Data Warehouse Developer | Institutional IT at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Responsibilities

• Work as part of a larger IT team using the Scrum methodology.
• Interact with business users, Business Analysts and other developers to understand user requirements.
• Develop integration solutions using T-SQL and other vendor integration tools
• ETL development to load Data warehouse
• Maintain existing SSRS report definitions to present the data.
• Support existing integration and reporting solutions in the production environment by analysing problems reported by users and track down their cause through debugging techniques and discussion with other team members. 
• Testing and deployment of new development.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years SQL experience (stored procedures, UDF’s, T-SQL, performance tuning and optimization, RDBMS, error handling and logging, etc.) is essential
• Experience with data integration, validation and reconciliation (SSIS or similar).
• Expert knowledge of reporting technologies (SSRS, PowerBI or similar)
• Experience with creating and maintaining cubes (SSAS) would be advantageous
• Expert experience with relational and dimensional database structures.
• Experience in interacting with business users to understand requirements and producing solutions
• Experience working in AWS Cloud implementation would be an advantage
• Exposure to PostgreSQL would be an advantage

Skills / Competencies

• Attention to detail and quality.
• Problem Solving
• Willingness to take initiative and responsibility.
• Ability to meet deadlines and deal with pressure.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a diverse team and cross-train with team members.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good communication

Education

• Degree or diploma in information science or related technical discipline.
• Knowledge of financial concepts and terms and interested in attending courses to improve business knowledge. 
• Financial Services industry experience would be an advantage.