BI Developer - Johannesburg, South Africa - Level-Up

Description

A Business Intelligence (BI)Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining BI solutions that turn data into actionable insights for business decision-making. They work closely with stakeholders across different departments to understand their data needs and develop solutions that enable them to access, analyze, and visualize data effectively.

Role overview

• Support the business requirements for the provision of business intelligence systems.
• Creates user information solutions by developing, implementing, and maintaining business intelligence solutions.
• This role is responsible for sourcing and transforming a wide range of data across the business into formats that can be used by end users to develop differentiating business insights.
• Assist in specifying complex business rules using specified toolsets to enable the data modelers to create complex analytical models.
• Responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the knowledge and information management and business intelligence architecture.
• Responsible for the design and delivery of high value and High performing knowledge and information management and business intelligence solutions for the organisation.
• Involved at all levels, from strategy to project execution to training.
• Leads Junior Analysts and takes responsibility for stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications/Experience

• Degree/Diploma in Informatics or Computer Science
• Minimum 5 Years experience as a BI Developer.
  
  Key responsibilities
• Define site objectives by analysing user requirements, envisioning
  system features and functionality.
• Design and develop by setting expectations and features priorities
  throughout the development life cycle; determining design methodologies and tool sets; completing programming using languages and software products; conducting tests.
• Recommends system solutions by comparing advantages and
  disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.
• Integrates applications by designing database architecture and server
  scripting, studying and establishing connectivity with network systems,
  and information servers.
• Completes applications development by coordinating requirements,
  schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
• Supports users by developing documentation and assistance tools.
  Updates job knowledge by researching new internet/intranet technologies and software products; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Enhances organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• To attend workshops comprising business and or technical representatives to cover test-dependent activities such as requirement verification and prioritization, test scenario identification and general matters.
• To take responsibility for: time management; reporting and monitoring; risk management; issue management; quality assurance and change management.
• To support test team members and associated IT and Business resources as appropriate to the implementation of testing related activities.
• To carry out other tasks as agreed with the Manager.
• Be part of go lives with other developers and assisting with go live
  testing on site.

Experience/Skills Required skills:

• Agile Methodologies, e.g. Kanban Proper understanding of the SDLC
• Power BI
• SSRS
• SSIS
• MS SQL Server
• Relational Database Design
• Data warehousing
• Advantageous skills
• Azure Environment
• Knowledge around how APIs work
• MS Power Platform

Non-technical skills

• Analytical thinking be able to spot problems that may otherwise be overlooked.
• Problem-solving skills identifying a problems source and fixing the issue, must be excellent at troubleshooting and finding resolutions to issues as they arise.
• Teamwork Work well with others and always remain professional.
• Communication skills strong communication skills to clearly relay technical information and actively listen to team members.