Job Summary
This role is responsible for administration and maintenance of organisation wide Data Warehouse
Key Responsibilities
- Maintenance, development, deployment and scheduling of ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) workflows in the data warehouse ecosystem
- Maintenance, development and deployment of Business Intelligence(BI) catalogues/reports/dashboards in the data warehouse ecosystem
- Maintains the data warehouse architecture and all related documentation
- installation, upgrading, patching, migration and decommissioning of all the systems/tools within the data warehouse ecosystem
- Reviews backup designs and recovery policies and documentation for the Data warehouse
- Ensures Data Quality and Integrity of the data warehouse is maintained.
- Integration of diverse data sources with the data warehouse.
- Works with Techno-Functional consultants to identify and understand Source Data Systems.
- Uses Business Intelligence tools and OLAP cubes to generate analytical reports on large volumes of data
- Monitors and performs tuning of data warehouse ecosystem
- Manages user requests for reports extraction and data mining
- Carries out configuration and testing of data warehouse ecosystem
- Manages the execution of data loading scripts.
- Ensures all activities are in conformity with established policies and procedures that will sustain database system’s availability, security and recoverability
- Liaises with other section/s in regards to capacity Planning and ensuring optimal utilization of the data warehouse resources.
- Ensure conformity to ISO (9001/2015 and 27001/2013) and data security requirements.
Academic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications or any other IT related field.
Professional Qualifications
Required Certification
- Certification in Database administration.
The following certifications/training will be an added advantage:
- Unix/Linux Certified Systems Administrator/Microsoft Certified Engineer
- IT Governance e.g. COBIT 5 or ITIL
- Web Application Servers i.e. Tomcat and JBOSS, Web Logic
- ETL Tools e.g Informatica Power Center, Oracle Data Integrator, etc
- BI Tools e.g OBIEE, PowerBI, etc
Relevant Work Experience
- Have at least three (3) years working experience in management of data warehousing & BI in a busy environment
Skills Required
- Sound experience in Database Administration
- Experience in managing ETL tools such as Informatica Power Centre or ODI.
- Experience in managing BI tools such as Oracle BI/Power Bi.
- Experience in Programming/scripting languages such as SQL, PL/SQL or other programming languages (Perl, PHP)
- Experience in administration of Engineered Systems e.g Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalytics will be an added advantageAbility to install and configure Linux/ Windows installations
Competencies Required
- Excellent listening and communication skills
- Be proactive with good analytical and problem solving skills
- Good team player
- Ability to pay attention to details
- Ability to prioritize competing work commitments and deliver on time
- Passion for innovation and creativity
- High levels of integrity
- Ability to work under minimum supervision