Analytics Support Specialist - Pretoria, South Africa - South African Reserve Bank

South African Reserve Bank

Verified Company

Pretoria, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

The main purpose of this position is to build, support, maintain and optimise business intelligence (BI) analytical solutions and services across the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
Detailed Description

Implement data and analytics standards and frameworks across the SARB to ensure optimised analytical solutions and adherence to best practice, including of the Data Management Association (DAMA), Data Operations, Development Operations (DevOps), Machine Learning Operations ( MLOps ) etc.

Continuously develop BI and analytics solutions and reports aligned to clients' strategies.
Take responsibility for BI and analytics solutions and reports for domainspecific implementations across the SARB.
Design, build and support data analytics solutions and reports that are robust, modular, scalable, deployable, reproducible and versioned for analytics and reporting purposes.
Continuously monitor domainspecific analytical solutions and reports to ensure solution availability.
Enhance and optimise domainspecific analytical solutions and reports, ensuring the continuous improvement and optimal longterm performance of analytical solutions and reports.
Diagnose, resolve and provide solution support to raised incidents and issues across domainspecific analytical solutions and reports.
Implement security and compliance rules to ensure adherence to relevant policies with respect to all BI and analytics solutions and reports.
Identify, manage and mitigate risks relating to domainspecific analytics services.
Proactively engage and problemsolve with crossfunctional stakeholders, from technical data teams to managers, to resolve incidents and issues on analytical solutions and reports.
Report and provide recommendations to management on solution utilisation, performance and improvements for domainspecific solutions.
Guide and train business users on how to use analytical solutions and reports as well as relevant reporting technologies.

Job Requirements

- a Bachelor's Degree (NQF 7) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) or Mathematics, or an equivalent qualification;
five to seven years' experience in building, optimising and enhancing PowerBI solutions;
solid experience with other BI tools such as MicroStrategy, SAS and Tableau; and
- a PowerBI certificate.

The following would be an added advantage:

experience with Python and/or R;
-experience using cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure;
data engineering certifications;

SAS certifications; and/or

experience with implementing in Development Security Operations ( DevSecOps ) and Agile environments.

Additional requirements include:
business acumen;
effective communication;
judgement and decision making;
a service and stakeholder focus;
a drive for results;
planning and organising;
problem solving and analysis;
conceptual thinking;
building and managing relationships; and
teamwork.
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15 January 2023
**The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her competence and experience.
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