Teradata Developer (6 Month contract)
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum.
Our client within the financial services industry based in Johannesburg is looking for an Intermediate Teradata Developer to join their team.
Education & Experience required:
* IT Degree or Diploma
* Intermediate Teradata developer – To develop SQL queries for use in the semantic layer for example
* Knowledge of Teradata architecture
* Knowledge of query optimization
* Knowledge of creating a semantic layer – both for current view and historical data
* Can perform physical design of a Teradata database
* Java, Python and Atlassion knowledge beneficial – to assist with the automation of repetitive ETL and testing tasks
* Minimum 3 years experience on Teradata
Please Note:
* Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements as stated above.
* If your application be approved, we will contact you as soon as there is a suitable vacancy at one of our clients.
* Should you be successful, you will join one of our on-site teams and be able to rely on the help and support of fellow Digiterra employees as well as the relevant BDM.
* Should you not receive any response from us within 2 weeks, you can consider your application as unsuccessful for this specific position.
* We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting us with your confidential credentials and for your interest in Digiterra Group!
Informatica developer 6 months Contract
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum.
Our client within the financial services industry based in Johannesburg is looking for an Intermediate Informatica Developer to join their team.
Education & Experience Required:
* IT Degree or Diploma
* Minimum 2 years experience on Informatica
* Knowledge of Teradata
* Knowledge of creating ETL processes for a relational or dimensional database structure
* Knowledge of entire Informatica development stack
* Knowledge of Metadex and Informatica Metadata Manager required
* Knowledge of Hadoop beneficial
* Java, Python and Atlassion knowledge beneficial – to assist with the automation of repetitive ETL and testing tasks
Please Note:
* Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements as stated above.
* If your application be approved, we will contact you as soon as there is a suitable vacancy at one of our clients.
* Should you be successful, you will join one of our on-site teams and be able to rely on the help and support of fellow Digiterra employees as well as the relevant BDM.
* Should you not receive any response from us within 2 weeks, you can consider your application as unsuccessful for this specific position.
* We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting us with your confidential credentials and for your interest in Digiterra Group!
RPG Developer 12 months Contract
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum.
Our client within the financial services industry based in Johannesburg is looking for a Senior Developer to join their team.
Education & Experience Required:
* IT Qualification
* RPG Developer with 5-7 years experience of the following: RPG Free format, RPGLE, CLP programming, SQL, Rational Developer, Agile methodology and Testing)
* Must be an active member on Stackoverflow etc and have a valid Bitbucket / Git url with projects and work we can review
* RPG Backend Programs
Roles & Responsibilities:
* Interaction with end users to gather requirements.
* Interpretation and write up of business requirements.
* technical documents and program specifications.
* Requirement analysis and component design including detailed design and resolving design issues
* Impact analysis of change requests and issues/incidents and identification of solutions.
* including creation of appropriate documentation
* Planning and monitoring defect prevention activities
* Implementing and managing quality assurance processes.
* Software development and configuration.
* reation and validation of test plans.
* Providing direction and guidance to a team of developers including allocation and management of workload, Conducting code reviews.
Please Note:
* Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements as stated above.
* If your application be approved, we will contact you as soon as there is a suitable vacancy at one of our clients.
* Should you be successful, you will join one of our on-site teams and be able to rely on the help and support of fellow Digiterra employees as well as the relevant BDM.
* Should you not receive any response from us within 2 weeks, you can consider your application as unsuccessful for this specific position.
* We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting us with your confidential credentials and for your interest in Digiterra Group!
MI & BI Analytics (12 Month Contract)
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum. Digiterra is a business built around people – every member of our team shares a passion for innovation and a true commitment to our clients.
We are currently looking for MI and BI Analysts
Responsibilities
* To investigate, design and implement BI solutions in order to provide timeous and accurate reporting to business to enable informed decision making. This is to be achieved by having an intimate knowledge not only of data systems but also the core business drivers for reporting and tracking.
* Create Reports / Dashboards / Scorecards
* Convert data extracts from SQL server and disparate data sources into relevant information with relevant reporting tools (Excel, Power Point, Word, Oracle OBIEE, HTML) that enable reporting as required. This includes compiling management information (MI) and any other ad-hoc queries while adhering to agreed deadlines.
* Deliver relevant Management Information (MI) reports and Business Dashboards across strategic projects for business and operations to enable decision making. These include requests for structured or unstructured reports with automation via SAS, Microsoft HTML, or Oracle OBIEE.
