Senior Microsoft BI Developer Full Time Permanent

Senior Microsoft BI Developer – Cape Town

A Senior Microsoft BI Developer position is available in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

PBT Group has a requirement for a Senior Microsoft BI Developer who knows SSIS, SSAS and SSRS. Must have strong ETL

Required Skills:

Microsoft BI: Strong SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS
Ab Initio experience would be an advantage.
Strong modular system design skills.
Conventional and data warehouse modelling skills are required, in order to understand the various data models and to define the mappings between them.
System analysis and design skills are necessary to design and document the data extractions and transformations.
Expert knowledge of the capabilities of the ETL tools being used, to know what their capabilities and shortcomings are – in order to exploit or avoid those aspects in the ETL program designs.
Good organisation, planning and basic management skills.
Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Decision making and problem solving skills.

Required Qualifications / Training:

Duties: Back-end

Design, develop, test and deploy ETL for ODS and data mart projects, as well as application and management reports.
Provide technical support, troubleshooting and upgrade setup or support on ETL and database related issues.
Research and evaluate alternative IT solutions to make appropriate recommendations to meet the business needs for management information.
Perform root cause analysis, performance monitoring and application related issues.
Review IT work products from the team members for completeness and quality.
Accurately translate business requirement to technical documentation and test case or results.
Analyse and map data from source systems to target operational data stores and data marts.
Maintain and provide application support in production.
Code or folder migration from one environment to another as part of release management.
Participation in all aspects of quality assurance.
Active participation in systems integration and user acceptance testing.

Duties: Front-End

Create and maintain the end user applications, typically using off-the-shelf data access software or conventional query- and reporting tools.
Develop the semantic layer, metadata, reports and report definitions.
Develop graphs and portal interfaces.
Load and maintain the metadata for the data access tool.
Troubleshoot BI tools, systems and software; performance-tune these applications as necessary.
Produce complex, efficient, error-free reporting solutions and related documentation.
BI front end development on data structures, cubes, reporting, dashboards, etc.

Tagged as: Business Intelligence, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Microsoft SQL