Overview
This Developer Analyst position is part of RealPage Delivery Planning \& Insights group, responsible for preparing, maintaining, and enhancing varieties of reports/dashboards to provide meaningful insights/foresights to different businesses in RealPage. The position will be delivering reports and analyzing the results for the businesses to help them make data\-driven decisions and eventually help satisfy/retain/attract customers.
Responsibilities
Collaboration, Communication \& Requirements
- Partner with team members and senior colleagues to deliver high\-quality outputs within agreed timelines.
- Elicit, analyze, and validate reporting and insights requirements with leads, teams, and customers.
- Produce clear documentation and communicate status, risks, and decisions effectively to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to design and tailor reports and dashboards to business needs.
- Demonstrate flexibility to support cross\-time\-zone collaboration, including early/late meetings as needed.
Data Sourcing, Transformation \& Tools
- Work with diverse data sources, including on\-prem (SQL/Oracle/file\-based) and cloud platforms (e.g., Salesforce, SharePoint, Azure).
- Acquire, cleanse, and transform data using fit\-for\-purpose approaches aligned to performance and reliability needs.
- Select and apply appropriate tools, technologies, and development practices for each deliverable.
- Develop and maintain data models by integrating relevant sources and defining consistent business logic.
- Design, develop, schedule, and monitor ETL/ELT pipelines, including incremental and full\-load patterns.
- Implement operational controls for ETL jobs (parameterization, idempotency, error handling, retries, logging, alerting, and SLA adherence).
- Perform data validation and reconciliation checks; investigate and resolve ETL failures and data\-quality issues in a timely manner.
Analysis, Insights \& Reporting
- Communicate insights and recommendations through appropriate visuals, narratives, and supporting analysis.
- Analyze datasets to identify variances, anomalies, trends, and root causes.
- Recommend appropriate data volumes, refresh strategies, and caching/storage approaches to balance performance and cost.
- Support business reviews by summarizing outcomes and packaging reports into clear presentations.
- Own recurring reporting deliverables, including scheduled refreshes, access management, and ongoing enhancements.
Quality, Process \& Issue Management
- Drive continuous improvement in solution quality, delivery efficiency, and stakeholder experience.
- Adhere to organizational standards and processes, leveraging guidance from experienced team members.
- Identify, document, and triage defects, bugs, and data issues; support resolution through to closure.
- Log, track, and communicate project risks and issues, ensuring timely escalation when required.
Knowledge Management \& Transition
- Plan and execute knowledge\-transfer activities, ensuring smooth transition and operational readiness.
- Maintain and leverage knowledge repositories to accelerate delivery and improve supportability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field
- 5\+ years of experience with MS SQL for business intelligence and analytics
- 5\+ years utilizing Power BI or similar data transformation and reporting tools
- Proficient in developing and supporting scheduled ETL/ELT jobs, including monitoring and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of data quality controls, auditability, and documentation for production pipelines
- Experience with MS Excel for data visualization and reporting
- Familiarity with Microsoft tools such as Word and PowerPoint
- Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem\-solving abilities
- Effective process documentation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
- Proven independent work and initiative
- Willingness to work overtime as needed
PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES
- Knowledge/experience in data insight/foresight with modern technologies o
+ E.g., Machine learning using any standard platform/tool (e.g, Python/R) •
- Advanced knowledge/experience (3\+ Years) using MS SQL \& SQL Reporting Services. o
+ E.g., Performance Tuning or Query Optimization techniques as per situation
- Advanced knowledge/experience (3\+ Years) with Power BI is preferred.
+ E.g., Modelling with variety of data sources \& types with custom DAX functions, RLS etc.
- Experience with ETL orchestration and scheduling tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory or similar) and implementing pipeline observability (alerts/metrics).
- Advanced knowledge in Excel and its functions in real world.
- Excellent process\-documentation skills, following ISO standards.
- Experience (3\+ Years) in managing multiple projects simultaneously, while meeting regular deadlines
- Experience in verbal and written communication with global teams.