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Turning Data into Insight with Matillion and Snowflake to service the Analytical layers for an International Client with an amazing team spread across 4 continents!

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Scope Management• Requirements Gathering• Analytics Framework Design & Standards Development• Solution Design & Data Engineering Builds (Sanlam, Distell, Pick n Pay, SALT Insurance)• Data Analysis (using Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Sybase IQ) • Database Design• Data Integration (leveraging Cloud and On-Prem solutions)• Visualization Layering (using SAP Analytics, Power BI, Tableau)• Text Analysis & Citizen ML Solutions• Product Feature Comparisons and Benchmarking Skills: Data Engineering · Analytics Frameworks · Cloud/On-Prem Data Integration · Technical Solution Design · Snowflake · PostgreSQL · SAP Analytics · MS Power BI · Tableau · Database Design

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• BI Delivery & Technical Support for Dashboards, Reports, and Mobile Solutions• Solution Design & Architecture (SAP Business Objects, Tableau, Cloud Analytics)• Technical Team Leadership for Enterprise BI Solutions (SAP BOE / Tableau for Pick n Pay, supporting 1100+ stores)• Data Engineering & ETL Design for EDW and Data Marts• Database Optimization (across SAP BW, Sybase IQ, PostgreSQL - Pivotal, DB2, MS SQL, HANA)• Stored Procedure Optimization & Server-Side ScriptingSkills: Business Intelligence · Technical Leadership · Data Engineering · Solution Architecture · SAP Business Objects · Tableau · Cloud Analytics · Database Optimization

Cape Town

• Technical Team Leadership (Local) for Remote BI Delivery Team (India)• Executive Dashboard Development & Performance Optimization• Solution Optimization Across SAP BOE, Sybase IQ, and SAP BWSkills: Technical Leadership · Business Intelligence · Executive Dashboard Development · Performance Optimization · SAP Business Objects · Sybase IQ · SAP BW

Complete overhaul and upgrade of SAP reporting architecture.Developer and User Training.Code review & optimization (MS SQL Financial Data Marts) for reporting.

Technical and Project Team Lead - KZN Government Treasury (BEE project):Define BI team, project plans, KPI alignmentDetermine ETL architecture and methodology (SSIS / Talend / Pentaho)Implement COGNOS and SSRS reporting techologies

Architect for initial SAP BOE North American roll out and member of the global Maersk BICC.Provide technical consulting to IBM clients (USA, Denmark, South Africa).Responsible for BI delivery using industry standard methodologies.

Safmarine and Maersk Line BI Consultant to Denmark / South Africa / North American entities.Global SAP Business Objects adoption and roll outBI Roadmaps, KPI's and Project Plans Trend Analysis and Financial ReportingUser Training

Data Warehouse Project Manager.Initiate DWH project from scratch.Obtain toolsets (local SA), refine ETL and Models (UK)Project Estimations, Exco Reportback, Presentations, Vendor relationships, ETL/Universe/Report Development.Loading of DWH / Reconciliation back to legacy systems.