Business Intelligence Engineer at Salt South Africa

We’re looking for people who:

• are decisive
• are continuously learning & improving
• think big
• are proactive
• obsess about the customer and the customer experience
• are accountable
• collaborate
• are trustworthy, approachable and open minded
• simplify processes and solve complexity

If that sounds exciting to you, then you may be right for this role, and ready to help us build SA’s biggest and best fashion retailer.

Who you are:

• You have 3+ years of relevant working experience within the fields of Business Intelligence, and you enjoy designing and building initiatives from scratch
• You’ve completed your studies in a relevant area e.g. Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems or Engineering
• You have a sincere passion for your work in data and its importance in driving business decisions
• You’re a serious problem solver and able to dive into multiple layers of SQL and Qlik
• You’re meticulous and value data integrity, KPI definitions and processes
• You’re a great communicator and promoter of clarity - able to simplify complex concepts for audiences to consume and action into strategy
• You’re able to quickly perform critical ad hoc analysis and drive insights from raw data where self-service tools are not available
• You’re easily able to translate business requirements from diverse business stakeholders (with varying levels of experience) into actionable technical requirements
• You’re a self-starter and able to pick up new concepts quickly from online communities and other knowledge sharing sources
• You have a high level of understanding of the role of algorithms, data science or any experience in working with these types of teams

Key requirements

• 3+ years as a Business Intelligence Developer/Analyst
• Minimum 2 years’ experience with BI tools (QlikView/QlikSense, PowerBI etc)
• Minimum 2 years’ SQL experience
• High proficiency in working with large data sets and complex models

Stack experience:

• QlikSense/Qlikview - Developer and/or Designer (Critical)
• Big data e.g. BigQuery, Redshift, etc. (Advantageous)
• Analytics tools e.g. Google Analytics and Firebase (Advantageous)

What you’ll do:

• Designing, developing and testing QlikSense models to provide the business with data imported from multiple sources
• Ensuring that the QlikSense applications and server processes continue to run and operate in the most efficient manner.
• Interacting frequently with business stakeholders to gather requirements for new development projects and translating these into solutions
• Provide operational support, bug fixes, and performance enhancements as part of providing support QlikSense applications and users
• Extracting, validating and analysing data to answer strategic and operational questions posed by the business
• Automating data extraction and report update processes
• Data validation and integrity testing
• Data cleansing and data modelling
• Optimisation of data models
• Working closely with Engineering and Data Science teams
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analysis