Data Specialist - Johannesburg at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Responsibilities:

• The role requires some-one who can design and development of an analytical solutions / apps in addition to managing the product. 
• The ability to rapidly code functional prototypes, review code and develop marketing materials is an advantage. 
• Product managers must be able to interface with several stakeholder groups including our consulting partners, business analysts, other product managers, and our development teams.
• Management consulting experience in strategy and analytics. Familiarity with approaches of applying data and analytics to solve questions of business strategy for clients. 
• Storytelling – building storyboards and other presentations targeted at senior business audience. Could be in PowerPoint or other presentation media (videos, interactive presentations, etc) 
• Experience with release planning and roadmap creation; proven track record for deploying high quality products.
• Ability to be able to create competitive analyses for potential products, drive appropriate approaches and develop preliminary business cases – refining them all as emergent information arises. 
• Articulate and passionate verbal communicator – comfortable communicating with all of our stakeholders (partners, consultants & clients). 

Knowledge and Experience

• Some knowledge or experience in each of the three areas below is valuable. 
• Data Storage Technologies (i.e. SQL, Oracle, NoSQL, Hadoop, MSFT Access, etc.) 
• Data Manipulation and Analysis Languages (i.e., R/SAS, SPSS, Java, etc.) 
• Visualization Technologies (i.e. D3/HTML Visualizations, Tableau/Qlikview/Spotfire/etc, Advanced Excel/Access UI, etc.) 
• Flexible mind-set and comfort with multi-tasking. You will be exposed to different products, and your role may change rapidly given shifting product priorities and resource needs. 
• 3+ years of broad technology expertise in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints 
• 3+ years of progressive hands-on technical experience as well as 3+ years of full life-cycle software development experience including leading multi discipline development teams. 
• Ability to grasp a range of functional and non-functional requirements to understand the application scope to define the right architecture including solution components and the interactions 
• Experience with data architecture, data modeling and relational databases. 
• Experience with Hadoop, NoSQL and other Big Data technologies will be considered a plus.