Data Visualization Developer at Co-operative Bank Kenya

Job Details

We are seeking an enthusiastic team player to join our supportive, inclusive, and dynamic team as a Data Visualization Developer who will collaborate with a variety of partners within the Bank to distill data into actionable and intuitive visualizations that drive informed decisions.

As a member of this team, you will enable data-driven decision making by developing and performing analysis, modelling, and visualization of unstructured data for engineering and research design teams. You will be working with many cross-functional teams and will need to have a passion for creating informative visualizations and presentations to communicate results to all levels of the company.

Reporting to Head – Business Intelligence, the Data Visualization Developer will be responsible for the detailed analysis, design and development of business intelligence dashboards and reports from the data warehouse and ad hoc data sources. Additionally, he/she will be required to will provide technical support to the various business units by developing reports, dashboards, and data extraction queries of varying difficulty. Knowledge of design tools, visualization concepts, OBIEE, Oracle Visualizer, business intelligence systems, query technologies, databases and ETL tools is highly preferred.

The successful jobholder will be expected to:

• Participate in business analysis activities to gather required reporting and business requirements and translate these requirements into specifications that will be used to implement the required reports and dashboards, created from potentially multiple data sources.
• Provide support as required to ensure the availability and performance of developed reports and dashboards for both external and internal users.
• Provide technical assistance and cross training to other team members ensuring proper configuration management and change controls are implemented in their sphere of influence.
• Design and implement technology best practices, guidelines and repeatable processes while ensuring compliance with development life cycle including documentation, programming, testing and deployment.
• Identify, describe and apply the current technology for data analytics using data warehousing systems, other integrated systems and visualization tools like OBIEE.
• Develop/maintain data transformations for reports and dashboards.
• Analyze data and designs dashboards in Oracle per user requirements.
• Create and maintain metadata, security rules, database connection information and SQL used by OBIEE application using Oracle Admin tool.
• Troubleshoot visualization issues in presentation layer tools and offer immediate solutions.
• Design, develop and implement solutions that meet operational improvement needs. Ensure that relevant stakeholders support decisions.
• Provide a business-based rationale for determining the necessity of incremental improvements and communicate viewpoint using the customers’ own terminology.
• Create mobile solution for executive level data visualization, identify the cost benefits of deployed BI solutions and track consumption of reports and dashboards by business users.
• Conduct prototypes, developing functional specifications, data mapping, function mapping, setting of configuration tables and setting of transaction/ control tables.
• Assist in security/ authorization set-up, user documentation, data interface design, data migration and reconciliation.
• Act as the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams on data visualization and demonstrate operational agility in delivering BI solutions.