* Identify new sources of data via requirements gathering and investigation when required by the business and ensure the data is developed into existing structures for future use. * Maintain all existing reports on the system by ensuring relevance for decision making and sound data governance practice
* Understand key business drivers and develop MI reports to track and monitor for the purposes of decision making
* Requirements Gathering / Relationship Building
* Engage with teams both daily and through standard team meetings to ensure that objectives and priorities are reflected in the agreed solutions and according to the project needs.
* Actively engage with stakeholders e.g. Corporate banking, Operations and project stakeholders, through formal and informal meetings to be fully involved in the development process and delivery of MI reporting solutions
* Lead internal meetings and forums where information is to be presented to internal stakeholders.
* Governance and Compliance
* Adhere to the core Data Governance disciplines as defined by the DGO (Absa Data Governance Organisation) when performing business intelligence activities. This includes: data quality management, information lifecycle management and information security and privacy.
* Conduct integrity checks regularly both when developing new reports and executing existing scripts to ensure correct data is incorporated into the reports and all data quality principles are adhered to.
* Escalate issues identified to the Operations Lead and Migration Lead and work with them to improve data quality and definitions.
* Project Management
* Create project plans when necessary in order to better manage required outcomes by gathering all the necessary information from all sources such as IT, Product Managers across the Business etc.
* Manage workload according to created plans to ensure timeous delivery of projects by constantly communicating timelines to the relevant internal/external stakeholders.
Education and Experience Required
* 4 years’ experience in management information role
* 3 years’ experience with the use of analytical tools such as SAS or MS SQL
* 3 years’ experience in requirements gathering and documentation
* 3 years’ experience in a multi project environment
* NQF Level 6: B Degree in Business Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Studies, or similar with a focus on either systems or databases.
Preferred
* 4 years’ Experience in the Financial Services Industry
* 4 years’ Experience in BI toolsets advantageous
* BComm Informatics/ BComm Information Systems
MI & Analytics Manager (5 Month Contract)
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum. Digiterra is a business built around people – every member of our team shares a passion for innovation and a true commitment to our clients.
We are currently looking for a MI and Analytics Manager
Responsibilities
* Oversee and manage the effective provision of key insights, information solutions and value adding advanced analytics that will facilitate the effective formulation of information-based propositions to drive purposeful, client-centric activity and strategies.
* Oversee the Development of Management InformationOversee the development and implementation of an effective reporting framework, including a self-help platform.
* Oversee the Development of Business Intelligence
* Oversee the collaboration of immediate team with other internal stakeholders to resolve database challenges related to data definitions or quality or time delivery of data.
* Set up processes and protocol to continuously measure monthly performance against intent, looking for anomalies, gaps and opportunities, and oversee the production thereof.
* Oversee the sourcing, analyzing and interpretation of content and trends with accompanied profiling, insights and commentary.
* Oversee the development of appropriate scorecards and dashboards for business performance measures. Ensure that adequate and reliable data will be available to populate the scorecards and dashboards at the required intervals.
* Lead and inspire team members to deliver extraordinary work
* Engender an atmosphere of trust and open dialogue in order to expose the business reality at all times
* Agree targets and take accountability for the overall achievement of performance objectives in the department in terms of employee satisfaction, customer experience, cost performance, return on investments, risk, and compliance and governance requirements.
* Manage departmental budgets including signing off of invoices and quotes within mandate.
* Ensure processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that have been designed for the MI & BI team are understood by all stakeholders and regularly reviewed and updated
Education and Experience Required
B-degree in Information Management or Science or similar (NQF level no.6
* 5 years work experience in information management and/or IT in a financial services environment
* 5 years Financial Data Management experience
3 years Experience in successful business and technology enterprise transformation and experience in developing standards and process
Project Manager – 12 Month Contract
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum.
Qualification & Experience Required:
7-10 years experience in the following:
* Managing large project teams within financial services
* Managing budgets and ensuring delivery within budget
* Creating and managing project plans and ensuring deadlines associated with deliverables and other tasks are met
* Effort and resource estimation; establishing a team, assigning responsibilities and setting team direction
* Understanding, communicating and managing the overall direction of projects to ensure that client objectives are me
* Stakeholder management – managing client expectation and satisfaction and ensuring deliverable content and quality
* Managing project scope, and proactively identifying and resolving client challenges
* Managing changes to scope and project plans
* Identifying risks, issues and mitigations and managing these during the lifecycle of a project
Duties & Responsibilities:
* Responsible for management of highly complex programs consisting of multiple related projects.
* Oversee major projects, providing strategic context, direction and leadership to the teams involved.
* Monitor project execution plans, resource deployment and overall coordination efforts to ensure projects are completed on schedule and to budget.
