Business Intelligence Developer (SAP BusinessObjects, Tableau & SQL)

Description & Requirements
Maximus is a trusted federal partner supporting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in delivering essential services that help taxpayers navigate and meet their tax obligations. Through innovative solutions, operational excellence, and a commitment to public service, we help the IRS enhance efficiency, improve customer experiences, and strengthen mission outcomes.
Joining Maximus means becoming part of a collaborative, mission-driven organization where teamwork, accountability, and professional growth are central to our culture. We invest in our employees through training, professional development, and career advancement opportunities, empowering our teams to deliver meaningful results while supporting one of the nation's most important public service missions.
This position is contingent upon contract award and position availability.
This position is hybrid and based in Lanham, MD. The selected candidate will be expected to work on-site as required by the business. It requires the ability to obtain and maintain an IRS Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) clearance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct requirements gathering and perform analysis to define functional specifications and technical needs.
- Develop software components using established programming, scripting, and/or database languages, ensuring alignment to coding standards.
- Troubleshoot moderately complex issues, resolve defects, and support testing, deployment, and enhancement activities.
- Participate in code reviews, adhere to source control practices, and contribute to improving team development processes.
- Recommend enhancements or adjustments to systems and processes within the job area.
Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise reporting and analytics solutions using SAP BusinessObjects and Tableau.
- Develop and support SAP BusinessObjects reports, universes, semantic layers, queries, publications, and related reporting assets.
- Design, publish, and optimize Tableau dashboards, visualizations, data sources, extracts, and reporting workbooks.
- Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and reporting requirements, including source-to-report mappings, business rules, calculations, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop, optimize, and reconcile reporting datasets, SQL queries, semantic models, and analytics solutions using Databricks, MongoDB, Amazon Redshift, and other approved data sources.
- Perform data profiling, validation, reconciliation, testing, troubleshooting, defect remediation, and performance tuning to ensure reporting accuracy, reliability, and data quality.
- Create and maintain requirements specifications, technical documentation, traceability artifacts, deployment documentation, and operational support materials while maintaining traceability from business requirements through data sources, transformations, calculations, visualizations, testing, and acceptance.
- Follow project SDLC, reporting standards, source-control practices, peer-review procedures, testing requirements, release controls, and documentation standards.
- Design BI solutions that are accurate, usable, accessible, secure, performant, supportable, and aligned with approved architecture and data-governance practices.
- Coordinate with business owners, data stewards, architects, database developers, ETL teams, cybersecurity personnel, testers, platform administrators, and operations staff to support successful solution delivery and ongoing operations.
- Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, data issues, decisions, and delivery impacts clearly to technical, business, project, and executive stakeholders.
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Management Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited college or university. Four additional years of related experience may substitute for the degree.
- Experience delivering or supporting production BI solutions in a complex enterprise environment.
- Candidate must meet contract work-authorization requirements and maintain the required IRS Moderate Risk Minimum Background Investigation clearance.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a distributed team with minimal supervision.
- Three (3) or more years of relevant business intelligence, reporting, analytics, or data-visualization development experience.
- Advanced hands-on experience developing SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports and universes using Information Design Tool or Universe Design Tool.
- Advanced hands-on experience developing Tableau dashboards, workbooks, calculations, parameters, filters, actions, published data sources, and extracts.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience analyzing data in relational databases and enterprise data warehouses, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, or comparable platforms.
- Experience with dimensional modeling, semantic-layer design, fact and dimension structures, reporting aggregates, data reconciliation, and performance optimization.
- Experience translating complex business and technical requirements into clear dashboards, reports, metrics, and executive-ready visualizations.
- Working knowledge of role-based access control, row-level security, data protection, audit logging, secure development, and federal reporting expectations.
- Experience with source control, release management, defect tracking, automated or repeatable testing, and controlled migration of BI assets across environments.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, time-management, and stakeholder-collaboration skills.
- Hands-on experience developing reporting solutions from Databricks, MongoDB, and Amazon Redshift data sources, including relational, nested, and semi-structured data.
- Experience creating formal business and technical requirements specification documents, source-to-report mappings, metric definitions, traceability matrices, testable acceptance criteria, and stakeholder-ready documentation.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 3+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- SAP BusinessObjects, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, or Tableau Certified Data Analyst certification.
- Experience with IRS business systems, Information Returns data, federal financial or operational reporting, and audit or compliance reporting.
- Experience with Amazon Redshift, Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, Databricks, SAP BusinessObjects administration concepts, Tableau Server, and cloud-hosted analytics environments.
- Knowledge of data cataloging, lineage, metadata management, data quality, accessibility, and visualization-design best practices.
- Experience modernizing legacy reports, consolidating duplicate reporting capabilities, and transitioning reporting workloads between BI platforms.
Additional Requirements per Business or Contract Needs:
- Candidates must meet requirements to obtain and maintain an IRS Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) clearance (active IRS Moderate Risk MBI clearance is a plus).
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EEO Statement
Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.
Pay Transparency
Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.
Accommodations
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Minimum Salary
$ 115,000.00
Maximum Salary
$ 135,000.00