BI and Data Platform Technical Lead
Opensource
Monday, 16 May 2022
1
IT/Computer - IT/Computer Technician
Western Cape
FULL TIME
Job Summary
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical leadership to a team of Full Stack BI Developers and Analyst in evolving the capabilities of the central data platforms
- Ability to create design standards, patterns and principles
- Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it, shaping, structuring and driving the delivery of these solutions leveraging a Hybrid Agile method
- Work estimation, planning and management for a team of data engineering specialists
- Team delivery management and oversight
- Provision of subject matter expertise on a variety of data engineering topics
- Creation of role specific design standards, patterns, and principles
- Data management, development, and modelling
- Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, data engineers, database administrators and solutions architects
ESSENTIAL
QUALIFICATION:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering, or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred
- 8+ years related design and delivery experience
- Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required
- Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred
Experience in three (3) or more of the following areas are required:
- Database technologies (e.g., SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) and database development (Views, Functions and Stored Procedure development)
- Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala
- Object-oriented/object functional scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala or related.
- ETL tools (e.g., SAP Data Services)
- Event/Streaming based data pipelines (e.g., Kafka or Nifi)
- Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling (OLAP and MDX experience)