* Role responsibilities include components of: resource management, finance management, quality management and control management
Please Note:
* Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements as stated above.
* If your application be approved, we will contact you as soon as there is a suitable vacancy at one of our clients.
* Should you be successful, you will join one of our on-site teams and be able to rely on the help and support of fellow Digiterra employees as well as the relevant BDM.
* Should you not receive any response from us within 2 weeks, you can consider your application as unsuccessful for this specific position.
* We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting us with your confidential credentials and for your interest in Digiterra Group!
Project Scheduler – 12 month contract
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum.
Qualification & Experience Required:
* Certified MS Project 2010 or higher training required;
* Fully computer literate using main applications of MS Office i.e. Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
* Project Management Qualification.
* Agile training from a recognised institution.
* 3 to 5 years’ experience in planning and scheduling projects and/or programmes is essential.
* 3 to 5 years’ experience using MS Project 2010 or higher.
* Demonstrated capability of applying and analysing advanced scheduling techniques such as critical path method, PERT analysis and earned value management.
* Demonstrated strategic planning abilities on programme schedules and flight plans.
Duties & Responsibilities:
* Assist with the creation and planning of work breakdown structures using a product backlog or scope of work document to ensure alignment between the documentation and schedules.
* Facilitate and gather information required to build a project / programme schedules using either a waterfall or agile approaches.
* Engage with project stakeholders to define a flight plan that defines all major project deliverables and milestones.
* Evaluate existing project schedules to identify and correct schedule inconsistencies in accordance with company defined scheduling standard, policies and procedures as well as identified industry best practices.
* Proactively manage the critical path and project dependencies both internally and externally of the programme and its sub projects.
* Evaluate and report any variances from the baseline and deviation from the critical path to the necessary stakeholders.
* Align the schedule cost in accordance with the approved financial business case.
* Manage the overall maintenance of the project and programme schedules against governance standards and exception reports.
* Maintain a reporting routine in order to capture and report on project progress if one has not been defined.
* Extract information from all project management defined tools and provide weekly status updates regarding planned vs. actuals to the programme manager for reporting purposes.
* Collaborate with project managers to evaluate project schedule progress or status and take corrective action where required.
* Provide recommendations based on trends and forecasts.
* Assess project scope change request impacts on the project schedule and across the programme.
* Review any conflict or capacity issues regarding resource requirements based on the capacity and demand model.
* Facilitate scenario planning across sub projects / programme and evaluate schedule impacts for reporting on request.
* Integrate any external vendor schedules within the sub projects / programme based on strategic dates defined and planned if required.
Please Note:
* Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements as stated above.
* If your application be approved, we will contact you as soon as there is a suitable vacancy at one of our clients.
* Should you be successful, you will join one of our on-site teams and be able to rely on the help and support of fellow Digiterra employees as well as the relevant BDM.
* Should you not receive any response from us within 2 weeks, you can consider your application as unsuccessful for this specific position.
* We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting us with your confidential credentials and for your interest in Digiterra Group!
Project Coordinator – 12 month contract
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum.
Please note this is a contractual role and not permanent
Qualification & Experience Required:
– Matric/Grade 12/Senior Certificate
– Diploma
– 2-3 years general administration of which 1 year should be in a PM environment
Roles & Responsibilities:
– Ensure all project data, tracking and feedback is updated on central database
– Manage the procurement contracts related to the project and escalate deviations from terms and conditions
– Log and track project change control to completion
– Manage the communication plan and distribution to stakeholders as per project plan
– Ensure all project documentation meets all governance and audit standards to mitigate project risk
Please Note:
* Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements as stated above.
* If your application should be approved, we will contact you as soon as there is a suitable vacancy at one of our clients.
* Should you be successful, you will join one of our on-site teams and be able to rely on the help and support of fellow Digiterra employees as well as the relevant BDM.
* Should you not receive any response from us within 2 weeks, you can consider your application as unsuccessful for this specific position.
* We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting us with your confidential credentials and for your interest in Digiterra Group!
Data Centre Operator – 6 month contract
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum.
Qualification & Experience Required:
* Matric
* Knowledge of Server administration and monitoring tools, advanced.
* IT Service Management Experience, advantageous.
* Minimum 2 years’ Financial Services Industry experience(advantageous)
Duties & Responsibilities:
* A Global Data Centres Operator is responsible for delivering quality & timely completion of activities (e.g. installations, planned maintenance, access controls). They assist their colleagues (cross-team collaboration) and their Team Leader in ensuring installation standards; planned change/physical access activities and planned maintenance provide environmental stability.
