Senior Data Engineer at Tharisa

Purpose of Role

The role is responsible for maintaining in-house Microsoft M365(SharePoint, Compliance), Azure tenant, Power Platform, Microsoft SQL Server and PowerBI software systems using structured & unstructured data to deliver on business information requirements and develop in house applications.

Role Context

• Maintain the structured data systems for line of business applications that uses Microsoft SQL Server
• Support and maintain the unstructured data environment on SharePoint 
• Develop and maintain applications using the Microsoft Power Platform specifically PowerApps
• Automate software systems using Power Automate or other Automation systems
• Develop and maintain information dashboard from data of on-premise and cloud system using PowerBI
• Ensure compliance of data and information 
• Develop and maintain documentation about current environment setup, standard operating procedures, and best practices
• Ensure the security of the server infrastructure by implementing industry best practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance
• Develop required reports in response to business user and management needs
• Recommend, schedule, and perform software and hardware upgrades, patches, and reconfigurations
• Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and correct hardware and software issues on servers, and workstations.
• Escalate incidents, as necessary.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/ NQF Level 4
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• Microsoft Power Platform (PL400)
• Azure Database Administrator Associate (PL300)
• Microsoft Windows Server or equivalent certification

Job specific experience:

• 7 to 10 years’ experience
• NET framework languages or similar e.g., Java