Microsoft BI Developer

PBT Group has a requirement for a Microsoft BI Developer who knows SSIS, SSAS and SSRS.

With over two decades of expert knowledge and experience as information management specialists, PBT is a recognised leader in Business Intelligence and data warehousing and has extended its competency base to cover data quality and advanced analytics.

We pride ourselves to be a company who attracts, recruits and retains consultants of an exceptional calibre, not only within BI, but also within focused areas of Application Development.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Microsoft BI: Strong SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS
• Strong modular system design skills.
• Conventional and data warehouse modelling skills are required, in order to understand the various data models and to define the mappings between them.
• System analysis and design skills are necessary to design and document the data extractions and transformations.
• Expert knowledge of the capabilities of the ETL tools being used, to know what their capabilities and shortcomings are – in order to exploit or avoid those aspects in the ETL program designs.
• Good organisation, planning and basic management skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Decision making and problem solving skills.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING:

• Relevant data warehouse and BI solution training is essential.
• Sc. or related degree is advantageous.
• 5+ years programming experience.

DUTIES:

Duties: Back-end

• Design, develop, test and deploy ETL for ODS and data mart projects, as well as application and management reports.
• Provide technical support, troubleshooting and upgrade setup or support on ETL and database related issues.
• Research and evaluate alternative IT solutions to make appropriate recommendations to meet the business needs for management information.
• Perform root cause analysis, performance monitoring and application related issues.
• Review IT work products from the team members for completeness and quality.
• Accurately translate business requirement to technical documentation and test case or results.
• Analyse and map data from source systems to target operational data stores and data marts.
• Maintain and provide application support in production.
• Code or folder migration from one environment to another as part of release management.
• Participation in all aspects of quality assurance.
• Active participation in systems integration and user acceptance testing.

Duties: Front-End

• Create and maintain the end user applications, typically using off-the-shelf data access software or conventional query- and reporting tools.
• Develop the semantic layer, metadata, reports and report definitions.
• Develop graphs and portal interfaces.
• Load and maintain the metadata for the data access tool.
• Troubleshoot BI tools, systems and software; performance-tune these applications as necessary.
• Produce complex, efficient, error-free reporting solutions and related documentation.
• BI front end development on data structures, cubes, reporting, dashboards, etc.