job description - Business Intelligence Technical Lead (CPT)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.- 8-10 years’ experience in technical lead role.
- Experience in end-user report development.
- Proven ETL experience using SSIS.
- Hands-on experience in designing, prepping, configuring, installing, troubleshooting and maintaining complete BI Solutions.
- Identify and resolve data reporting issues.
- Ability to create efficient T-SQL objects and processes according to spec (databases, tables, stored procedures, business rules and functions).
- Advanced experience in T-SQL query optimisation, troubleshooting and debugging.
- In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing and ETL framework.
- Advanced knowledge of the Kimball data warehouse lifecycle.
- Expert data warehousing experience using fact tables, dimensions and indexing.
- Experience in table partitioning and efficient data migration.
- Expert experience in creating and maintaining multidimensional cubes using SSAS.
- Relevant management certification may be required.
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong leadership and organisational abilities.
What You'll Do:
Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge sharing initiatives.
- Engage regularly with software architects in order to ensure the development within the team is according to architectural guidelines.
- Work with other developers, designers/analysts, and architects to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
- Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met and the code base is sound.
- Ensure that all technical solutions that are rolled out consider compatibility with other environments and dependencies; have a high usability factor; are reliable to reduce down time and perform at maximum efficiency during peak periods of usage; consider security at its highest level (third party attacks; data protection etc).
- Drive the adoption of processes within the team which consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; effective resource utilisation during operation and where the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity requirements are met.
Quality of Software Implementation:
- Ensure rigorous testing of any solution before deployment and create standards and processes within the team to align to these.
- Ensure the delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been tested thoroughly.
- Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support load.
- Where possible, work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
- Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.
Initiative and Innovation
- Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team’s performance and company bottom line.
- Technical problems and opportunities are anticipated and dealt with immediately considering any technical dependencies.
- Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
- Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
- Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within the team and to the wider group.
- Incorporates the new abilities into the day to day operational activities to improve performance of products and systems.
- Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.
Knowledge Share
- Identify team members requiring a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
- Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in transfer of the knowledge.
Coaching/Mentoring
- Provide guidance, training, and problem-solving assistance to other team members.
- Mentor and contribute to the growth of junior and intermediate team members.
- Design and deliver end-user training and training materials.
Living our Spirit:
- Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team.
- Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team.
- Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
- Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.
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