Jobs at IQbusiness

What we want:

• We are looking for Data Engineering Professionals to join our dynamic and diverse team of Data Specialists. If you meet some or all the below requirements, then you may have a certain set of skills which we require.

Personal competencies that we are looking for: 

• The ability to solve problems.
• The ability to rotate around a problem, to see if solutions can be gained in different ways.
• The ability to work in an ever changing, unstructured environment.
• The ability to work as part of a team, with vastly differing skill sets and opinions.
• The ability to contribute ideas to the quorum.
• The ability to mentor and provide guidance for other team members.
• A systems approach to thinking, as opposed to a siloed approach. You need to understand how your work affects the greater system.
• The ability to work without supervision and take accountability for the work you deliver.
• The ability to liaise with clients, the ability to ignore extraneous data and extracting the core requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

(As the field of data engineering is very broad, you may be required to develop API endpoints for the consumption of data, data pipelines, highly distributed, high availability data processing pipelines in an effort to satisfy the need of the Client, Data Analysts or Quantitative Analysts.)

• Providing a superior customer experience by building and maintaining relationships, working at customer offices, keeping data confidential
• Design and develop data solutions
• Produce solutions for both real-time and batch environments
• Test your work to ensure compliance
• Solve problems, and do root cause analysis
• Prioritize your workload
• Assist in other areas relating to your data function, such as data modelling, data and business analysis
• Interact with a variety of individuals: senior, junior and technical business representatives
• Provide guidance to colleagues or manage a team
• Uphold the IQbusiness values, which are to care, learn & share; innovate; deliver as well as to build, enhance and maintain relationships.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4 - 10 years experience in Data Engineering environments and technologies
• Cloud exposure and/or project experience – Microsoft Azure, AWS, etc
• Extensive experience in Microsoft Azure technologies
• Extensive experience in reporting and dashboarding technologies such as Power BI and QlikView
• Experience using Azure DevOps and CI/CD frameworks
• Exposure to logical and physical data modelling
• Agile and waterfall project management
• Relevant Qualifications Information Technology
• Additional MS, Data and/or Cloud certifications are beneficial.

Your knowledge about the following concepts, is valuable to the team:

• Data modelling
• Relational data modelling in traditional database management systems
• Coercing unstructured and semi-structured data into structured form
• Data pipeline knowledge (extracting and transformation)
• Data transformation knowledge for reporting and analytics purposes

Some technical competencies that we are looking for:

• Writing SQL queries, that can relate, transform and aggregate data from many different sources
• Experience with writing data pipelines that move and transform data
• Working knowledge of a general purpose programming language like Python would be advantageous
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Databricks, Synapse Analytics.
• Working knowledge of Storage Repositories and Data Lakes

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Job Mission:

• Provide analysis, reports and dashboards using BI technologies.
• Build star schemas when needed and reconcile with the data source.
• Analyse the requirements and propose the best reporting solution to the users.
• Maintain the existing platforms and monitor the data loadings.
• Support the users and train them.

Key Activities & Accountabilities:

• Ensure maintenance of the BI platform, including users’ management.
• Monitor the processes and data flows and bug fixing.
• New Release testing.
• Document, design, implement and reconcile solutions.
• Enrich the existing data model based on changes happening in the sources.
• Work in collaboration with the BI team and the end users to propose the best analytics to meet the needs.
• Take ownership on user stories, update them upon the progress, and share updates with the rest of the team.
• Log the time based on the activities.

Education

• At least bachelor’s degree in computer science.

Experience

• 3+ years of experience of BI solutions, including ETL and visualisation tools.
• 3+ years of experience with SQL and a programming language, ideally Python
• 2+ years working with end users to define requirements and propose solutions.
• Experience with one of those: Salesforce / Tableau / CRM Analytics / Python / Snowflake.

Competencies

• English is a must and French is highly desirable.
• Ability to work with end users to define requirements and identify solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent visualization skills.
• Excellent communication skills

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About you and the skills we are looking for:
You are a strong and well skilled Project/ Programme Manager who is experienced across various financial services environments.
You understand People, Process and Technology and you have the ability to make informed decisions and lead projects from idea inception all the way through to activation and launch.  

You have worked in different industries including banking and financial services and you understand the world of consulting.

Experience and Skills:

• 5-10 years’ Project/Programme Management experience on financial services projects
• 3 or more years’ experience managing multiple teams across multiple projects
• Budget management and stakeholder management skills
• Effective communication skills
• Exposure to Agile and alternative delivery methodologies
• Exposure to Business and Process Analysis
• Developing knowledge work and growing the competency
• Exposure to managing people from a career growth perspective as well as a project aspect
• As part of the leadership team, you will be required to be a part of giving input on hiring people for the Delivery Leadership Capability. This would mean that you actively sit in on interviews to see if they are the right fit
• Hybrid way of work (Client, IQbusiness, Home)

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to:

Program Initiation:

• Identify stakeholders
• Consult broadly with clients (executives and delivery teams) and other stakeholders
• Analyse business value
• Identify delivery cadences
• Program planning
• Identify and plan teams (project and shared resource teams) and teams’ capacity
• Plan procurement
• Estimate costs and determine budget
• Identify functional and non-function dependencies
• Identify program risks
• Perform qualitative and qualitative risk analysis
• Identify program metrics
• Develop program guidance

Program Management and Execution:

• Organisation and coordination of teams across the program
• Build relationships across project teams and shared resource teams
• Build relationships with key stakeholders
• Communicate program guidance and establish support team
• Prioritisation and coordination of work
• Balance priorities
• Attend to administration and reporting relating to procurement
• Schedule and manage releases
• Negotiate and manage dependencies
• Manage program finances
• Monitor and control risks
• Coordinate and monitor schedules
• Monitor and manage teams’ health and performance
• Monitor and measure projects’ performance
• Report on projects’ performance and overall program metrics

Program Close-out:

• Close program or phase
• Ensure that all relevant documentation and reports have been disseminated
• Close procurement arrangements
• Off-board program team members and complete close-out

Education:

• Matric
• Qualification in Project / Program Management
• Degree or Diploma in Business Management, Computer Science, Business Science or Engineering would be advantageous
• Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, Certified PMP, Certified Scrum Master, Certified in SAFe, Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer