TransUnion

Analyst, Database Administration and Storage

Johannesburg Full time

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What We'll Bring:

What we offer
The duties and responsibilities described above are the essential functions of the job. The qualifications below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.TransUnion has a high performance culture and serves to promote and enable individuals to grow in their careers.

Who we are
A global leader in credit information and information management services, TransUnion gives businesses, consumers and the global community the power to achieve their goals. Businesses count on us to better manage risk and customer relationships. Consumers are able to better manage credit to achieve their financial goals. In communities around the world, we help build strong economies and give people the power to achieve their dreams. Exceptional opportunities are coming as we build on this strong foundation. Our ambitious growth strategy includes substantial new investment worldwide, a wide range of new solutions to help our clients succeed like never before, and new ideas for expanding our reach in every part of our dynamic and fast-moving industry. We’re on an exciting journey and you can be a part of it. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

What You'll Bring:

  • At least 1 year’s experience Supporting and Administering Tableau environment (Version 2020.4 experience preferred).

  • At least 1 year’s experience support business users from a Data Warehouse environment.

  • At least 1 year’s SQL Programming experience, in order to create reports using complex queries.

  • Participation in at least 2 major Data Warehouse projects.

  • Practical Involvement and experience in the full Data Warehouse development life cycle (At least 1 year’s experience required).

  • Tableau Report building and server administration

  • Tableau Prep Builder.

Python Skills with Ai capabilities

  • Dimensional Data Modeling and Design understanding required.

  • Practical Experience with MapR Hadoop (advantage).

  • Knowledge of Abinito (advantageous)

Impact You'll Make:

1. User Support

  • Administer the process for requesting information from the Big data Team and reporting to the Big Data Manager on all the requests processed each month.

  • Build and deliver key reports in Tableau and SSRS

  • Assist the marketing / Data Scientists / Sales department with product development utilizing the Data on Hive

  • Assisting users in customizing and automating reporting solutions.

2. Quality Assurance:

  • Ensure accurate, compliant reports with business value are being delivered according to Big data Reporting Standards.

  • Facilitation and alerting of Data Quality issues.

  • Assist in the testing of new data sets from iSpark as well as testing the validity of reports and analysis.

3. Report Development

  • Development, maintenance and automation of specialized reports.

  • Creating Adhoc reports by using the appropriate tools, e.g. Tableau, SSRS or HSQL and Python

4. Analysis/Design

  • Involvement in the full development life cycle, which may require tasks such as: Business Requirements,

  • Data analysis / profiling tasks.

5. Documentation

  • Data Analysis / profiling documentation.

6. Communication & Collaboration:

  • With Fellow Team members, business users, as well as subject matter experts to be able to translate business requirements into a report.

7.General

  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Analyst, Database Administration and Storage