Fresh Opportunities at Praesignis

Job Purpose:

• To provide specific insights into all the functions of the client in order to enable informed decision making at all levels.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct research by undertaking and documenting feasibiilty and impact study.
• Create a proposed solution based on the Business Requirements Definition (BRD) to produce a High Level Design (HLD).
• Deliver final solution by obtaining customer acceptance and sign off.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in their Culture building initiatives.
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to the client.
• Engage and agree proposed solution as contained in High Level Design (HLD) Document by iterative engagements with clients.
• Conduct regular feedback sessions with developers to ensure alignment with technical specifications.
• Build collaborative relationships by assisting clients with resolutions of technical issues.
• Adhere to the customer engagement model by training and communicating new or changed solutions.
• Keep customer satisfied by providing regular feedback sessions and defining the relevant operational level agreements.
• Ensure work is completed on time by adhering to the deadlines as per the Task Request System.
• Gather and document business requirements by facilitating information gathering sessions with the customer.
• Produce the technical specification document by identifying and analysing relevant data sources; documenting and applying business rules; creating the dimensional model and cube design.

Preferred Qualifications:

• IT Bachelors Degree
• Matric

Experience / Tools Required:

• SQL
• T-SQL
• Experience in Dynamic Scripting
• Ab Initio (nice to have
• 5 -8 years' experience in IT and BI environment
• Experience in stored procedures.

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Job Purpose:

• To support and maintain the data warehouse in line with the data model; metadata repository and to provide business intelligence analysis through performing strategic and operational support.

Job Responsibilities:

• Structure data into compliance standards by adhering to metadata governance procedures according to the client's documented standards and formats.
• Manage final transformed data content by complying to prescribed standards for reviewing and publishing.
• Assist/govern population of datamart and metadata repository by complying to standards, systems, processes and procedures.
• Support business units by providing consulting services that delivers data and information relevant to their business.
• Contribute to internal/external information sharing sessions by attending formal and informal meetings.
• Manage vendor relationship interactions by conforming to vendor management office guidelines and principles.
• Deliver work according to customer expectations by prioritizing, planning and implementing requirements.
• Utilize resources by adhering to standards, policies and procedures.
• Align and continuously improve set processes by identifying innovation opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate risk by executing within governance.
• Resolve incidents by logging and tracking through correct channels.
• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters, websites and attending sessions.
• Understand and embrace the client's vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• 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.
• Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing knowledge with team.  
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes, systems and policies and support implementation of new processes, policies and systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Degree in Information Technology or Business Management, Mathematical/Statistic

Experience required:

• 8 years relevant experience of which 3-5 years' experience is in a data management /business role.
• SQL experience (essential).
• Experience in documentation (essential).
• Understanding of Metadata and how it works (essential).

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Job Purpose:

• To ensure the support and maintain the data warehouse in line with the data model; metadata repository and to provide business intelligence analysis through performing strategic and operational support.

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes; systems and policies and support implementation of new processes; policies and systems.
• Deliver work according to customer expectations by prioritizing; planning and implementing requirements.
• Utilize resources by adhering to standards; policies and procedures.
• Align and continuously improve set processes by identifying innovation opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate risk by executing within governance.
• Resolve incidents by logging and tracking through correct channels.
• Ensure work are delivered according to; relevant technical standards.
• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters; websites and attending sessions.
• Understand and embrace the client's vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• 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.
• Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing knowledge with team.
• Structure data into compliance standards by adhering to metadata governance procedures according to  client's documented standards and formats.
• Manage final transformed data content by complying to prescribed standards for reviewing and publishing.
• Govern population of datamart and metadata repository by complying to standards; systems; processes and procedures.
• Support business units by providing consulting services that delivers data and information relevant to their business.
• Contribute to internal and external information sharing sessions by attending formal and informal meetings.
• Manage vendor relationship interactions by conforming to vendor management office guidelines and principles.
• Ensure customer needs are met through regular customer feedback sessions.

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Degree in Information Technology or Business Management, Mathematical/Statistics.
• Data Management (DAMA) Certification, Certification/formal training in relevant technology.

Minimum requirements:

• 10 years relevant experience of which 5-7 years' experience is in a data management /business role.
• SQL Skills
• IBM DB2 experience