BI Developer at Vito Solutions

JOB OVERVIEW:

Guided by Architecture and a Technical Team Lead you will be responsible for establishing new technology components and reusable solution patterns that can be leveraged by business facing development teams in their day-to-day solutions. You will constantly be developing and setting new principles, standards, processes, procedures and guidelines for the wider BI community. 

You should be able to communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as be competent in communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organization will be of importance. You will also be responsible for developing data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms and integrating systems; translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions.

DESCRIPTION OF POSITION:

Delivery leadership:

• Definition of solution high level design options based on client requirements
• Solution design refinement via prototyping
• Completion of detailed design, modelling and/or data management deliverables in accordance with the organization architectural and design standards, based on architectural design guidance
• Facilitation of design trade-off decisions
• Creation of role specific design standards, patterns and principles
• Completion of deliverables required to and gaining architectural design approval (including engagement with architectural governance stakeholders and forums, presentation)

Development and engineering:

• Engineering of complex solutions leveraging and abiding by the Company and leading practice standards
• Timeous completion of all activities associated to leading practice engineering standards and release management
• Timeous completing of code reviews for of Junior developers and completion of governance and design review requirements
• Planning and completion of all tasks to land and deliver solutions (Including environment preparation, software installation, configuration etc.)
• Mentor Junior Full Stack Developers

Stakeholder engagement, and requirements definition:

• Analysing business and/or system requirements, with the assistance of key Foundation, Data Platform and/or customer team members
• Engagement with Data Platform, Architecture and Foundation, value stream stakeholders as required to analyse requirements and/or constraints
• Documentation of outcomes leveraging the company's architectural and design standards, based on architectural design guidance

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• IT Data Analysis
• Database Knowledge and Monitoring
• Data Security
• Risk Management

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 5- 8 years related experience
• Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL
• Data architecture design and delivery experience
• Database technologies (e.g. SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) and database development (Views, Functions and Stored Procedure development)
• Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala
• Object-oriented/object functional scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala or related.
• Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns) and dimensional data modelling (OLAP and MDX experience)

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:

• ETL tools (e.g. SAP Data Services)
• Event/Streaming based data pipelines (e.g. Kafka or Nifi)