Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.

Our Engineering and Analytics Team Members utilize the latest technology to develop, monitor, and maintain complex practices that help optimize our success.  Our Team Members value being challenged, are encouraged to express their ideas, and have the flexibility to enjoy work life balance.  We build intrinsic value by partnering with all functions of our business to support their success and make strategic business decisions.  We focus on professional development and continuous improvement while enjoying a casual work environment and Great Place to Work culture!

The Business Intelligence function provides the means, methods, and solutions necessary to support the efficient collection, storage, transfer, manipulation, analysis, and reporting of data, as well as the delivery of information for use by decision-makers. The Senior Business Intelligence Engineer is responsible for multiple aspects of data management and operations, including database design, business intelligence and data architecture, data analytics, governance, and quality. This role specializes in data architecture for reporting services and design expertise in data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business intelligence (BI) enterprise reporting. This position demands an advanced level of contribution based on knowledge, application, problem-solving, and collaboration. A Senior Business Intelligence Engineer possesses sufficient experience to collaborate with business partners and stakeholders, understanding business needs and processes, and transforming those discussions into design and code.

Outcomes and Activities:

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required.  However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
• Identify ways to increase the use of BI within the firm, designing end-to-end BI solutions that provide insights and information for key decision-makers.
• Design, code, test, and deliver insightful and architecturally sound business solutions around high complexity work.
• Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusion and recommend solutions.
• Consistently improve the quality and structure of the previously written code to make it more efficient.
• Document code and projects so others can easily understand, maintain, and support.
• Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of a change across multiple systems.
• Advocate best design principles and patterns within the team.
• Author, apply and advocate for team coding, documenting, and testing standards and drive continued improvements.
• Read, write, and review design documents.
• Decrease incidents and increase up-time by developing quality code and testing.
• Actively participate in developer COE discussions towards continuous improvement of design and code quality.
• Communicate application changes clearly, concisely, and objectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge.
• Learn the business process domain to better support the business.
• Lead code reviews and communicate application changes.
• Guide and review the code, designs, and documentation of less experienced engineers.
• Mentor less experienced engineers.
• Debug the problems which arise in production and propose effective solutions.
• Contribute to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in our Agile practices.

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives, pain points, and experiences of customers. It involves actively putting oneself in the customer’s shoes, comprehending their needs and challenges, and using that understanding to provide a better, more customer-centric experience.
• Engineering Excellence: Engineering Excellence is about bringing great craftsmanship and thought leadership to deliver an outstanding product that delights customers and solves for the business. This involves the pursuit and achievement of high standards, best practices, innovation, and superior solutions.
• One Team: A One Team mindset refers to a collaborative approach across the organization, where individuals work together seamlessly, without boundaries, as a single, cohesive team. Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose. This enables teams to navigate challenges and pursue shared objectives more effectively.
• Owner’s Mindset: Owner’s Mindset involves adopting a set of behaviors that reflect a sense of responsibility, accountability, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to managing your domain. As an owner, you understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 7 years of practical experience in data modeling & design and database management or comparable depth of experience
• Practical experience with and strong understanding of data modeling, data quality, messaging, and data governance practices
• Practical experience with and strong understanding of Oracle databases, AWS, SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, Power BI / OBIEE / OAC, Data Lakes and Data Warehouses, ETL
• Experience working on mission-critical enterprise class applications
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor less experienced team members
• Practical experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
• Must be able to work independently with flexibility and authority over daily work priorities.
• Must be able to collaborate with others to direct and complete assigned work.

Preferred:

• Experience with Databricks, PySpark / Python / Scala; cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure; modern data engineering tools such as Airflow or DBT
• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of engineering talent
• Ability to fully design and manage databases and use syntax to expedite results, advanced queries and convert data across incompatible interfaces
• Experience as a data engineer embedded in a team in an Agile SCRUM and DevOps delivery environment
• Advanced understanding of IDEs, have the ability to navigate through them quickly and leverage advanced features to improve your performance
• Experience with JSON, Rest/SOAP based Web Services, JUnit, Jenkins and Bitbucket
• Experience in API security, analytics, throttling, caching, logging, request, and response modifications
• Ability to use DDL to create database objects and relationships, construct advanced queries, and optimize query performance
• Financial services industry experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to challenge the status quo and influence stakeholders to create innovative solutions
• Be collaborative with other team members, seeking a diversity of thought to meet business outcomes
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input, coach team members, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership

Target Compensation: A competitive base salary range from $108,766 - $159,523.  This position is eligible for an annual variable cash bonus, between 7.5 - 15%. Final compensation within the range is influenced by many factors including role-specific skills, depth and experience level, industry background, relevant education and certifications. 

 

Candidates who reside in the following major metropolitan areas may be eligible for a premium on top of the posted range based on their specific zone: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego. 
 

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Benefits

• Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work 

Our Company Values:

To be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:

• Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions
• Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
• Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions
• Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
• Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting

Expectations:

• Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
• All other duties as assigned
• Attendance as required by department

Advice!

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