Manager, Reporting & Analytics

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Provide infrastructure, tools and frameworks used to deliver end-to-end solutions to business problems. Build scalable infrastructure for supporting the delivery of clear business insights from raw data sources; with a focus on collecting, managing, analysing, visualising data and developing analytical solutions.Responsible for expanding and optimising Standard Bank's data and data pipeline architecture, whilst optimising data flow and collection to ultimately support data initiatives.

Qualification:

• Degree in Information Technology or equivalent

Experience:

• Must have experience managing a team for at least 2-3 years.
• 5-7 years experience with big data tools. Must have experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra. 
• Experience with cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift. Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Preferred experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• 5-7 years strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets. Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management. A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets. Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
• 5-7 years working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases. Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

Experience with PowerPlatform (Power Apps/Power Flow) advantageous.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Interpreting Data
• Producing Output
• Providing Insights

Technical Competencies:

• Data Analysis
• Database Administration
• Data Integrity
• Knowledge Classification