Full Stack Data Warehouse Developer

Closing Date
2025/11/20

Reference Number
MMH

Job Title
Full Stack Data Warehouse Developer

Position Type
Permanent

Role Family
Information Technology

Cluster
Guardrisk

Remote Opportunity
Some of the time

Location - Country
South Africa

Location - Province
Gauteng

Location - Town / City
Sandton

Introduction

Guardrisk is the undisputed market leader in cell captive insurance and risk solutions. We are renowned for our innovative approach to cell captive structures and other alternative risk transfer solutions for our clients. Guardrisk offers clients custom designed cover and is registered in South Africa as an insurer for all statutory classes of non-life and life insurance business.

Disclaimer
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Role Purpose

You will be responsible for designing and developing ETL, data integration, data warehouse, performance tuning, Data Modelling and business intelligence reporting modules to deliver quality Business Intelligence solutions to the business while ensuring that quality and standards are realised and met by junior team members.

Requirements

Qualifications

3/4 year IT qualification in Software Development

Relevant Microsoft certification in the Data Space

Experience

Exposure to the full BI development life cycle.

6+ years experience in the IT Field with 4+ core experience in Data Analytics/Business Intelligence or related.

Experience managing Data Projects.

Azure Data Factory/Synapse Pipelines experience essential.

The successful candidate should have experience with SSIS and SSAS, SQL Server

Power BI required.

Duties & Responsibilities

Participate in the analysis, design, development, troubleshooting and support of the enterprise reporting and analytics platform.

Design, construct, test and implement reporting, visualization, and dashboard processes that present reporting at summary level with functionality to drill down into detail.

Develop BI solutions using SQL, ETL scripting using ADF/Synapse Pipelines, business intelligence tools, database programming and reporting tools on the Microsoft BI Stack.

Integrate with diverse source systems (including but not limited to: In-House, Vendor-based, On-prem and Cloud-based, and Office 365).

Work with DevOps team and participate in testing of all database-related changes and application updates.

Responsible for the day to day database development/administrative tasks which include the development of queries, views, and other database schema objects.

Maintain data model schema, hierarchy within data warehouse, and reporting systems.

Applying database tuning techniques to improve the performance of current solutions.

Assist lead developer in Coordinate team efforts to achieve business objectives (Strategic and operational).

Ensure business continuity documentation through Azure DevOps.

Enforce database security standards and ensure adherence by junior team.

Review code implementations by the Data team.

Oversee quality of BI solutions by junior team members.

Mentor Junior and Intermediate team members.

Drive implementation of innovative and latest technology implementations relating to the Data space through the Lead Developer and Enterprise Architecture team.

Utilize junior members in achieving large scale project developments and implementations in consultation with the lead developer.

Competencies

Must have prior experience developing business intelligence solutions in large or midsize companies.

Must be able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and react to problems quickly.

Must be able to translate concepts and directions into practical solutions.

Must have experience in reporting and business intelligence solutions.

Must have development experience with relational database structures, multi-dimensional database, and data warehouse design architecture.

Experience with mobile deployment of business intelligence desired.

Must have experience with SQL.

Must be able to develop, maintain, review and explain data models.

Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Must be a team player.

Understanding of the financial services industry desired, especially Insurance.

Development experience with Microsoft BI stack (Incl SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Data Management).

Experience with dashboard design and delivery.

Must be able to work independently.

Experience using Power BI to analyze data and report conclusions.

Enquiries

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