BI Report Lead

https://www.swanitrecruitment.co.za/latest-jobs/317-bi-report-lead/development/johannesburg/job2025-02-26 07:39:422025-04-26 Swan IT Recruitment South Africa
Job Type Permanent
Area Johannesburg, South AfricaGauteng, South Africa Johannesburg South Africa
Sector IT - Project ManagementIT - DevelopmentIT - Data
Salary R1 200 000 – R1 350 000 Per Annum
Start Date Approximately 2 months
Job Ref VR/26255
Description

Are you a BI Report Lead looking for your next challenge? Look no further!


Our client is searching for a BI Report Lead to join them and will be reporting to the Senior Manager Business Intelligence. The purpose of this role is to manage, align, and order the data reporting and analytic requirements against the business priorities while coordinating the development of these requirements with the data analytics team and overseeing the implementation of solutions thereof.


Responsibilities:



  • Contributes to the strategy, vision, and governance of the business intelligence capability.

  • Drive best practices, iterative improvement, and innovation at the strategic deployment level.

  • Lead the BI and analytics technical oversight across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of support and collaboration within the data team.

  • Hands-on participation in BI and analytics deliverables, coding, peer reviews, delivery of execution plans, etc.

  • Lead the design, execute the creation of data solutions and enable the maturity of the company’s best practices.

  • Lead and provide oversee and validate the creation of data visualization prototypes to support the elicitation of business needs.

  • Create advanced data visualizations and data products to turn data into actionable business insights.

  • Provide leadership and drive collaboration between data engineers and data scientists/ data governance lead in the development of scalable and robust pipelines by means of completing and maintaining source-to-target mappings templates and associated metadata.

  • Lead as an integrator between the business and technology to create solutions for customers.

  • Lead and be responsible for the designing and development of the necessary core reporting architecture to enable appropriate automated business intelligence software solutions with an emphasis on Power BI.

  • Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.

  • Contribute to the compilation of centre budget, and manage project expenditure related to functional area.


Requirements:



  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business or related field or equivalent combination of education.

  • Power BI certified or MSCE highly beneficial

  • At least 10 years of related experience

  • 4 years management experience

  • Experience in using Business Intelligence and Data Analytics solutions to create reports and dashboards.

  • Experience working in cloud environments is desirable.

  • Experience in database management systems, online analytical processing (OLAP), and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework.

  • Familiarity with BI technologies (e.g., Microsoft Power BI)

  • Knowledge of SQL queries, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).


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