POSITION: BI DEVELOPER

POSITION: BI DEVELOPER

DEPARTMENT: NEW BUSINESS VENTURES, TECHNOLOGY

REPORTS TO: SENIOR MANAGER, TECHNOLOGY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT


JOB PURPOSE STATEMENT
The Business Intelligence Developer is a role within the Technology team at CBA New
Business Ventures responsible for the business solutions that support NBV’s business
intelligence and digital transformation goals. This is a role that requires excellent
interpersonal skills, the ability to work as part of an agile team, to manage competing
priorities, design solutions as part of a larger roadmap and to be hands on in supporting
implemented technologies.

The BI Developer will ensure the efficient design, configuration, development and
deployment of the technologies required for analytics, functional reporting and information
management. Work with business users to understand the data and how to generate the
businesses KPIs and metrics as well as the dashboards and/or reports used for their
delivery. As part of the BI team, continuously review the best technologies to deliver the
solution and help drive adoption through communication and training to end users.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & PERCENTAGE TIME SPENT
The effective execution of the role’s responsibilities should enhance the CBA brands by
delivering on the below key responsibilities;
 The design/analysis, development, delivery and ongoing improvement of all Business
Intelligence and Analytics processes (50%)
 Adherence to internal policies and procedures for the development and management of
M-Shwari SOA process instances and Business Intelligence repository along ITIL and
other best practice standards (10%)
 Support, maintain and audit existing service lifecycle artifacts, to agreed SLAs (10%)
 Apply knowledge and experience, showing deep understanding of BI architecture to
effectively design and integrate new service lifecycle artifacts (10%)
 Effective management of relationships and protocols with other technical platform owners
and internal business owners (10%)
 Advise internal customers on technology improvements that will ensure realization and
maximization of business objectives (10%)

COMPETENCE REQUIREMENTS
 Takes a structured and effective approach to own work and demonstrates
leadership potential.
 Is able to analyze, diagnose, plan, execute and evaluate work to time, cost and
quality targets, exhibiting familiarity with available tools, standards and procedures
and making correct choices from alternatives.
 Effective communicator, able to guide and advise clients and business partners.
 Astute at planning for mission critical production activities.
 Good understanding of Business Intelligence concepts and technologies: Data
warehouses, OLAP data structures,
 Self-empowerment to enable development of open communication, teamwork and
trust that are needed to support true performance and customer-service oriented
culture.
 Knowledge and experience with ITIL as a best practice framework for IT Service
Management.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
 An undergraduate degree or its equivalent in a Technology related field i.e.
Computer science, Information Technology, Software engineering.
 5 years of software engineering/development using formal Software Lifecycle
methodology 
 Strong knowledge and hands-on experience of the following:
o Application back-end development using Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL 
o Application/Web Server experience with WebLogic, JBoss, Apache
o Design and implementation of Data warehouse preferably Oracle
o Design and implementation of ETL processes preferable using ODI
o Development of metrics dashboards using Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
 Testing and QA tools e.g. JIRA
 Working Knowledge of Unix or Linux Operating systems e.g Solaris, Cent OS
 Experience and Knowledge of Shell scripting in a Unix or Linux environment
 Oracle Database Administration
 Proficiency in project management.