Website Transnet
Transnet SOC Ltd is a large South African state-owned enterprise that manages the country's essential freight transport and logistics infrastructure, including its rail, port, and pipeline operations.
Transnet SOC Ltd is a large South African state-owned enterprise that manages the country’s essential freight transport and logistics infrastructure, including its rail, port, and pipeline operations. Transnet is a crucial component of the Southern African freight logistics chain, responsible for ensuring the country’s transport industries operate to world-class standards and form an integral part of the overall economy.
Position Purpose
- To bring forth critical Business Intelligence from multiples of process data information that cuts across all Transnet Engineering Business units.
- Implement solutions that require extraction, transformation and loading of key data from various sources into target platforms
- To analyse and understand critical reporting business requirements and interpret data into information the business can use in critical decision-making process
Position Outputs
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to translate business problems into business intelligence data designs. Integration, transformation, modeling and data validation
- Use a standardised approach and common understanding of operational imperatives, processes, and policies to achieve business goals.
- Perform SAP BW system configuration and development.
- Perform deployment of development objects throughout 3-tier landscape (Dev, QA, Production)
- Evaluating and improving existing BI systems
- Assist in developing and maintaining data models used to provide insights to management from multiple data sources
- Developing and maintaining dashboards and reports used by management and operations teams
- Compose functional & technical design document where applicable Intermediate SQL coding skills
- Experience working with commercial BI tools (desirable Power BI and SAP Webi).
- Develop User Manuals and provide training to ensure technical compatibility and End User satisfaction
- Mentor and assist junior developers
- Excellent research, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
- Understand data design and development across systems for BI reporting, data integration, analytics and data warehousing initiatives.
- Understand activities related to BI data governance and BI data management
- Adhere to practices for the business intelligence team, including SDLC, data integration, change control.
- Collaborate with other developers and remain abreast with new technologies within BI.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform
Qualifications and Experience
- National Diploma qualification in Information Systems or Computer Science or Information Technology. Minimum of 5 years’ experience in SAP BW. Minimum 3 years’ experience in the Microsoft Power Platform, particularly Power BI. SAP Certification will be an added advantage. OR Minimum 6 years’ experience in SAP BW. Minimum 3 years’ experience in the Microsoft Power Platform, particularly Power BI. SAP Certification will be an added advantage.
