Responsibilities:
Designs, automates and manages data visualization leveraging Splunk
Analyzes information requirements of customers and support teams and determines the best technical solutions
Collaborates with business and technical partners to understand and evaluate their needs for data from Splunk
Works closely with the Solution Architect to define/evolve the data storage architecture and data transformation architecture sections of the solution architecture
Mentors other staff in the delivery of services and problem resolution.
Designs, automates, and manages the acquisition, transformation, and data loading processes in a high volume, high availability, data analytics environment.
Manages data pipelines and code repos and investigates/resolves failures.
Architects, design, and implement state-of-the-art data analytics architecture.
Provides production support to solve immediate problems.
Analyzes information requirements of customers and support teams and determines the best technical solutions.
Collaborates with business and technical partners to understand and evaluate their needs for data.
Works closely with the Solution Architect to define/evolve the data storage architecture and data transformation architecture sections of the solution architecture.
Mentors other staff in the delivery of services and problem resolution
Develops unit test cases.
Performs and reports on unit testing.
Incorporates security requirements into the design.
Develops functional and technical specification documents.
Implements data storage procedures and data retention policies.
Data transformation architecture
Deliver solutions using agile sprint methodology.
Participate in daily stand-up meetings.
Mandatory Education/Certifications:
University Degree in Administration, Computer Science, System Analysis or related study
Post-secondary education in support of computer technology
Desired Education/Certifications:
Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
Other related Splunk certificates an asset
Mandatory Experience:
6+ years' experience working with Splunk, Splunk ES \& Splunk ITSI.
Desired Experience:
4+ years' experience working with Splunk ES (Enterprise Security module)
2+ years' experience with building dashboards, analytics and mobile Splunk reports.
2+ years' experience integrating Splunk data into other Analytics platforms such as Azure \& Power BI.
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Deliverables:
Splunk Solution Delivery
Contribute through participation in agile development of project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing, and ongoing support of systems
Analysis
Identify gaps between project requirements and available data.
Assess security requirements
Collect business metadata information
Identify required tasks and provide estimates of effort
Detailed Requirements Definition
Prepare design requirement specification documents.
Identify feasibility and impacts on the current environment.
Ensure that best practices are followed
Operational Support \& Testing
Development test cases for reports and dashboards
Build
Build reports and dashboards by following best practices.
Create \& document technical metadata definition for each object in our data sets
Execute the unit test plan and provide results reports
Manages the report generation processes and investigates/resolves failures
General
Demonstrated record of continuous improvement
Demonstrated experience building dashboards, reports or data-driven solutions.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Experience using Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, SAP Business Warehouse, Splunk or equivalent analytics technology.