Junior BI Developer - Umhlanga at Ignition Group

Key responsibilities :

 Business Intelligence Solutions Development

• Designing, developing, and maintaining business intelligence solutions.
• Translating business needs into technical specifications.
• Using warehouse data to generate reports to support business decision-making and business performance monitoring.
• Reviewing, evaluating, and improving existing BI systems.

Quality Assurance and Documentation

• Generating and delivering quality reports to customers and performing quality assurance checks on reports.
• Creating and maintaining business requirements and other technical documentation.
• Ensuring solutions are released properly and each release is documented.

User Experience Enhancement

• Participating in user research and usability testing to help improve the user experience.
• Maintaining business intelligence models and dashboards to design, develop, and generate both standard and ad-hoc reports.

Report Management and Stakeholder Communication

• Managing new report generation and report enhancement based on change requests.
• Generating reports for internal and external customers for business performance monitoring and business decision making.
• Determining business intelligence and data warehousing solutions to meet business needs.
• Ensuring the generation and delivery of quality reports to stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner.
• Communicating with non-technical business users to determine specific business requirements for reports and BI solutions.

Data Governance and Analytics Implementation

• Assisting in implementing business analytics practices that drive improved decision making, efficiency, and performance.
• Enforcing standards and procedures for the capture, storage, and retrieval of data, including data governance across all systems.

Requirements

Knowledge, skills and attributes:

• Background in data warehouse design and data mining
• Proven understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing (OPAL) and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework.
• Proven ability to take initiative and be innovative.
• Proven understand and working knowledge of BI technologies.
• Understanding data and query optimization, query profiling, and query performance monitoring tools and techniques
• Proven ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardisation exists.
• Understanding of current data protection and privacy laws
• Proven ability to collaborate across multiple teams and build sound working relationship.

Education and training:

• Diploma in computer science, engineering or relevant field
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or relevant field advantageous
• Relevant certification

Experience:

• At least 2-3 years’ experience as a Business Intelligence Developer or BI Developer
• Experience with data warehouse design.
• Experience working with data collection tools and software in a Human Resources environment.
• Experience producing excel-based reporting.
• Strong experience working in an analytics capacity