B.I Architect - Umhlanga at BET Software

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8-10 years’ experience in the technical lead role.
• Experience in end-user report development.
• Proven ETL experience using SSIS.
• Hands-on experience in designing, prepping, configuring, installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining complete BI Solutions.
• Identify and resolve data reporting issues.
• Ability to create efficient T-SQL objects and processes according to spec (databases, tables, stored procedures, business rules, and functions).
• Advanced experience in T-SQL query optimisation, troubleshooting, and debugging.
• In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing, and ETL framework.
• Advanced knowledge of the Kimball data warehouse lifecycle.
• Expert data warehousing experience using fact tables, dimensions, and indexing.
• Experience in table partitioning and efficient data migration.
• Expert experience in creating and maintaining multidimensional cubes using SSAS.
• Relevant management certification may be required.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and organisational abilities.
• Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.

What You’ll Do:

Data Architecture and Design

• Design and define the overall architecture of the BI system, including data models, data flows, and integration points.
• Develop and maintain a structured data warehouse that facilitates efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Work with other developers, designers/analysts, and architects to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Ensure checked-in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met and the code base is sound.
• Implement and configure BI Tools for reporting, visualisation, and analytics.

Database Management

• Oversee the management of databases, ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability.
• Implement data governance policies and standards to maintain data quality and consistency.
• Ensure that all technical solutions that are rolled out consider compatibility with other environments and dependencies; have a high usability factor; are reliable to reduce downtime and perform at maximum efficiency during peak periods of usage; consider security at its highest level (third-party attacks; data protection etc).
• Drive the adoption of processes within the team that consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; effective resource utilisation during operation and where the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity requirements are met.

ETL Development

• Design and implement ETL processes to extract data from various sources, transform it into a suitable format, and load it into the data warehouse.
• Ensure data integration and transformation processes align with business requirements.
• Create and maintain data models that represent the relationships and structures of the organisations data.
• Work with stakeholders to understand their reporting and analysis needs and translate them into effective data models.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support load.
• Where possible work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyse its faults and provide reports before a critical failure.
• Develop the solution in a manner that supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the number of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

Security and Performance Optimisation

• Ensure the delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution that covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been tested thoroughly.
• Optimise the performance of BI solutions, including query optimisation, indexing, and data partitioning.
• Implement security measures to protect sensitive business data.
• Define and enforce access controls, ensuring that users have appropriate levels of access to data.
• Conduct regular maintenance activities to ensure the ongoing reliability and efficiency of the BI Infrastructure.

Initiative and Innovation

• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in the field.
• Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team’s performance and the company bottom line.
• Technical problems and opportunities are anticipated and dealt with immediately considering any technical dependencies.
• Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary work after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
• Show foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
• Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring, and implementing new knowledge and skills both within the Team and to the wider group.
• Incorporates the new abilities into the day-to-day operational activities to improve performance of products and systems.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools, and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

Knowledge Share

• Identify team members requiring a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
• Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in the transfer of the knowledge.