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Our client has a new and exciting opportunity available for a Business Intelligence (BI) Team Lead to join the team.

This role is open to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria applicants.

The purpose of this position is to manage the BI development team as well as the data warehouse processes and information in order to ensure the warehouse runs effectively.

The BI Team Lead reports directly to the Head of BI.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the BI development team in order to ensuring the integrity of all information within the data warehouse as well as the accuracy of the processes used to populate the warehouse on a daily basis.

They are required to develop and maintain existing ETL as well as provide operational BI support to the business. The BI Team Lead is also responsible for creating accurate business requirements definitions in order to monitor and improve business processes, conducting data analysis and creating specifications, working closely with developers and business to execute their plans and coordinate activities.

The BI Developer and BI Analyst Developer report to this position.

Internal liaison takes place with all internal departments. External liaison is limited.

Duties and Responsibilities (include but is not limited to):

• Manage the BI development team in order to ensure effective BI tools are developed for the business.
• Provide team with support and advice on various BI projects.
• Maintain awareness of the overall BI strategy and ensure it is implemented throughout the team.
• Monitor the development and maintenance of exiting ETL.
• Ensure data is transformed into the correct format for the warehouse and loaded into the warehouse accurately.
• Take ownership of the data warehouse and integrity of all information loaded into it.
• Review code of the team and identify errors and provide feedback to relevant parties.
• Manage the quality of code within the BI team.
• Conduct business analytics in order to monitor and improve business processes.
• Use data to support decision making and to identify market opportunities.
• Provide ongoing support where changes to solutions or fault-finding is necessary.
• Design data warehouse flows and schemas based off analysis, including staging, fact, dimensions, and cubes and reporting models in the semantic layer.
• Define the business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Ensure the business is provided with operational support and technical issues for BI processes are solved effectively.
• Perform a general management function for the BI development team.
• Conduct performance reviews and monthly KPI discussions with the BI development team.
• Set team objectives and monitor progress towards achieving them.
• Coach and mentor, the BI developer, and BI Analyst Developers.
• To manage own professional and self-development.

Key Requirements:

• Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential).
• Related tertiary qualification (Essential).
• 5 years data analytics or business intelligence experience (Essential).
• Management / Supervisory experience (Desirable).
• Relevant industry experience (Desirable).
• Experience within a data centered role (Essential).
• Proficiency in software tools (Word, PPT, Excel, Power BI, Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, etc.) and technical agility essential.
• Knowledge of relational databases.
• Knowledge of data warehousing and analytics.
• Knowledge of the Mukuru products.
• Knowledge of BI tools, concepts and architecture and decision support concepts.
• Knowledge of ETL and data analysis with focus on data integrity.
• Knowledge of BI Stack, including MSSQL, SSIS, SSAS, PowerBI.

Additional Skills:

• Analytical skills.
• Computer skills.
• Verbal and written communication.
• Presentation skill.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Business problem solving skills.

Should you be appointed in a remote/work from home role at the company, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a ‘work-like’ environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity and service to our customers.

Salary offered: R90 000 per month (depending on experience).

Starting date: As soon as possible.

Please apply online if you meet the above-mentioned requirements.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

If you do not receive any response after two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

NB: All staff appointments will be made with due consideration of the company’s EE targets.