PWC BI Engineer Jobs in South Africa

PWC BI Engineer Jobs in South Africa



Job Description & Summary

A career within Data and Analytics services will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics.

We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.

Our team helps businesses develop data management technology that addresses architecture and governance frameworks that transform data into insight and action. We help organisations better manage the complexity of their enterprise data, reducing costs, ensuring the integrity of information assets, and enhancing performance through better information and refined decision making capabilities.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework.

It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

  • Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.

  • Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.

  • Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.

  • Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.

  • Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.

  • Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.

  • Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.

  • Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.

  • Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.

  • Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

    Services to be provided

  • Development and delivery of data and integration solutions e.g. building/enhancing data models, sourcing data, transformation, optimisation and provisioning.

  • Technical support of existing models and platforms within the BI environment e.g. enhancements and bug fixes.

  • Technical documentation of
    data environments, data models and data flows.

  • Working independently or with seniors on a project team to deliver new requirements that are small to medium scale.

  • Collaboration within the data team to help bring about improvements and efficiencies relating to the technical data environment.

  • Assisting the Data Engineering function with data analysis, monitoring and troubleshooting.

  • Working with the DBA team to ensure that deliverables meet quality expectations.

    Scope of services included

  • Delivery of assigned tasks as captured and assigned in the BI team’s product backlog or approved and assigned through a supported Africa Technology product line backlog or approved and assigned through the helpdesk solution by the Team Lead.

    Scope of services excluded

  • Any tasks not specified in the BI product backlog or supported Africa Technology product line backlog or helpdesk, unless agreed with the Team Lead.

    Approach

  • The position will report to the Team Lead, working closely with the Business Intelligence Technical Lead with regards to deliverable review and approval.

  • Projects and work tasks will be assigned through the Africa Technology scrum delivery process as prioritised and approved by the Team Lead.

  • Adherence to PwC technical best practices and standards.

  • All work tasks to be recorded, managed and delivered within the PwC standard work management platform (Azure DevOps).

  • Adherence to PwC software development and release processes including, but not limited to, change and release controls, security, risk and governance.

  • Maintenance of professional relationships and communication with key stakeholders.

    Deliverables

  • Product and environment support tasks as assigned through the product backlogs and helpdesk.

  • Service Line project tasks as assigned through the Africa Tech Product Line backlogs.

  • Data Engineering team project tasks related to internal projects.

  • Technical documentation of solutions.

  • Technical test cases.

  • Technical input into delivery plans.

    Skills required

    Essential skills:

  • Power BI Desktop

  • Power BI Service

  • SQL

  • T-SQL

  • SSIS

  • SSAS

  • Task automation/scheduling

  • Data structures/modeling e.g. ability to technically document data environments, data models and data flows.

    Advantageous Skills:

  • Alteryx (development)

  • Database design

  • Database security

  • Database tuning

  • Database monitoring

  • Azure Data Factory

  • Azure Data Lake

  • Azure SQL (serverless, memSQL)

  • Azure Synapse (Pipelines, SQL, Python)

  • API development

  • Python (Pyspark)

  • Machine learning (basic understanding)

  • Containerisation (basic understanding)

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; PWC BI Engineer Jobs in South Africa

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