Senior Business Intelligence Developer

Description:

• This role requires a person who is passionate, creative, pushes the boundaries, and challenges the status quo, who helps the organization to find efficient and pro-active solutions in support of business processes and decision making.

Education:

• Grade12/Matric/Equivalent.
• BCom/BSc Computer Science/Information Systems) BTech (Information Technology) or MSc (Computer Science) desirable but not essential.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and use ability of existing data warehouse structures to meet requirements.
• Design data models or enhancements to existing data tables following best practice such as Ralph Kimball/Inmon Modelling.
• Ensure that drill-through capability to source data is always possible.
• Develop code in accordance with the department''s design conventions including naming conventions and formatting conventions.
• Test and QA data against source systems to ensure accuracy after development.
• Obtain business stakeholder and client testing of results.
• Promote scripts through version control to production data warehouse.
• Continuously research, evaluate and test new technologies to provide more efficient and adaptable solutions.
• Development and maintenance of dynamic BI Reports, dash boards and stories to different audiences.
• Develop and maintain efficient models within the BI framework
• Ensure that documentation is done according to internal BI rules and procedures.
• Test and validate all solutions.
• Feeding back information needs to BI team in order to ensure that data is available for reporting and statistics.

Experience:

• Minimum of 6years'' relevant experience in Business Intelligence.
• Added with at least 5 years'' experience in any of Data Warehousing, Software Development Database Administration (DBA) or a combination of these:
• Knowledge & understanding of: Planning, designing and data architecting a business solution.
• Understanding and applying relevant data modelling with governance and best practices.
• Data warehouse Concepts and Techniques.
• ETL.
• Technical Documenting Business, Data Analysis and effective project management.
• Visualization tools.
• Strong Structured Query Language (SQL) with at least 2 years’ experience.

• Business Intelligence Suite, Cognos or Business Objects PowerBI, Qlik, tableau or any related tools.
• Strong database understanding.
• Analytical skills and problem solving skills.

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