Sr. Software Developer

Job Description

WHO WE ARE

Come join our Technology Team and start reimagining the future of the automotive aftermarket. We are a highly motivated tech-focused organization, excited to be amid dynamic innovation and transformational change. Driven by Advance’s top-down commitment to empowering our team members, we are focused on delighting our Customers with Care and Speed, through delivery of world class technology solutions and products.

We value and cultivate our culture by seeking to always be collaborative, intellectually curious, fun, open, and diverse. You will be a key member of a growing and passionate group focused on collaborating across business and technology resources to drive forward key programs and projects building enterprise capabilities across Advance Auto Parts.

The Opportunity

Join the AAP team and start reimagining the future of automotive retail. Disrupt the way consumers buy auto parts and take on the industry’s biggest challengers to execute on AAP's top-down commitment to digital expansion.

As a member of the Advance Auto Parts team, you will have an opportunity to disrupt a $150B auto parts industry to bring better and faster solutions to customers. You will be part of a team helping the company live its mission of “Advancing a World in Motion”. The role is part of a merit-based organization with a culture of professional growth and development, and emphasis on the latest tools, platforms and technologies.

Job Summary

• Design and build stunning and creative front-end user experiences in PBI with an emphasis on big data visualization and analytics
• Ensure delightful user experience through fast, interactive and attractive data visualization and story telling
• Develop answers to complex business questions through data analysis, applying various techniques and methods
• Apply a healthy combination of technical skills and business acumen, to translate data into business insights to support data driven decision making
  
  

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop, construct, test and maintain a variety of data explorations, data wrangling, and data visualizations using Power BI, including working with stakeholders to capture requirements and feedback.
• Develop UX designs to be followed from both PBI developers and self-service community
• Work with data architects to facilitate technical design of complex data sourcing, transformation and aggregation logic, ensuring business analytics requirements are met.
• Guide and support other Power BI developers with technical expertise and advice
• Develop best practices and standards around Power BI Development
• Process, cleanse, and verify data-integrity for analysis. Analyze data for errors and inconsistencies.
• Thoroughly document logic and certification using Confluence and Collibra.
  
  

Required Professional And Technical Expertise

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of end-to-end experience in working with data; including data discovery, data integration, data analysis, data manipulation, data optimization, row-level security, and creation of reports & visualizations
• Extensive experience building complex DAX functions, SQL scripts, reports, and dashboards
• Extensive experience working with data gateway, data integration, self-service data preparation
• Experience querying/joining databases and using statistical computer languages: R, Python, SQL, SPSS, etc.
• Deeply knowledgeable in Business Intelligence Life Cycle; from data ingestion to data visualization
• Knowledgeable in Agile software development and DevOps methodologies. Ability to estimate technical requirements and break down work to user stories and tasks. Familiarity with version control tools (Github, Bitbucket, etc) & JIRA is a plus.
• Has strong presentation and collaboration skills and can communicate all aspects of the job requirements, including the creation of formal documentation
• Independent. Strong critical thinking, decision making, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills while also being able to provide regular status updates and identify blockers & solutions.
• Go-Getter. Possesses strong, planning, execution and multitasking skills and demonstrated ability to reprioritize accordingly. Must be able to manage quickly changing priorities while meeting deadlines.
  
  

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