Data Engineer at Silica

Purpose of the role:

Provide Business Insight to support the Client Engagement Team. This is done by:

• Using approved technology to build dashboards and data models.
• Working with the Data Engineers to improve current products to increase usage.
• Providing feedback to wider team to collaborate on digital strategy of Data Assets.
• Gathering business needs and clearly documenting expected outcomes

Outcomes of the role:

• It is expected that the candidate maintains a positive and supportive attitude towards the Client Engagement team. This will be measured by a customer satisfaction rating that should be maintained to an agreeable level.
• New and intuitive data insights should be investigated and designed along with Client Engagement team and wider Business Performance team.

Competencies and experience:

Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of the Financial and Investment Industry.
• Understanding of general business terminology.
• Experience in engaging with stakeholders at all levels of business.
• Able to present and communicate concepts and ideas clearly to an audience.
• Drive to gather accurate and comprehensive information.
• Able to collate and organise information.
• Experience in information classification and taxonomy.
• Able to interpret and simplify information.
• Keen understanding of data terminology and principles.

Data Management and Business Intelligence

• Provide data management services to the Client Engagement team.
• Provide input to data quality deliverables, conduct root cause analysis into anomalies & provide feedback to data governance facilitator.
•  Identify and recommend data cleansing opportunities.
• Identify and recommend new metrics, attributes, datasets to support business intelligence requirements.
• Driving a Data-Driven approach to decisions.
• Driving on a Right-Data at the Right-Time principle to Intelligence

Technical competencies

• Excellent digital literacy.
• General Windows operating skills.
• Good knowledge of the Office 365 suite of tools (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Solid knowledge of:

• SQL (ANSI – preferably T-SQL)
• Dimensional modeling (Kimble methodology)
• RDBMS architecture
• OLTP and OLAP concepts
• Data integration concepts (ETL / ELT)

Educational Requirements (Educational / academic qualifications)

• Matric essential.
• Technical degree or diploma (in related industry) advantageous.
• Formal business/technical analysis training advantageous.
• Relevant data certifications advantageous.

Silica is an equal opportunity employer and this position will be filled in accordance with our current Employment Equity practices.