Job Description

Senior SAP BI Developer: Permanent Position: Western Cape

The successful candidate will take responsibility for to lead a small team of to directly support strategic business objectives that includes the development, maintenance, support, and administration of business intelligence solutions that leverage external and internal data, to generate insight for decision making.

Key Performance Areas:

Collaborate with business units to understand business concepts, data, problem areas, and requirements, and define specifications.

• Drive and participate in design reviews to find the best fit solution for our users.
• Develop solutions that help decision makers at strategic, operational, and tactical level to understand their data and facilitate informed decision making.
• Daily technical, functional, and operational support for existing business intelligence solutions.
• Data literacy and adoption of BI solutions.
• Perform user support by diagnosing and resolving system problems.
• Execution and monitoring of after-hours system functions.
• Knowledge transfer to BI users and IT support resources.
• Research new BI capabilities and functionality.
• Provide a high standard of customer service to all internal, external stakeholders and work partners.
• Interact closely with internal stakeholders to understand the reporting needs.
• Implemented new ideas and improved methods, systems and work processes which lead to higher quality, better results at same or reduced cost data visualization and business analytics.
• Take ownership of key pieces of development projects on Data Warehouse and other MI systems, partnering with senior team members within a multi-skilled project team.
• Immerse yourself within the team and its architecture, contributing wherever the opportunity exists to the efficient administration of the multi-server environments.
• Liaise with the teamxe2x80x99s Business Analyst to evaluate business queries, thinking like the end user and translating these requests into technical requirements.
• Employ Agile development methodologies and proactively promote best practice and innovation.
• Confidently contribute to the development and refinement of our governance structures including Source Control and Release Management techniques.
• Other ad hoc duties as required by the business.
• Design, develop, test, and implement computer applications, reporting tools and ad hoc data modeling tools that support leadership reporting needs.
• Use data from a variety of sources to analyze complex business issues.
• Present results of analysis and/or recommendations to business managers and utility partners

Build effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders.

• Developed effective manager and peer working relations.
• Develop full understanding of business needs.
• Planning and co-ordinating board and committee meetings.

Drive Continuous improvement in area of responsibility:

• Implement new ideas and improved methods, systems, and worm processes.

Lead and Pro-Actively coach team around sustainability performance. Personal Development and Teamwork.

• Take responsibility for own development and contribute to team effectiveness.
• Agree on personal performance goals and achievement thereof.
• Demonstrating the Corporate Values.
• Drive own development to ensure knowledge and skills remain current.
• Career and PDPs in place.

Job requirements:

• Degree: BSc Information Systems, BCom, Computer Science or Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years BI application experience, SAP BI tools, SAP Business objects (BOBJ), Tableau, Power BI will be beneficial.
• Linux, Unix, Shell Scripting, XQuery, XSLT, XML.
• Architect, design and develop the framework to implement generic reporting solution.
• Implement and oversee integration with native data sources.
• Explore, adopt, and implement new reporting frameworks.
• Designs web pages, including graphics, animation, and functionality.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Dynamic individual with a passion for working with stakeholders to understand business drivers.
• Strong problem-solving ability xe2x80x93 must have track record of formulating and delivering BI solutions with complex data that are business enablers.
• Project management - ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Excellent team player.
• Data Analytics.
• User Experience, Design Thinking, Information Design.

Functional Competencies:

• Dimensional data modelling and Business Intelligence.
• Data warehousing components and Data visualization concepts.
• Dataset and related applications.
• Designing and delivery of Power BI Reports.
• Innovativeness: The ability to formulate new ideas or to adapt or use existing ideas in a new or unexpected way to solve problems. Ensures a 'Consumer and Customer focused' approach is implemented in own division.
• Entrepreneurial: The ability to think ahead to spot or create opportunities and maximize them,
• Personal effectiveness and excellence: Display an iterative learning mentality.? Actively seeks out opportunities to learn and develop and promotes learning and development in others.

Behaviours:

Deliver l Play to win and celebrate success l Deliver the Goods + Connect l Champion a culture of belonging l Learn, Share and Reapply + Shape l Think Consumer First l Make courageous moves + Develop l Have real conversations l Embrace Learning and Growth

Please note:

• Communication will only be with shortlisted candidates.
• Employment Equity candidates are encouraged to apply.

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