Sbi Tech Lead

Who are we?
Sanlam Life and Savings (SLS) is focused on serving our retail and corporate clients in South Africa and further developing our strategic advantages in the South African market. Sanlam Life and Savings consists of three clusters - Sanlam Corporate, Sanlam Retail Mass and Sanlam Retail Affluent. The Sanlam Life and Savings Office provides strategic direction, coordination and support to the three clusters, as well as performing governance oversight that includes assurance provided by second line of defense functions in SLS, to enable us to meet our business objectives. Role Description
Guided by Architecture and other Technical Leads you will be responsible for establishing new technology components and reusable solution patterns that can be leveraged by business facing development teams in their day-to-day solutions. You are regarded as an IT specialist with advanced analytical and technical skills who understands the data structures and various data sources.

You should be able to communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as be competent in communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organisation will be of importance. You will also be responsible for developing data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms, and integrating systems; translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions. You possess the ability to orchestrate delivery with a complex series of stakeholders and able to conceptualise solutions built on a hybrid of technologies with no real scope at the get go, i.e. create, navigate and negotiate the scope on the fly.
What will you do?

Main responsibilities
Ability to create efficient best practices and establishing suitable processes to ensure effective environment and solution management.
Ability to define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it.
Creation of role specific design standards, patterns, and principles
Effective solution design.
Data management, development, and modelling
Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, data engineers, database administrators and solutions architects.
Mentor developers within the team
Working with other data engineers and data modelers, you will design, implement, and manage data vaults and data transformations
Assist in the loading of large, complex data sets
Ensuring data availability
Monitor and fine-tune data vaults and data transformations
Low error rate in deployed solutions.

**Key output/ tasks for this role**:
Design, document and communicate technical solutions that deliver on business requirements
Oversee all BI development / modelling activity incl. code reviews, issue resolution and general support
Develop technical standards and best practices
Identify opportunities to enhance and automate technical processes and solutions across BI projects and support operations
Support developers / modellers to develop data and analytical models
Form relationships and orchestrate delivery with key technical stakeholders across our business including architects
Engage with technology vendors and external technical experts when conceptualising, designing, or implementing technical solutions
Attend and present solutions at internal architecture forums
Designing (and assisting with design) of architecture used by specialists in solutions.
Constant refinement to standardize and implement new functionality based on experience and lessons learnt
Designing and building reusable artefacts to improve speed of delivery and reliability of solutions
Identifying performance enhancements for BI and Integration solutions
Troubleshoot technical issues such as database non-performance, integration failures and code failures.
Resolve critical data modelling issues impacting the functionality of BI products in production. What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification and experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering, or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred
8+ years related experience
Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required
Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred

Experience in three (3) or more of the following areas are required:
Understanding of SDLC, code management / standards / re use, release management, project management, and API integration (Expert)
Ability to do cost estimations for new workloads
Familiarity with the use cases, business purposes and quality of the data.
Knowledge of database management system (DBMS) physical implementation, including tables, joins and SQL querying.
Data warehousing principles based on Kimball and / or Data Vault patterns is required
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