BI: Senior Modeller

Recruiter:

Humankind Group

Job Ref:

HC000846/JB

Date posted:

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Location:

Belville, South Africa

Salary:

890000 Annually

JOB SUMMARY:

Our client has an opportunity for a BI: Senior Data Modeller to source and load a wide range of data across their business so that it can be used by analysts and developers to develop data solutions to business.

This will include understanding and continuously seeking techniques to ingest data and ensure a high degree of quality

and confidence. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organisation will be of importance.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Duties and responsibilities

Use the technology and seek to make use of the features therein to deliver value to the business.
Design and develop, but also required to coordinate with security and infrastructure as well as investigate issues, troubleshoot technical issues and devise solutions in line with best practice.
Responsible for a team of engineers and it will be required that you guide, assist and grow the individuals in that team.
Act in technical leadership capacity and design, develop and enhance the ingestion frameworks that can load data consistently with a high degree of confidence
Load large, complex data sets to and make data available for data engineers
Source data from internal and external data sources, engaging with technical subject matter experts
Build the infrastructure required for optimal Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) of data from a wide variety of data sources using various ‘big data’ technologies
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing models for greater scalability
Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, other data engineers and solutions architects
Support data stewards to establish and enforce guidelines for data collection, quality improvements, integration and processes
Mentor Junior Data Engineers

Qualification and experience

National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer
Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or any other quantitative field (preferred)
5+ years' experience as a Data Engineer in a BI environment
Ability to comply to and manage data assets under a strict governance framework
Excellent SQL skills and development using SQL and procedural extensions is required.
Experience in ETL toolsets (e.g. SAP Data Services) is required
Strong Data Engineering background with a specific focus on staging high quality data
A solid background in SQL, Information Architecture and ETL procedures is required
Experience in Database technologies (e.g. SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) and Hadoop components
including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala required.
Experience with object-oriented/functional/scripting languages (e.g. Python, Unix Shell scripting, Java,
Scala etc.) is required.
Understanding of data warehousing principles (e.g. Kimball and Vault) desired.
Experience in agile development desired

Skills

Strong analytical-thinking and problem-solving abilities
Ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information
Strong technical and operational ability
Deadline-driven, even in pressurised and fast-paced environments

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