- Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled MicroStrategy Developer with 5+ years of experience to join our Big Data Team. This role is responsible for platform stability, operational controls, performance monitoring, and incident management of the MicroStrategy environment. This position does not involve development or UAT activities, but instead ensures the health, security, and availability of the MSTR platform within a Cloudera-based ecosystem. A working knowledge of Cloudera and Informatica workflows is expected to effectively coordinate with adjacent data teams.
- Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day MicroStrategy platform operations, including services monitoring, job failures, caching, and security audits.
- Administer user roles, access provisioning, license usage, and platform permissions.
- Proactively monitor system health, troubleshoot platform issues, and lead incident resolution with minimal downtime.
- Coordinate with Infrastructure and DevOps teams for patching, upgrades, backup/restore, and platform scaling.
- Collaborate with Informatica and Cloudera teams to ensure upstream data availability and platform integration.
- Maintain operational dashboards, logs, audit trails, and issue documentation.
- Automate recurring tasks using scripts or tools (where possible).
- Ensure compliance with governance, security, and data access policies for all reporting environments (DEV, QA, PROD).
- Provide L2/L3 operational support for the MicroStrategy ecosystem.
- Support deployment coordination and scheduling with the separate MSTR Development team.
- Job Requirements
· 5+ years of hands-on experience managing MicroStrategy platform operations and development
· In-depth knowledge of MSTR architecture, services, and administrative tools along with Version Control and Upgrades.
· Proven track record of platform monitoring, incident resolution, and performance tuning.
· Understanding of Cloudera ecosystem (Hive, HDFS, Impala) for data dependency mapping.
· Familiarity with Informatica workflows and integration checkpoints.
· Strong scripting skills for automation (Shell, Python preferred).
· Excellent problem-solving, documentation, and communication abilities.
· Experience in enterprise-scale deployments and managing secure, multi-tenant environments.
The following are plus:
· Exposure to ticketing and monitoring tools
· MicroStrategy certifications in Administration or System Management.
· Experience with Linux-based environments and basic networking concepts.
· Familiarity with cloud-hosted BI platforms is a plus (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Education Requirements
Bachelor degree in computer science, Information technology software engineering or related field.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 24 months
Pay: AED15,000.00 - AED25,000.00 per month
