PBT Group, leaders in Business Intelligence, has an urgent requirement for Qlikview Developer for a position in Cape Town.

Qlikview Developer and Designer - key skills required:

The successful candidate must have a good, solid understanding of QlikView Developer and Designer with practical experience in the development lifecycle within the QlikView environment.

He/She must understand data warehouse terminology and concepts and must be able to work with multiple data sources (whether formal or informal). The person need to adhere to a very strict Change Control Methodology in promoting models into various environments and also design methodologies related to Best Practices and standards set by the Client.

As a team member this person needs to work with other developers in understanding the environments and potential impacts to fellow team members during the design lifecycle of models. Being part of the team this person should also need to identify potential enhancements to existing models and "the way we work".

An added benefit would be to have good presentation skills as it could be required that the candidate would need to engage with the Business from time to time but also be part of the internal PBT Group competency in which he/she needs to be able to present to a bigger group in sharing knowledge.

Required Skills:
- Data warehouse modeling skills is advantageous, in order to understand the data warehouse data models.
- A sound knowledge of SQL, or the language used to access the data warehouse from the access- or end-user reporting tools.
- A sound knowledge of the capabilities of the data access- and reporting tools, to know what their capabilities and shortcomings are – in order to exploit or avoid those aspects in the end user programs or reports.
- Keep abreast of new releases of these tools and work-arounds to overcome problem areas using these tools.
- Exposure to various BI front end applications, with working knowledge in at least one of them.
- Strong ability to analyse user requirements and build front-end BI applications according to specifications.
- Knowledge of scripting languages.
- Experience with one or more of the industry standard databases desired.
- Attention to detail and strong logical reasoning ability.
- Good communication skills.
- Pride of work, thoroughness and attention to detail.
- Create and maintain the end user applications, typically using off-the-shelf data access software or conventional query- and reporting tools.
- Develop the semantic layer, metadata, reports and report definitions.
- Develop graphs and portal interfaces.
- Load and maintain the metadata for the data access tool.
- Troubleshoot BI tools, systems and software; performance-tune these applications as necessary.
- Produce complex, efficient, error-free reporting solutions and related documentation.
- BI front end development on data structures, cubes, reporting, dashboards, etc.