MicroStrategy Developer

Job Title: MicroStrategy Developer

Platform Development experience is mandatory

Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid Role - Once or Twice every week meeting in Reston Office)

Duration: 6+ months Contract

VENDOR NOTES

Engineer, Software Sr (MicroStrategy Developer with Business Intelligence Reporting + AI Capability) - Hybrid Job Role DMV + West VA Local - 6 months Contract with extension - 2 Interviews (One Virtual and One In-person)

• The client is seeking a senior-level MicroStrategy Developer with 6+ years of hands-on platform experience who can design and build complex BI reporting suites—including Advanced Analytics reports, Visual Insight dashboards, Report Services Documents, transformations, nested/rolling metrics, relationship filters, and VLDB-optimized solutions - while bringing specialized expertise in MicroStrategy-to-AWS cloud migrations and integrating modern AI capabilities into BI workflows.
• The candidate must have proven MicroStrategy-to-AWS migration and AI capability-building experience, strong BI architecture and analytics-toolset expertise, and the ability to collaborate across diverse cross-functional teams to design and deploy complex data and analytics dashboards tailored to the healthcare claims industry.
• The role requires healthcare claims dashboard/reporting experience, strong SQL skills for complex queries/views/stored procedures across RDBMS, OLAP, Big Data, and cloud/database technologies such as AWS, Azure, Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, and the ability to drive the full SDLC—including complex analysis, software design, interface documentation, and debugging—to deliver scalable enterprise platforms supporting tens of thousands of users.
• The client expects full SDLC ownership - requirements gathering, technical design, coding, testing, debugging, deployment, O&M, CI/CD, agile delivery, code quality, test-first practices, and performance/scalability optimization—while serving as a subject matter expert for critical applications and demonstrating strong engineering rigor through clean source code, functional/non-functional requirement implementation, and strict adherence to code quality, cloud migration, and DevOps standards.
• The candidate should provide technical leadership and mentoring, communicate effectively and translate technical requirements across all stakeholder levels, support high-visibility production issues, help drive product scoping/roadmap/architecture discussions, train customers as needed, and act as a proactive subject matter expert who collaborates with key stakeholders to define system scope, establish baseline architectures, and implement robust automated testing frameworks that validate data results.

KEY SKILLS: MicroStrategy, Platform Development, Business Intelligence, Power BI/Power Automate, Data and Analysis (building dashboards), AI Capability, AWS Cloud, Advanced and Complex SQL and Healthcare Claims Industry

NOTE: Look for someone who is MicroStrategy Developer who has MicroStrategy Platform Development experience with hands-on BI reporting/ building dashboard expertise who can lead MicroStrategy-to-AWS migration and AI capability integration, apply strong complex SQL/BI architecture and healthcare claims domain knowledge, own the full SDLC/CI-CD/agile delivery with engineering rigor, and provide cross-functional technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder communication, and production support.

PURPOSE

Performs complex analysis, design, development, testing, and debugging of computer software ranging from operating system architecture integration and software design to selection of computer systems, language, and/or equipment. Designs, develops/codes, tests, and documents critical and complex application programs for computer systems. Works with appropriate stakeholders to define system scope and objectives and establish baselines. Establishes project standards and processes. Breaks down software requirements and creates highly complex systems.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

25% Perform technical detail design, coding, testing of applications. Serves as subject matter expert for both customer and internal discussions related to maintaining and enhancing existing software systems. Develop and/or analyze interface design documentation. Comply with hardware and software systems standards and procedures. Deliver large systems for tens of thousands of users. Comply with code quality, migration and dev/ops standards and policies

25% Performs software analysis, including requirements and uses case development and design. Implements and documents source code to design specifications. Performs software testing including developing and running automated unit tests, drafting, and executing structured automated test cases. Compile, assess, and report data results from software testing and analysis.

25% Develops software solutions for enterprise environments and other technologies. Analyzes and implements functional and non-functional (e.g. performance, availability) requirements and designs, implements, and tests software. Performs operations & maintenance (O&M) of existing systems. Identifies areas for improvement and streamlining. Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programing and integration frameworks and tools. Assist in the estimation of development of application features

25% Provides direct technical support for high level, high visibility and critical trouble calls for supported applications. Works with cross functional teams to develop highly reliable software that runs at scale. Provides recommendations to infuse new technology. Extend open-source libraries and systems as necessary to meet the needs of the team. Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions. Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices. Mentoring of junior software engineers

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Education Details: Information Technology or Computer Science

Experience: 5 years experience with software development, basic coding and compilation, software architecture/design, user requirements definition and software specification development.

In this role, the candidate will

• Collaborate with EIS stakeholders to develop functional requirements.
• Design and build complex internal reporting suites using MicroStrategy platform tools.
• Develop business intelligence applications for data analysis optimized for the best performance and scalability requirements using MicroStrategy.
• Deliver high quality business intelligence solutions for our customers
• Lead testing and deployment of the solution to ensure it meets business requirements.
• Take ownership of cross team issues and delivery issues including pro-actively communicating across teams to coordinate activities.
• Interact with customer to understand their feedback and provide assistance and training when and where necessary.

Required

• 6+ years of recent, hands-on, MicroStrategy Platform experience, including: Advanced Analytics Reports, Visual Insight Dashboards and Report Services Document creation.
• Fluent in SQL and able to read and write complex queries, views and stored procedures.
• Experience in core Business Intelligence/ Data warehousing technology: RDBMS, Web, Client/ Server, OLAP, etc.
• Experience with Big Data environments (Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, etc.)
• Experience working with capturing reporting on Current and Historical Data.
• Experience working with Transformations, Complex reports, Report Services Documents (Dashboards), Rolling Metrics, Nested Metrics, Relationship Filters, VLDB Properties (multi-pass sql, hints, etc)
• Strong technical and non-technical problem solving skills
• Healthcare Claims Industry Experience
• Good communication skills required (verbal and written)
• Familiarity with Agile development processes

In Lieu of Education

In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise., Advanced

Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships., Advanced

Knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC)., Advanced

Proficient with integrating complex and/or existing systems., Advanced

Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, C, Python, etc.)., Advanced

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal., Advanced

Knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure), Proficient

Knowledge of database technologies (e.g. cloud, SQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, etc.), Advanced

Fundamental knowledge of software engineers’ best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, Advanced

Knowledge of test-first practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD) for unit tests and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) for automated acceptance tests, Advanced

Strong experience with Deployment/Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/ Continuous Delivery processes and tools and have expertise in CI/CD tools and framework, Advanced

Knowledge of Code quality and promotion practices, Advanced

The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs. Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time. Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer