Business Intelligence Developer

Blu Label Unlimited; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 400 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in Johannesburg is looking for a Business Intelligence Developer to support accurate data modeling and reporting. The ideal candidate must have a relevant degree, at least 4 years of experience in BI, and substantial expertise in Qlik Sense. Responsibilities include creating dashboards, ETL processes, and ensuring data integrity across the organization's reporting systems. This position requires strong problem-solving skills, effective communication, and collaboration across departments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in business Intelligence, data extraction, modeling, visualization, testing and analysis.
• Experience with Qlik Sense is essential.
• Ability to create ETL processes for large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise BI reporting and ETL processes.
• Generate regular sales performance reports and dashboards.
• Ensure data integrity across performance-based metrics.
• Respond to queries from business functions in a timely manner.

Skills

Problem-solving

Clear communication

Task structuring

Driving success

Data visualization

Data modeling

Education

Relevant bachelor’s degree with honours

BI development and visualization certification

Tools

Qlik Sense

MS SQL

Qlik nPrinting

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

Job Purpose

The incumbent BI developer plays a crucial role in supporting accurate data collection, processing, modelling, deployment and analysis to answer key business questions while building systems to assist our leaders with data to support organizational efficiency. Work closely with various departments to ensure data accuracy and consistent reporting that can be used by the entire organization. Maintaining our next-generation Qlik Sense applications to drive automated insights and empower the business with self-service analytics.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver Insights and Business Intelligence

• Design, develop, implement, manage and support mission-critical enterprise BI reporting and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes
• Own the BI requirements for Blue Label Distribution, understanding how they relate to company data, and how they translate into reports and dashboards used by all departments
• Generate regular sales performance reports, dashboards, and presentations to provide insights into key metrics, trends, and opportunities
• Lead the full report development life cycle, including working with the customer to gather and document business requirements including data and delivery requirements
• Build intuitive, actionable dashboards with relevant visualisations and commentary for business heads, focusing on the Commercial Stream (supplier and merchants commissions, account and product profitability)
• Manage Qlik Management Console (QMC), including task scheduling, allocation of user licenses and Qlik user profiling to understand usage patterns and tailor training

Data Management

• Ensure data integrity across all performance-based metrics and reporting.
• Ensure best practices within the business is utilised to ensure integrity of master data.
• Ensure data completeness and correctness and subsequent reporting

Stakeholder and Self-Management

• Respond to queries from business functions timeously through the organizational workflow tooling
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Plan, prioritize and demonstrate abilities to manage competing demands. Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change with degree of innovation
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs

Work collaboratively

• Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
• Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
• Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation

Self-Management:

• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
• Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands

Core Activities & Accountabilties

• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational need

Competencies

Behaviours & Values

• Accountability, integrity, and honesty
• Customer focus and service orientation
• Collaboration, trust-building, and support
• Adaptability, resilience, and change agility
• Initiative, innovation, and problem-solving
• Attention to detail, time management, and efficiency
• Positive mindset with purpose and balance

Core Skills

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making
• Clear, effective communication
• Task structuring and process management
• Driving success and continuous improvement

Functional Competencies

• Business insights and innovation
• Planning, alignment, and deadline management
• Document, compliance, and confidentiality management
• Professional communication, image, and conduct
• Managing complexity with clarity

Education

• Relevant bachelor’s degree with honours preferably
• BI development and visualization certification

Experience

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in business Intelligence, data extraction, modeling, visualization, testing and analysis
• Qlik Sense experience is essential
• Qlik nPrinting knowledge will be beneficial
• Additional Code language such as MS SQL will be highly beneficial
• Microsoft SQL server Data warehousing experience will be advantageous
• Proven ability to do data modelling as well as creating ETL processes for large data sets