Job Description

• BSC/ CTI Software Development Certification with at least 5 years working experience in the information systems environment
• Development experience in the Application, Integration, Reporting and BI space
• Microsoft BI Stack experience utilizing SSIS, SSAS and SSRS
• Strong understanding of Agile and Kimbal methodologies
• Leading development teams successfully
• Project Management and Implementation experience
• ADVANTAGEOUS: Experience with following:
• Tabular Model Cubes
• Microsoft Certifications - PowerBI, Azure & .NET Core
• Agricultural Information Systems development & implementation experience
• IOT & Block Chain technologies
• Valid, unendorsed Driver's License
• This role will report directly to BI Manager and indirectly to the Group Agri Manager and Head of Finance and Logistics.

DIRECT REPORTS: Junior Applications Developer, Junior BI Developer, IT Graduate Intern
KEY RELATIONSHIPS: Internal: Departmental Management Committees (Manco), Agri Division: Farm Managers, Feedmil Management, Farm Services. IS (BI) & IT Teams, Finance team, Systems Administrators

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To understand the core business of the applicable division/s and the key metrics utilized to measure divisional performance and apply this knowledge to know or understand Utilizing this understanding: Enable the business to make sound decisions by serving up reliable and accurate data, whilst also unlocking data value through visualizations
• Maintain priorities applied to systems implementations, development & support requests as agreed to by the Senior Management Team
• Manage development & implementation activities (including your own, Junior & External resources) to meet agreed deadlines
• Drive development efficiencies through ongoing review of time spent vs output as well as holding service providers accountable to deliver on requirements
• Administrate applicable information systems
• Provide ongoing support to the division
• Meet deadlines and project / implementation milestones
• Provide technical solutions that resolve business pain points
• Provide Business Intelligence insight through well crafted visualizations
• Provide consistent up time for business critical systems
• Synchronize system administration by keeping master data consistent across different platforms
• Manage internal and external teams effectively
• Oversee and action helpdesk tickets timeously
• Meet deadlines and project / implementation milestones
• Utilize established board templates on Monday.com to implement project planning prior to execution
• Manage Monday.Com captured information to keep information accurate /reliable
• Review execution dashboards to monitor execution and mitigate the potential for time and/or cost overruns
• Solutions to meet strategic divisional systems roadmap or else highlight deviations from strategic systems roadmap with the BI Manager for discussion / resolution
• All generated code (C#.Net, T-SQL etc.) to be commented and structured according to Internal Standards and Best Practice. Implement code reviews and hold technical resources accountable to these standards
• Provide technical solutions that resolve business pain points
• Understand business processes by reviewing operations and gaining knowledge by observing on the ground processes
• Spend time with key individuals and teams to understand their needs
• Translate practical observations and processes into a solution specification that has understandable terms (i.e. not filled with technical jargon)
• Submit all specifications and plan of action (including resource allocations) for execution to BI Manager for approval prior to execution and communication to divisional Senior Management
• Provide Business Intelligence insight through well crafted visualizations
• Business Intelligence development work to comply with Kimbal methodologies, Best Practice and internal Development standards
• Quality Assurance processes are to be put in place to prevent bad data from being moved into the Datawarehouse
• Maintain strong SQL development standards to provide best performance possible for all data sets (whether small or significant in size)
• Visualizations must be thoroughly tested for accuracy and relevance before presenting to key stake holders
• Provide consistent up time for business critical systems
• Setup the necessary processes to monitor key systems to mitigate unnecessary faults or down time
• Manage related processes around Server maintenance, SQL database maintenance and application development best practices to enforce best practice as well as prevention of exposure to internal / external cyber attacks
• Plan deployments during off-peak time periods to minimize business disruption
• Educate uses through motivating infrastructure / 3rd party software upgrades / purchases to address aged hardware and technologies or monitoring gaps
• Implement and manage a support roster to provide availability for after hours support
• Synchronize system administration (i.e. ensure consistent master data across all systems/sub-systems)
• Educate end users on the importance of master data creation in sub systems (e.g. Employee Numbers consistent with Group HR system etc.)
• Review and implement processes to highlight master data mis-matches for resolution by the relevant system administrators
• Manage internal and external teams effectively
• Review time worked regularly for yourself as well as subordinates and external parties
• Address internal gaps through ongoing development
• Address external gaps through holding service providers accountable to deliverables as well as guiding them with possible team development / intervention opportunities to improve delivery
• Participate in Group IS team building events
• Look for opportunities and initiate divisional team building events
• Oversee and action helpdesk tickets timeously
• Setup SLAs in freshdesk for turnarounds
• Monitor turnarounds and address potential bottle necks
• Develop and mentor juniors to be able to resolve complex support requests independently

Abantu Staffing Solutions