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Job Purpose
To create and maintain BI Solutions that turn data into knowledge. In this role, you should have a background in data and business analysis. You should be analytical and an excellent communicator. If you also have a business acumen and problem-solving aptitude, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you will enhance our business intelligence system to help us make better decisions
Key Performance Areas
Application Software Development
- Develop existing applications and contribute to development of new applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement
- Develop new routine applications to meet customer requirements
Testing IT Performance
- Design and perform website/applications software tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues
Applications Software Maintenance
- Monitor, identify, and correct more complex software defects to maintain fully functioning applications software
Application Software Roadmap
- Maintain road map to facilitate application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements
Information Security
- Implement and provide input on the design of required security measures such as firewalls or message encryption, monitoring performance to notify security experts of any problems
Documentation and Back up
- Create and maintain technical and/or user documentation to a high standard and back up files to ensure instant recovery if problems occur
Horizon Scanning
- Maintain understanding of current technology, database management, and/or programming practices through ongoing education, conference attendance, and industry press
Operational Compliance
- Identify, within the team, instances of non-compliance with the organization's policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these and escalating issues as appropriate
Personal Capability Building
- Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation where relevant to improve performance and fulfill personal potential
- Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media
Data Management
- Translate business needs to technical specifications
- Design, build and deploy BI solutions
- Maintain and support data analytics platforms
- Create tools to store data
- Conduct testing and troubleshooting
- Evaluate and improve existing BI systems
- Collaborate with teams to integrate systems
- Develop and execute database queries and conduct analyses
- Create visualizations and reports for requested projects
- Develop and update technical documentation
Tasks
- Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
- Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
- Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
- Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation
- Consult with customers about software system design and maintenance
- Supervise the work of programmers, technologists and technicians and other engineering and scientific personnel
- Determine system performance standards
- Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan computer specifications and layouts, and peripheral equipment modifications
- Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met
- Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as reporting formats required, costs, and security needs to determine hardware configuration
- Train users to use new or modified equipment
- Specify power supply requirements and configuration
- Recommend purchase of equipment to control dust, temperature, and humidity in area of system installation
Tools
Integrated circuit testers
- In circuit emulators ICE; Logic analyzers
Flash memory storage card
Computer servers
- Application servers; Computer servers
Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
- Personal digital assistants PDA
Experience
General Experience
- Experience enables job holder to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (Over 3 years to 6 years)
Managerial Experience
- Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)
Competencies / Behaviour
Assessment
- Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on analyzing data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations
Action Planning
- Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements
Data Collection and analysis
- Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making
IT Testing
- Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on ensuring that IT applications meet required specifications by designing, executing and reporting on tests of systems and services
IT support
- Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on monitoring, diagnosing and fixing technological problems
Application Development
- Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing software using programming languages
Planning and Organizing
- Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives
Computer skills
- Proven experience as a BI Developer as well as Qlikview/Sence developer front end as well as loaders
- Industry experience is preferred
- Background in data warehouse design and data mining
- In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical
- processing (OLAP) and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework, and Analytical tools QlikView or QlikSense.
- Familiarity with BI technologies PowerBI
- Knowledge of SQL queries, SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS), SQL Server
- Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Analysis Server (SSAS)
- Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative
- Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude
- Qlikview/sense; etl; powerBI; sql
Behavioural attributes
Ensures accountability
- Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, measures and tracks team's and own performance, and helps the team learn from success, failure, and feedback
- Adheres to, and enforces, goals, policies, and procedures
Manages complexity
- Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, quickly determines the most critical data and focuses analysis there; recognizes even subtle symptoms that indicate problems; probes deeply for root causes; uses systematic problem-solving methods well
Tech savvy
- Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications. For example, investigates technologies to learn some cutting-edge best practices. Uses digital/social media to benefit the team and add value to the work being done; understands how to avoid misuse of these tools.
Plans and aligns
- Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. For example, outlines clear plans that put actions in a logical sequence; conveys some time frames
- Aligns own work with relevant workgroups
- Takes some steps to reduce bottlenecks and speed up the work
Cultivates innovation
- Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. For example, demonstrates openness to new ideas and ways of looking at things; suggests new and useful ideas or solutions
- Learns innovative methods, tools, and technology and applies them to work tasks
Persuades
- Uses compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others. For example, states ideas with confidence, conviction, and good rationale, capturing others' attention
- Connects own viewpoint to others' priorities and needs; seeks input to learn how to best influence colleagues and stakeholders
Decision quality
- Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example, knows when to act independently and when to escalate issues
- Integrates various inputs, decision criteria, and trade-offs to make effective decisions
- Typically makes good independent decisions
Qualification
- Matric
- University (First degree)
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