Business Intelligence Architect - Gauteng at Growthpoint Properties

Job Purpose

• In support of the Group’s Business Intelligence ambition in the property industry you are responsible for the enhancement, adoption, and maintenance of business intelligence solutions within Growthpoint.
• These solutions span across data engineering and data science disciplines and align with the Group Enterprise Architecture guidelines and Group IT security standards with this goal in mind: Thave significant impact in the business’ capability tsupport decisions from timeous data driven insight.

Role Location

• Growthpoint Head Office in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Working Conditions

• This position is office based but allows some Flexibility. Busy periods may require extra hours tensure deadlines are met. 

Reporting Manager

• The Business Intelligence Architect reports tthe Business Solutions Technical Architect.

Direct Subordinates

• 5 Developers reports intthe Business Intelligence Architect role. 
• Budget Responsibility
• No budget responsibility. 

Duties and responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise data agenda, challenge everything in this space
• Design, build and maintain the Enterprise Data Warehouse and related solutions
• Become the expert of the group’s business data, its relationships and how it is used, evolved and delivered.
• Create and own the Enterprise Architecture (EA) artefacts that communicate the data and information perspective, such as ERDs, data dictionaries and   information flow diagrams
• Document and review solution diagrams tcommunicate technical delivery aspects of solutions
• Manage the portfoliof data solutions, including, but not limited tthe Growthpoint property model, core system reports, data integrations, audits and extractions.
• Lead a team of developers, some of which could be external tthe organisation, in the software development lifecycle for predictable delivery in the reporting and analytics areas
• Inspire, coach, motivate and develop the people that report tyou in both the technical and HR contexts
• Contribute in various fora related tinformation delivery such as Data- and Information Governance, Enterprise Architecture, BI Forum and the Business Intelligence Centre.
• Lead a weekly operations forum talign requirements, development, quality assurance, user acceptance and deployment across disciplines
• Perform and facilitate code- and peer reviews
• Perform an annual Information Management review and recommend initiatives tthe EA
• Lead vendor organisations in the co-creation of data solutions
• Develop and maintain alignment and standardisation across solutions and platforms
• Develop and maintain a consolidated roadmap for enterprise data solutions

Requirements
Experience 

• Minimum five years’ experience building enterprise data solutions
• Minimum three years’ experience in similar role
• Minimum tw0 years’ experience as a people leader

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science at honors level, or similar
• Relevant masters level degree advantageous

Competencies

Essential:

• Microsoft SQL Server and T-SQL language
• Data Modelling in a modern enterprise data warehouse context such as Synapse

Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) and Extract-Load-Transform (ELT), and data integration techniques across various technologies, including, but not limited to:

• Azure Data Factory
• Data Bricks
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Azure Logic Apps
• API’s
• ERP extraction tools
• File integration
• Data modelling and Analytics, report and visualisation with Power BI and MS Excel

Advantageous:

• Property Industry experience
• DAX
• Big Data / Data science experience
• DevOps
• Application programming and scripting
• SharePoint
• Stakeholder / Project Management

Personal Attributes

• Passion for data and analytics
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Curious- and learning mindset.
• Strong attention tdetail.
• Ability twork in a team.
• Self-starter with detail orientation; persistence and ability twork independently tdrive execution
• Strong organizational, planning and time management skills
• Effective listening and communication skills and ability tprovide essential information tstakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability twork on cross-functional teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an ability texpress complex technical concepts for business terms