Senior Specialist: Data Engineering and Analytics

* Drive the development and implementation of an analytics enabled business to create value through the field of data engineering and analytics for the company Online Domain. * Design, develop and optimize business intelligence DataMart's for analytics and reporting that focus on generating insights that will ensure continuous business improvements. * Assist in solving business problems and exploit untapped opportunities using advanced analytics, machine learning and deep learning through the development of models, algorithms and software. QUALIFICATONS and EXPERIENCE * Essential: 3+ year Degree / Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related quantitative field * Preferred: 4+ year, MSc or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related quantitative field * At least 5+ years programming and analytics experience in the BI environment * At least 2 years of leadership experience * Good understanding of all aspects of BI and Information Management processes. * Experience in a telecommunications environment highly preferred * Project management and business optimisation experience would be advantageous * Exposure to managing external vendor/supplier relationships and service level agreements * Track record of self-development and improvement POSITION OUTPUTS Data Engineering: * Define and implement data marts based on system requirements and business requirements * Perform ad-hoc analyses of data from organization database technologies, write SQL scripts, procedures, packages, functions, and views. * Work with the team in the designing of databases and data models to ensure interoperability. * Enable and drive data migrations across different data lake platforms and different servers, for example Oracle and Big data. * Troubleshoot data issues within the business systems and across the business source systems and provide guidance and/or presents solutions to these issues. * Review the impact that possible code changes may have on system performance. * Design and develop programs to deliver project requirements or enhancements to existing programs. * Collaborate with assigned business units to understand their analytics needs and devise possible solutions. * Asist the testing team to develop test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs. * Build efficient and re-usable services that can be reused to deliver requirements from different business units or projects. * Provide input on the improvement system maintenance, performance and support initiatives. * Mentor junior staff to ensure get opportunities to apply the developer skills that they have learnt. * Maintain organizational intellectual property through documenting of solutions on the organization's wiki platform. * Knowledge Sharing through forum presentations and internal training * Participate in sprint meetings and be willing to adopt agile. Customer: * Understand the business intelligence requirements of the assi