Business Intelligence Technical Lead (CPT)

Betting Entertainment Technologies (Pty) Ltd; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 60 000 - 100 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Business Intelligence Technical Lead in Cape Town. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to leverage your technical expertise in ETL, T-SQL, and data warehousing while leading a talented team. You'll drive innovation, implement scalable solutions, and mentor junior members, all within a collaborative environment that values diversity and continuous learning. If you're passionate about transforming data into impactful decisions and fostering a culture of excellence, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Learning and Development Programs

Growth Opportunities

Incentives and Rewards

Collaborative Culture

Qualifications

• 7+ years of ETL experience with a focus on data reporting.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills for team development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and ensure adherence to architectural guidelines.
• Collaborate with team members to meet application requirements and performance goals.

Skills

ETL Experience

T-SQL Optimization

Data Warehousing

Database Management

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Management Certification

Tools

SQL Server

Snowflake

MS Suite

SSAS

Job description

We Want You:

Are you someone who sees both the bigger picture and the finer details? Join our growing team as a Business Intelligence Technical Lead in our Cape Town office. In this role, you’ll bring deep technical expertise and a passion for turning data into meaningful decisions. As part of our BI Team, you’ll help plan, design, and deliver smart, scalable solutions. Your focus? Driving innovation across systems architecture, data structures, and integration while mentoring a team of talented BI professionals. Apply now!

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4 years’ experience in a senior/leadership role.
• Experience in end-user report development.
• A minimum of 7 years’ proven ETL experience, experience with MS Suite, SQL Server, Snowflake etc.
• Hands-on experience in designing, prepping, configuring, installing, troubleshooting and maintaining complete BI Solutions.
• Experience with big data sets and the ability to identify and resolve data reporting issues.
• Ability to create efficient T-SQL objects and processes according to spec (databases, tables, stored procedures, business rules and functions).
• Advanced experience in T-SQL query optimization, troubleshooting and debugging.
• In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing and ETL framework.
• Advanced Knowledge of the Kimball data warehouse lifecycle.
• Expert Data warehousing experience using fact tables, dimensions and indexing.
• Experience in Table partitioning and efficient data migration.
• Expert experience in creating and maintaining multidimensional cubes using SSAS.
• Relevant Management certification may be required. (Advantageous)
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
• Willingness to build professional relationships with Team Members and Stakeholders and clients.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.

What You’ll Do:

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership to the Team through collaboration sessions and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Engage regularly with software architects in order to ensure the development within the Team is according to architectural guidelines.
• Collaborate with developers, designers/analysts, and architects to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Review checked-in code to ensure standards are met and the codebase remain sound.
• Ensure all technical solutions rolled out are compatible with other environments and dependencies; have high usability; are reliable to minimise downtime and perform efficiently during peak periods; and prioritise robust security (e.g., protection against third-party attacks, data privacy).
• Drive the adoption of processes that meet expectations for technical throughput, processing times, and efficient resource utilisation ensuring the system operates at maximum capacity when required.
  

Quality of Software Implementation

• Ensure rigorous testing of any solution before deployment and create standards and processes within the Team to align to these.
• Ensure the delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been tested thoroughly.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support load. Where possible work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
• Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

Initiative and Innovation

• Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team’s performance and company bottom line.
• Technical problems and opportunities are anticipated and dealt with immediately considering any technical dependencies.
• Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
• Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
• Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within team and to the wider group.
• Incorporates the new abilities into the day to day operational activities to improve performance of products and systems.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

Knowledge Share

• Identify team members requiring a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
• Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in transfer of the knowledge.

Coaching/Mentoring

• Provides guidance, training, and problem-solving assistance to other team members.
• Mentors and contributes to the growth of junior and intermediate team members.
• Designs and delivers end-user training and training materials.

Living the Spirit:

• Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team.
• Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team.
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
• Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.

The Company We Keep:

At BET Software, we don't just recruit talent, we cultivate it. Our learning and development programmes, our various opportunities for growth, and our well-deserved incentives are what keep our All-Star Team the best amongst the rest.


Please note only candidates who meet the minimum requirements will be considered.

If you have not been contacted within 30 days, kindly consider your application to be unsuccessful.