Data Engineer

Recruiter:

Indsafri

Job Ref:

JHB000056/Thabi

Date posted:

Monday, April 12, 2021

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Neg

SUMMARY:
Client in Johannesburg is looking for a Data Engineer for a contract role

POSITION INFO:

Skills and Experience

Knowledge of the Financial and Investment Industry.
Understanding of general business terminology.
Experience in engaging with stakeholders at all levels of business.
Able to present and communicate concepts and ideas clearly to an audience.
Drive to gather accurate and comprehensive information.
Able to collate and organise information.
Experience in information classification and taxonomy.
Able to interpret and simplify information.
Keen understanding of data terminology and principles.

Data Management and Business Intelligence:

Provide data management services to the Client Engagement team.
Provide input to data quality deliverables, conduct root cause analysis into anomalies & provide feedback to data governance facilitator.
Identify and recommend data cleansing opportunities.
Identify and recommend new metrics, attributes, datasets to support business intelligence requirements.
Driving a Data-Driven approach to decisions.
Driving on a Right-Data at the Right-Time principle to Intelligence.

Technical competencies:

Excellent digital literacy.
General Windows operating skills.
Good knowledge of the Office 365 suite of tools (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Solid knowledge of:

SQL (ANSI – preferably T-SQL)
Dimensional modeling (Kimble methodology)
RDBMS architecture
OLTP and OLAP concepts
Data integration concepts (ETL / ELT)

Educational Requirements (Educational / academic qualifications);

Matric essential.
Technical degree or diploma (in related industry) advantageous.
Formal business/technical analysis training advantageous.
Relevant data certifications advantageous.

Key Accountabilities

Purpose of the role:

Provide Business Insight to support the Client Engagement Team. This is done by:

Using approved technology to build dashboards and data models.
Working with the Data Engineers to improve current products to increase usage.
Providing feedback to wider team to collaborate on digital strategy of Data Assets.
Gathering business needs and clearly documenting expected outcomes

Outcomes of the role:

It is expected that the candidate maintains a positive and supportive attitude towards the Client Engagement team. This will be measured by a customer satisfaction rating that should be maintained to an agreeable level.

New and intuitive data insights should be investigated and designed along with Client Engagement team and wider Business Performance team.

Personality and Attributes

Good communication skills (verbal and written
Good interpersonal skills
Analytical thinking
Facilitation skills
Creative thinking
Strong problem-solving skills
Negotiation skills
Critical thinking

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