Manager:technical Data Development, Integration and

4 months ago


Bloemfontein, South Africa University of the Free State Full time

Job Title- Manager:Technical Data Development, Integration and Maintenance (post level 7) Job ID: 5861- Organizational Unit- University of the Free State -> Vice-Rector: Operations -> Information and Communications Technology Services- Contract Type- Permanent- Occupational Level- Junior Management- Location- Bloemfontein Campus - Bloemfontein, FS ZA (Primary)
- Closing Date- 9/9/2024- Description- A detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter.
- Copies of qualifications (please provide the SAQA accreditation in the case of foreign qualifications).
- A copy of your identity document (ID or passport in the case of foreign nationals).
- Proof of registration with a Professional Body (if applicable).
- A copy of your driver’s license (if applicable).
- Confirmation of employment from current employer / last employer if unemployed (only applicable to external applicants).

**Duties and responsibilities**:
**Leadership and Management**
- Manage a team and ensure that the Division members have sufficient information to perform their duties.
- Plan and maintain short term plans and objectives for the Division and ensure that deadlines are adhered to and quality outputs are delivered.
- Control the span over all areas of people, process, technology, data and governance.
- Identify and communicate possible impacts, risks, and issues.
- Prioritise work to resolve technical emergencies as they may occur.
- Mentor team members through informal channels.

**Technical Responsibilities**
- Consolidate and optimise available database infrastructure.
- Conceive analytics and business intelligence platform architecture for clients, including internal and third-party clients.
- Design and implement ETL procedures for intake of data from both internal and outside sources; as well as ensure data is verified and quality is checked.
- Design and implement ETL processes and data architecture to ensure proper functioning of analytics lad, as well as client’s or third-party’s reporting environments and dashboard.
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders in ensuring data warehouse architecture development and utilisation.
- Carry out monitoring, tuning, and database performance analysis.
- Perform the design and extension of data marts, meta data, and data models.
- Ensure that all the data architecture code are maintained in a version control system.
- Design and implement database structures.
- Create and maintain the databases and database objects such as the tables, tablespaces, synonyms, views, triggers, stored procedures, defaults, domains, and indexes.
- Conduct extensive testing of the backup and recovery processes.
- Recover databases within the service level agreement.
- Articulate any data loss encountered.
- Ensure the logging and recoverability of database updates since the last backup.
- Take frequent backups - full and incremental as needed.
- Ensure accurate and complete replication of applicable data during the available windows.
- Detect collision to avoid loss of data.
- Maintain and establishes work schedule.
- Conduct analysis of customer needs and developing solutions to software challenges.
- Assist with querying and extracting data from large databases.
- Produce data reports from complex data sets.
- Maintain confidentiality of work related to data.
- Liaise with business intelligence manager, and internal customers to design and develop reports and analytics capability.
- Identify and resolve data issues through configuration of data cleansing and de-duplication software.
- Manage the database aspects of the reporting and analytics platform(s) to ensure that reporting jobs are successfully run and analytics data aligns to timeliness / completeness requirements.
- Liaise with database administrators to ensure that the data warehouse is tuned for optimal performance.
- Liaise with business analysts and project managers to develop and refine reporting and analytics requirements.
- Develop, Implement, Maintain and Test ESB integrations. This includes the data feeds and output based on the current technology stack.

**Strategic Alignment**
- Participate in the Business Unit management meetings and strategic planning sessions to obtain a clear understanding of business requirements and strategic direction.
- Ensure that the physical designs for the databases and its data structures align with UFS, IT strategies, UFS architecture frameworks and logical data mode.
- Competencies**Inherent requirements**:

- BSc or B. Tech/ Advanced Diploma or B. Com in Information Technology on NQF Level 7.
- A minimum of four (4) years’ relevant working experience relating to the duties and responsibilities.

**Required competencies**:

- **Results oriented.**:

- The ability to cope with a frequently changing environment and to adapt to evolving situations.
- The ability to be reliable, responsible, dependable and to fulfil obligations.

**- Strategic thinking.**
- The ability to deal with several activities



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