Senior BI / Power BI Developer - Contract - Onsite - Sandton

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ENVIRONMENT: Own the end-to-end design and development of sophisticated Power BI dashboards and management information solutions for the Licence to Operate programme.  This is not simply a dashboard-building role. The individual must be sufficiently senior to engage stakeholders, interrogate requirements, understand complex risk and control data, integrate multiple data sources and independently translate business questions into high-quality analytical products.   DUTIES: •       Design, build and deploy sophisticated Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions. •       Work with business, risk, technology and control stakeholders to understand the underlying questions dashboards need to answer. •       Analyse and integrate data from multiple systems and data sources, including situations where the data landscape may initially be unclear. •       Understand the underlying controls, metrics, KRIs, KPIs, thresholds, risk indicators and management actions represented by the data. •       Develop appropriate data models, semantic layers, measures and calculations required to support the dashboards. •       Design reporting that enables users to move from enterprise-level risk visibility through to detailed underlying drivers and exceptions. •       Build tailored dashboard experiences for different audiences, including: o    Executive leadership o    Management o    Risk and control owners o    Technical and operational teams •       Enable drill-down, trend analysis, exception reporting, root-cause exploration and proactive identification of emerging risks. •       Ensure dashboards are performant, scalable, intuitive and maintainable. •       Establish appropriate Power BI development standards, documentation and governance. •       Work closely with the UI\/UX Designer to ensure dashboards are both analytically rigorous and exceptionally easy to consume. •       Provide documentation and knowledge transfer to the client’s internal teams.   REQUIREMENTS: •       We are looking for a highly experienced Power BI specialist, ideally with 8+ years of BI\/data analytics experience and significant enterprise Power BI delivery experience.   Strong candidates should demonstrate : •       Advanced Power BI development expertise. •       Expert-level DAX. •       Strong Power Query \/ M capability. •       Advanced data modelling and dimensional modelling. •       Experience integrating multiple and heterogeneous data sources. •       Strong SQL capability. •       Experience with Power BI Service, workspaces, deployment, security and governance. •       Strong understanding of dashboard performance optimisation. •       Experience designing executive and management dashboards, rather than purely operational reports. •       Ability to work independently with senior stakeholders and ambiguous requirements. •       Strong analytical capability and ability to understand what the data is actually communicating.   Highly Desirable: •       Experience within a large bank or financial services environment, particularly in one or more of: o    Technology risk, operational risk, controls, compliance, regulatory reporting, technology operations, IT service management, resilience or Licence to Operate environments.