BI Development Manager Jobs in Johannesburg, South Africa at Sanlam
CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Santam’s Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics & Automation (AIDAA) team is seeking a skilled and experienced Development Manager: BI Insights to manage the technical extension and on-going enhancements to the Data Hub/ Info Center, maintenance of various exploitation tools and establish new BI capabilities in line with the target architecture for BI. Working specifically with Technical Architecture and Release & Deployment Management to support and maintain the BI Data Hub technical infrastructure, Application Dev Ops processes & procedures.
Specific emphasis for this role will be the support of the development teams, implementation of alerting & monitoring and the support of infrastructure and application components.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The purpose of the role includes the following:
Ensure that the application systems are designed, built and operated in an effective and efficient manner.
Ensure technical delivery and operation of IT applications with specific focus on appropriateness, technical quality, maintainability, performance and availability.
Ensure the delivery of BI initiatives, and BI delivery streams as parts of broader initiatives. This would include, but not be limited to the BI Cloud transition.
 
Primary responsibilities:
The Development Manager: BI Insights will provide the following key services:
Participate in data strategy formulation in order to conceptualise change programmes, projects and initiatives.
Support the end-to-end data strategy and roadmap, spanning from data acquisition, data integration, processing, management and usage for the Santam Group.
Identify opportunities to influence the improvement or enhancement of business processes and methodologies as it relates to BI by researching and recommending improvement initiatives and effective ways to operate and add value to Santam.
Collaborate with the key business stakeholders.
Oversee cross-functional efforts to improve data quality and security and promote strategic leveraging of data as a business asset.
Detailed planning of technical delivery of new applications and application extensions.
Set and ensure compliance with development and solution design standards.
Manage upgrade existing technology components to remain current with organisation standards.
Plan, select and implement new technology enablers as needed.
Ensure appropriateness, quality & completeness of solutions.
Build strong partnerships with Business Development Partners, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, other IT Development Managers, Enterprise Architecture and external vendors.
 
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Monitoring and management of hardware & software resource performance (CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, across all data environments and take decisive action where potential business user impact is anticipated or experienced.
Collaborating with Architects and Technical Specialists on ways to automate and improve the development, release management and production observation processes & procedures.
Collaborates with ETL developers, data engineers and data analysts to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.
Installation of software (from operating systems through to applications) across environments.
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Work with Development teams and technical staff, to ensure the solutions/amendments are implemented according to best practice.
Participate in various Troubleshooting & Problem-Solving initiatives setup and managed by Technical Support and/or SGT.
Manage performance and development of all direct reports.
Assist with the growth on performance, capacity and capability within the team through effective knowledge transfer.
Provide training, mentorship and leadership to direct and inspire a high-performance team.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Relevant B Degree or equivalent workplace experience
5 to 10 years at application development experience
Minimum 10 years strong Data Management experience
Experienced in dealing with external suppliers and offshore business…
Title: BI Development Manager
Company: Sanlam
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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