Available Jobs at Praesignis

Essential Skills:

• 5+ years experience in Business/Data Analysis
• Strong accounting/financial background
• Data modelling experience
• Financial dataset analysis capabilities
• SAFE/Agile methodology experience
• Requirements gathering and refinement skills

Advantageous:

• Plato platform knowledge
• Banking sector experience
• SQL proficiency
• BI tool experience

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Essential Skills:

• 5+ years development experience
• Strong database and SQL expertise
• Integration experience
• Automation capabilities
• Testing methodologies
• CI/CD practices

Advantageous:

• Plato or similar platform experience
• Financial services background
• Data pipeline development

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Essential Skills:

• 10+ years development experience.
• Solution architecture expertise.
• Technical leadership experience.
• Advanced SQL Server knowledge.
• Integration design patterns expertise.
• SAFE/Agile workflow experience.

Advantageous:

• Plato platform experience
• Financial systems architecture experience
• Cloud transformation experience

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Engineering Requirements:

• Evaluate user requirements and advise on design and content of software engineering required to deliver required features.
• Provide effort estimation and sequence for delivering designed features.
• Develop and configure designed features according to applicable architecture, standards and policies.
• Utilise DevOps practices and tools and deliver in alignment against the Always On, Always secure stream of work.
• Implement data governance, data management and data security features applicable to the storage and transit of data to and within the platform.
• Perform component integration testing on engineered software.
• Provide guidance to testers on how engineered software should be tested.
• Assist with system integration testing on engineered software.
• Plan cutover or migration activities required to implement required features.
• Deploy software to production and perform planned cutover activities.
• Provide technical thought leadership around how new concepts should be architected and designed within the platform.
• Participate and contribute into cloud journey.
• Network Connectivity Knowledge - for debugging and optimisation.
• SQL Server Administration - Work with restoring Database & working in-depth with Databases.
• Server Administration (Virtual Machine and Physical Server) - in-depth knowledge on all aspects of servers to debug issues with connection.

Production support where needed:

• Investigate and resolve defects or reconciliation breaks post implementation.
• Provide support and knowledge sharing to other resources and transfer skills.
• Support production stability initiatives and automation the jobs when needed.
• Support and maintain the solutions built on client platforms (on prem and/or other).

 Support Activities

• Participate in the SAFE Agile Ceremonies.
• Provide regular update to the Scrum Master/Engineering Lead/RTE on the progress, risks and blockers where applicable.
• Effective owning and execution of allocated story items.
• Ensure feature/story reporting tools (e.g. Jira) are updated with accurate information and status update.

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Job Purpose

• To contribute to the development and maintenance of best practice models and assessment strategies in line with regulations (where applicable) in order to facilitate world class risk management.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Client Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
• Research and make recommendations for corporate citizenship initiatives in area of influence
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g.. Green Strategy).
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes; models and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to the client.
• Contribute to the development of differentiated; superior solutions (solution engineering) that meet stakeholder and business requirements through analysis.
• Ensure product and/or solution design is congruent with the required business specifications through meeting stakeholder requirements timeously.
• Contribute to the development of differentiated; superior solutions (solution engineering) that meet stakeholder and business requirements through analysis.
• Ensure product and/or solution design is congruent with the required business specifications through meeting stakeholder requirements timeously.
• Ensure business needs are met by engaging and assisting business through face to face interaction and attendance at forums and committees .
• Assist the business to address queries by extracting and analysing data. Perform ad hoc analysis and complete data requests through monitoring of data as per client specification.
• Ensure continuity and knowledge base through documenting and recording processes and models.
• Provide insights enabling growth through analytical research; systems and marketing insights by delivering analytical results and making recommendations to stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance to policy through data analysis and monitoring. Create efficiencies and streamline processes through analysis.
• Establish understanding of processes by bridging the gap between operational and analytical concepts through communication.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Client and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned. Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers.
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
• Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.

Technical Skills Required:

• MS Office
• SQL
• Python
• Power BI

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level:

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate

Preferred Qualification:

• Honours / 4-year degree in a Quantitative field (Commerce, Maths, Stats, Actuarial Science, Engineering)

Preferred Experience:

• Graduate or 1/2 years' experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge:

• Business Acumen
• Industry trends
• Microsoft Office
• Principles of Project Management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Risk management process and frameworks
• Business writing skills
• Microsoft Excel
• Quantitative Skills

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Requirements:

• Extensive ETL Experience: A wizard at extracting, transforming, and loading data (5+ years).
• Proficiency in SSIS & SSAS: As an SQL Developer, you'll be expected to navigate the world of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) with ease (5+ years).
• Finance Background: Our client values individuals who understand the intricacies of the financial world.
• Your experience in the finance sector will be a valuable asset to their team as they work on financial data systems.
• Formula Expertise: Must be skilled in crafting complex formulas to derive valuable insights from data.
• Your formula prowess will help drive data-driven decision-making.
• Business Analyst Mindset: As a SQL Developer with a Business Analyst mindset, you'll bridge the gap between data and strategic decision-making.
• Your ability to translate data into actionable insights will be invaluable.