BI Analyst Lead - Cape Town

 

Recruiter:

5th Dimension Consulting

Job Ref:

BI Analyst Lead

Date posted:

Friday, January 22, 2021

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

negotiable


SUMMARY:
Seeking a BI Analyst Lead with a Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, System Analysis Mathematics, or an Analytical field of study, plus 6 -10 years experience: leading organizations to implement future state business intelligence based architectures and/or solutions, for a position based in Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:

BI  Analyst – Lead - 12 month Contract

Job Purpose

  • Identify business intelligence, reporting, and data analysis needs.
  • Work closely with clients and IT teams to turn data into critical information and knowledge that can be used to make sound business decisions.
  • Build an understanding of the business at a level of detail so that critical issues can be identified and addressed.
  • Provide data that is accurate, congruent and reliable, and ensure the information is easily available to users for direct consumption or integration with other systems.
  • Educate and train clients to use the data as an analytical tool, displaying the information in new forms and content for the purpose of analysis and option exploration.
  • Work with clients to determine business requirements, priorities, define key performance indicators (KPI), and develop BI and data warehouse (DW) strategy.
  • This includes working with business and development teams to design, and document dashboards, alerts, and reports.
  • Is accountable for providing leadership and independent initiatives in facilitating information gathering, structured documentation and presentation of findings to all levels of management.
  • Conduct analyses of functional business processes and functional business requirements and participate in the development of business cases in the support of process changes and/or IT projects.
  • Understand how data is turned into information and knowledge and how knowledge supports and enables key business processes.
  • Must have an in-depth understanding of the business environment and an interest in going beyond the obvious, delving into the source, the definition, philosophy, and foundational roots of a data element in order to create information.

Responsibilities

 

Job Objectives

  • Provide design support for the development of business intelligence solutions.
  • Work on medium to complex and cross-functional IT and business intelligence solutions.
  • Work on multiple tasks/projects as team member. 
  • Sometimes work as a Technical Lead. 

 Project/Work Planning 

 

  • Participate in the workstream planning process including inception, technical design, development, testing and delivery of BI solutions.
  • May participate in the project management estimation process. 
  • Develop demand forecasts. 

Business Requirements & Analysis 

  • Work with internal and external customers and IT partners to develop and analyze business intelligence needs.
  • Provide input to business requirements for the design of solutions. 
  • Interpret business requirements and determine optimum BI solutions to meet needs.
  • May perform analysis for a wide range of requests using data in different formats and from various platforms.
  • Research business problems and create models that help analyze these business problems.

Testing 

  • May lead or provide direction for the planning, designing, and execution of user efforts.
  • Review test plans and monitor the testing process to ensure that business results are tested.
  • Provide input to the development of information quality metrics. 
  • Create data quality tickets, as needed. 

Research/Evaluation 

  • Research tools, frameworks and mechanisms for data analytics. 
  • Interface with vendors to keep abreast of new technologies, pricing and customer applicability.
  • Participate in vendor evaluations. 

Policies, Standards and Procedures 

  • Adhere to current standards. 
  • Provides input to standards, policies and procedures for the form, structure, and attributes of the BI tools and systems.

Business Case 

  • Conduct feasibility studies and drafts proposals for evaluation by appropriate users and managers.
  • Provide input into expenditures based on the size, scope, and cost of hardware and software components.

Research/Technical Evaluation 

  • Keep abreast of new and emerging technologies. 
  • Identify issues and make recommendations based on impact of new/emerging technology or modifications to existing systems.

Resource Management 

  • Provide advice, guidance and feedback. 
  • Ensure work, information, ideas, and technology flow freely across teams. 

Organizational Change Management 

  • May generate appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change.
  • May identify and remove obstacles to change. 

Coaching/Mentoring

  • Coach and transfer knowledge to less experienced team members.

Requirements

Qualifications

  • Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, System Analysis

      Mathematics, or an Analytical field of study.

Experience

  • 6 -10 years experience: Kimball or Inmon data warehouses, data marts and supporting tools Leading organizations to implement future state business intelligence architectures and/or solutions.
  • Leading major business intelligence and analytics development projects. 
  • Translation of Business Reporting and Analytics requirements to data requirements Working with interfaces.

Knowledge

  • Knowledge of conceptual, logical and physical modeling, especially for rationalizing data objects.
  • Knowledge of information management practices, architecture and frameworks, SDLC management.
  • Ability to collaborate with other BI architects to support common goals and approaches.
  • Business Intelligence Domain Metadata Management

Skills

  • pySpark, SQL and Data Analysis
  • Use modern BI tools such as BI Cloud Platforms or other .
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation .
  • Excellent technical skills and data analytics process skills (CRISP-DM).. 
  • Data modeling techniques and methodologies Database / Data repository design
  • System functional analysis
  • Data Analysis


 

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