Senior Specialist: Technical Analyst at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• Are you ready to join Vodacom’s exciting world of Digital IT and become part of a high performing, dynamic technology team? With our customers at the heart of our purpose, you will be part of the evolution of our IT technology landscape, harnessing the latest technical innovations available.The role of the Technical Analyst is responsible to understand business requirements and business priorities by conducting functional analysis of business processes, technical requirements and to lead the realisation of the BI technical delivery. This role shall serve the purpose of a Lead Technical Analyst within the Agile scrum delivery process to communicate the requirements to the team

Your responsibilities will include:

• Seek out relevant information to evaluate and analyse end user requirements through interviews, user research, forums, other data and information;
• Document and present analysis findings/outcomes;
• Provide input to the business requirements for the design of solutions
• Develop and maintain best practice process for data deployment, quality metrics and standards;
• Provide guidance, technical direction and mentoring for other team members;
• Support the facilitation of the development process by providing consultation, clarification and direction for new developments
• Identify opportunities to review existing solution to improve data accuracy;
• Serve as single point of contact for technical analysis between the Agile team and the Product Owner, work closely with the Scrum Master and design team implement solutions that meets stated requirements;
• Analyse testing results to ensure the solution meets the needs of the business;
• Provide both analytical as well as creative ideas for solving problems and direct the implementation of these solutions;
• To provide support and consulting to operational teams to resolve complex issues;
• Research and stay abreast of Data Enablement ecosystem design and technology trends;
• Present research findings and incorporate into future BI technology strategies;

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric / Grade 12 essential.
• 3 year degree or diploma in IT, Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field 
• 5-8 years of IT experience essential, preferably in a Data/BI environment, with 1-2 year’s experience in an Agile Delivery Team
• Experience working with, evaluating and manipulating data;
• Excellent collaboration and effective interaction with application development teams
• Defining and developing business processes

Knowledge of data warehouse/ODS concepts

• physical database design
• Data Transformation
• Architecture
• Able to understand and create 
• Data modelling
• ETL Architecture and Design
• Evaluate and construct complex SQL scripts

Experience and knowledge of the following would be advantageous:

• Extensive experience and knowledge implementing telecommunications systems and solutions
• Large scale Data Warehousing, utilities, tools and applications 
• BI Tools (QlikSense, QlikView, etc)
• Teradata/Exadata/AWS/GCP

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fiber connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies