BI Analyst Lead - Cape Town

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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