We are looking for a Data Analytics Engineer to join our team based in Cape Town (on-site).Main Responsibilities:Define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it.Create role specific design standards, patterns, and principles.Assist and advise the planning and management of the workload of the team.Taking a lead in analytical and information layer design solutions and provide guidance to other data analytics engineers in the team.Collaborating with other data engineers and data modelers, you will design, implement, and manage the data pipeline to avail data in the information layer.Create and automate reports for use by a large user base across our branch network.Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing models for greater scalability.Monitor and fine-tune the data pipeline, reports, and information layer for optimal performance.Monitor and manage hardware and software in the SOH Analytics environment regarding maintenance, patching, upgrades, and access.Use modern development and modelling techniques and tools to implement BI and data management solutions, including data quality, metadata, and reference data.Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, data analysts, business analysts, other data engineers, and solution architects.Support Data stewards to establish and enforce guidelines for data collection, quality improvements, integration, and processes.Design and implement dimensional models or other structures in the analytical layer.Role Requirements: Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in computer science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering, or other quantitative fields / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred.Work Experience:Must have 2-5 years of relevant experience in a similar environment working with the relevant tools and techniques.Technical Knowledge and Experience:Strong understanding of data, data structures, and data sources.Application and data engineering background with a solid knowledge of SQL.Knowledge of database management system (DBMS) physical implementation, including tables, joins, and SQL querying.Experience in Database technologies (e.g., SAP, HANA, and Web IDE, or similar) or Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie & Impala preferred and highly advantageous.Knowledge & experience of all BOBJ components is desirable. Create & maintain universes & business layer through IDT, BOBJ report, building, maintenance, scheduling & publications with Web Intelligence and CMC.Object-oriented / object functional scripting languages (Python, Java, Shell or related).Knowledge & experience of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships & metadata.Strong Data Engineering background with a specific focus on staging high-quality data.Understanding of data warehousing principles (Kimball and Vault).Experience in agile development.Ability to comply with & manage data assets under strict governance framework.Preferred Skills include:Data Warehousing (Kimball & Data Vault patterns preferred) & dimensional data modelling (OLAP & MDX experience).Solid background in SQL, Information Architecture & ETL procedures.Experience with object-oriented / functional / scripting languages (e.g., Python, Unix Shell Scripting, Java, Scala etc.) is preferred but not essential.Data Management technologies (Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), Axon, EBX).
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