related.
• 1-3 years commercial experience in software development (java, c#, .net, sql, unix, xml etc).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interacting with Business and IT teams.
• Passion for learning and technology, and a record of outstanding abilities both academically and in prior experience.
Responsibilities
•Support all stages of a development lifecycle including requirements, specifications, design, development and implementing solutions following development standards
•Develop, execute and document Unit and Integration tests to ensure code is delivered to specification.
•Support executions of all test phases and where necessary prepare the required IT environments.
•Achieve highly efficient performance in all solutions.
•Implement quality assured solutions adhering strictly to IT standards.
•Provide technical expertise across all phases of the software development lifecycle including analysing customer requirements, developing functional and technical specifications, designing, building testing and implementing Abinitio projects.
Skills
• Experience in full software development lifecycle
• Experience of working in large development teams
• 1-3 years commercial experience in software development languages
• Strong team player and communication skills, ability to work on multiple projects concurrently
• Excellent communication and business engagement skills
Advantageous
• Experience working with ETL Products Abinitio, Datastage or Informatica
• Working Knowledge of Unix and SQL
• Database Development or DBA experience
• Data Warehousing Development experience
Please contact Peter Kirby ASAP if you are interested.