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Short Description:

Utilize data to determine market and business trends for companies to increase profits and efficiency. Gather data from various defined sources, from mining a company’s computer data through software looking at competitor data and industry trends to help develop a picture of where the company stands in the industry, where they can improve, and where they can reduce costs.

Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Analyze competitive market strategies by analyzing related products, markets, or share trends.
  • Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
  • Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends.
  • Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
  • Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.
  • Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
  • Analyze technology trends to identify markets for future product development or to improve sales of existing products.
  • Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
  • Identify or monitor current and potential customers using business intelligence tools.
  • Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
  • Maintain a library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets.
  • Create business intelligence tools or systems, including the design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.
  • Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs.
  • Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.

Skills / Requirements / Qualifications

  • Database Management System Software: Amazon DynamoDB; Apache Hive; Elasticsearch; Oracle PL/SQL 
  • Database User Interface and Query Software: Airtable; Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2; IBM DB2; Transact-SQL 
  • Development environment software: Apache Kafka; Go; Microsoft PowerShell; Ruby 
  • Object or Component Oriented Development Software: C#; jQuery; Scala; Swift 
  • Web Platform Development Software: Apache Tomcat; Django; JavaScript Object Notation JSON; Microsoft ASP.NET 

Job Zones

  • Education: Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
  • Related Experience: A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. 
  • Job Training: Employees in these occupations usually need years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, or vocational training.
  • Job Zone Examples: Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, teachers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
  • Specific Vocational Preparation in years: 2-4 years of preparation (7.0 to < 8.0)

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