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  • Posted: Aug 21, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Santam Limited is the largest short-term insurer in South Africa, with a market share in excess of 22%, providing short-term insurance products through broker networks and direct sales channels. The company was established in 1918 and offers personal, commercial, and corporate insurance solutions. Santam is a subsidiary of Sanlam Limited and has been listed ...
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    Business Intelligence Team Leader (CPT/JHB)

    The role

    • This career opportunity is available at Santam Client Solutions for the Business Intelligence Team Leader, who will be based in either Cape Town or Johannesburg

    What will you do?

    • We are looking for a hands-on Business Intelligence Team Leader to lead and grow the delivery of scalable, well-governed Power BI reporting solutions at Santam Client Solutions. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful migration of manual Excel reports to dynamic Power BI dashboards, with a strong focus on reusability, accuracy, and stability.
    • You’ll manage a small, junior BI team and work across business and IT to ensure timely, validated, and well-documented reporting assets that support decision-making. This role requires a strong mix of technical Power BI expertise, data modeling skills, and delivery management

    What will make you successful in this role?

    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Own the end-to-end Power BI development lifecycle, from Jira ticket to dashboard delivery and post deployment support.
    • Review and validate junior team members’ work to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and consistency.
    • Refactor and migrate legacy Excel reports into scalable Power BI solutions using dataflows and standardised models.
    • Set up and enforce technical documentation standards, refresh schedules, and report governance processes.
    • Build reusable dataflows and ensure a single source of truth across reports.
    • Manage the team’s Jira board and support queue, ensuring consistent prioritization and timely delivery.
    • Collaborate with Central IT to improve data access, data quality, and pipeline reliability.
    • Work directly with business leaders to understand reporting needs and deliver practical, insight-driven dashboards.
    • Act as the bridge between Business Analyst (BA) teams and the BI team to ensure clear understanding of requirements, strong technical solutioning , documentation, and alignment to business needs.
    • Drive the adoption and optimisation of Powerbi and other modern BI technologies to enhance delivery efficiency and innovation.
    • Maintain a central library of standardised calculations and ensure consistency across all reporting assets.
    • Coaching and mentoring of junior BI staff

    WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

    Technical Must-Haves

    • 5+ years of hands-on experience in Power BI development in enterprise environments
    • Strong proficiency in DAX, M/Power Query, and Power BI Dataflows
    • Solid SQL skills and understanding of relational data models
    • Comfortable working in Power BI Premium Capacity environments
    • Experience working with Jira/DevOps tools for tracking and delivery
    • Exposure to Microsoft Fabric F64 and Power Automate (advantageous)

    Leadership & Delivery

    • Experience mentoring or leading junior BI developers
    • Able to manage delivery pipelines, set standards, and enforce good practices
    • Strong communication and collaboration skills across business and IT
    • Comfortable with data wrangling from different data environments

    PERSONAL FIT

    • You enjoy rolling up your sleeves to build, debug, and coach
    • You thrive in messy environments where you bring order and structure
    • You’re driven by getting things done, not just planning them
    • You balance technical detail with business understanding
    • You’re adaptable and can work through data gaps and tech debt

    Qualifications and Experience

    • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related
    • 5+ years BI development, 2+ years in a leadership/oversight role

    Personal Attributes

    • Drives results
    • Deciding and initiating action
    • Leading and supervising
    • Collaborates
    • Client focus
    • Flexibility and adaptability
    • Cultivates innovation
    • Strategic decision making
    • Analytical thinking
    • Influencing/ gaining commitment
    • Business acumen
    • Coaching and development

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Santam Insurance on careers.sanlamcloud.co.za to apply

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