* Plan, install, maintain, customize, deploy and configure servers / server environment to meet by business and technology requirements.
* Perform maintenance and upgrade of the server environment in keeping with policies and / or requirements.
* Perform diagnostics, trouble-shooting and analysis to resolve failures, issues and faults in the server environment.
* Ensure that the uptime, performance, resources, and security of the server environment meet user / business requirements.
* Perform user management activities such as user creation, deletion, modification
* The Data Centre operator is responsible for:
* Ensuring availability of servers to meet business requirements and agreed service levels
* Providing server access in keeping with requirement to users while ensuring adherence to policies
* Performing maintenance, upgrades, replacements in the server environment with minimal disruption to services
* Monitoring server environment performance and utilization, and recommend actions for improvement.
* Delivery & Support
* Progress installation, de-installation, cabling change requests to agreed SLAs
* Provide updates to team leader to ensure floor plan & capacity data is maintained
* Provide updates to their installation, de-installation activity stakeholders
* Configures the infrastructure environment as required by the service being implemented or revised.
* Ensure best practice, process, policy and controls are adhered to, identifying improvements across the data centre and computer room estate.
* The drawing in of specialised expertise wherever appropriate, and the provision of advice and information aimed at minimising the occurrence and impact of service incidents through process improvement.
* Ensures that all requests from users for assistance are handled promptly and effectively. Is pro-active to ensure that users make effective use of the facilities available to them.
* Will perform standby when required on hardware calls
* Monitor & Evaluate
* Ensure that all critical systems are monitored by and integrated with system management tool.
* Analyze system logs and identify potential issues with server systems.
* Perform regular system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability servers, review system and application logs, and verify completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
Please Note:
* Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements as stated above.
* If your application be approved, we will contact you as soon as there is a suitable vacancy at one of our clients.
* Should you be successful, you will join one of our on-site teams and be able to rely on the help and support of fellow Digiterra employees as well as the relevant BDM.
* Should you not receive any response from us within 2 weeks, you can consider your application as unsuccessful for this specific position.
* We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting us with your confidential credentials and for your interest in Digiterra Group!
Analyst (BI and MI) – 6 month contract
Digiterra is a multinational software and consulting group that provides sustainable resource, process or technology solutions to address a wide range of challenges throughout the business to IT continuum.
Qualifications & Experience Required:
* Four (4) years’ experience in management information role
* Three (3) years’ experience with the use of analytical tools such as SAS or MS SQL
* Three (3) years’ experience in requirements gathering and documentation
* Three (3) years’ experience in a multi project environment
* NQF Level 6: B Degree in Business Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Studies, or similar with a focus on either systems or databases.
Preferred:
* Four (4) years’ Experience in the Financial Services Industry
* Four (4) years’ Experience in BI toolsets advantageous
* BComm Informatics
* BComm Information Systems
Duties & Responsibilities:
To investigate, design and implement BI solutions in order to provide timeous and accurate reporting to business to enable informed decision making. This is to be achieved by having an intimate knowledge not only of data systems but also the core business drivers for reporting and tracking
* Convert data extracts from SQL server and disparate data sources into relevant information with relevant reporting tools (Excel, Power Point, Word, Oracle OBIEE, HTML) that enable reporting as required. This includes compiling management information (MI) and any other ad-hoc queries while adhering to agreed deadlines.
* Deliver relevant Management Information (MI) reports and Business Dashboards across strategic projects for business and operations to enable decision making. These include requests for structured or unstructured reports with automation via SAS, Microsoft HTML, or Oracle OBIEE.
* Identify new sources of data via requirements gathering and investigation when required by the business and ensure the data is developed into existing structures for future use.
* Maintain all existing reports on the system by ensuring relevance for decision making and sound data governance practice
* Understand key business drivers and develop MI reports to track and monitor for the purposes of decision making
* Actively engage with stakeholders e.g. Corporate banking, Operations and project stakeholders, through formal and informal meetings to be fully involved in the development process and delivery of MI reporting solutions
* Create project plans when necessary in order to better manage required outcomes by gathering all the necessary information from all sources such as IT, Product Managers across the Business etc.
Please Note:
* Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements as stated above.
* If your application be approved, we will contact you as soon as there is a suitable vacancy at one of our clients.
* Should you be successful, you will join one of our on-site teams and be able to rely on the help and support of fellow Digiterra employees as well as the relevant BDM.
* Should you not receive any response from us within 2 weeks, you can consider your application as unsuccessful for this specific position.
* We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting us with your confidential credentials and for your interest in Digiterra Group!