Solution Architect - JHB
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Job Location:
Midrand - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are looking for strong Solution Architect to join our Data Information and Analytics team as client-facing permanently employed consultants. Someone who is passionate about data and implementing technology solutions and leading project teams to achieve business outcomes. There will be exposure to a wide range of industries so the ability to quickly understand new business environments is essential.
Who are we
Decision Inc. is a global management and technology consulting organisation. We help companies become Data Driven Businesses that are fit to take on the challenges of a digital world. Transforming their current operations and developing their new business platforms to scale innovation into the future. Our experience in leading technology and industry specialisations have enabled us to help companies to make better decisions faster. We represent the leading technology brands and are experts in the implementation support and execution of these technologies.
What Will You Do
Key Responsibility:
You will be assigned a portfolio of project to:
- Engage with clients to conceptualize data solutions
- Modernizing existing data environment
- Assisting our sales team with Pre-Sales and POCs
- Provide technical assistance and guidance to our junior and intermediate consultants
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
- Assemble large complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
- Identify design and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes optimizing data delivery re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability etc.
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using Microsoft technologies.
- Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
- Work with stakeholders including the Executive Product Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
- Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
- Complete technical reviews for consultants
- Assist with necessary technical training for consultants and clients
- Provide input into consultants technical growth plan
- Drive technical blogs forums and/or workshops
- Assists support desk where applicable
- Balance team support responsibilities with billable work depending on capacity and utilization
Who do you need to be:
- Minimum 7 years working experience in data engineering
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
- Experience building and optimizing data pipelines architectures and data structures.
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
- Build processes supporting data transformation data structures metadata dependency and workload management.
- A successful history of manipulating processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Information Technology or related field.
Masters degree in a relevant field is advantageous.
Microsoft Qualifications
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Data & Analytics (Advantageous)
- SQL Server 2016 or later
- SQL Database Development
- SQL Database Administration
- SQL BI Development
- BI Reporting (PowerBI QlikSense Tableau)
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (Advantageous)
- Data Management & Analytics
Microsoft Azure Certifications (Advantageous)
- Azure Data Engineer
Technology Experience
Experience in working with the following technologies:
- Microsoft SQL Server
- SSIS
SSAS - SSRS
- SSIS
- Microsoft Azure
- Data Factory
- Azure SQL
- Cosmos DB
- Azure Machine Learning
- Microsoft Power BI
Key Skills
- Business Process
- VMware
- Cloud
- HTML5
- Windows
- Project managements
- AWS
- Infrastructure
- Web Services
- JQuery
- Java
- Computer Engineering
- Solutions design
- Technical Solutions
- Analytics
