PBT Group has an opportunity for a QlikView Front End Developer.

Established as an information management services company in 1998, PBT Group offers specialised consulting services to large national and international clients across Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe.

With extensive experience as data specialists, PBT Group is a recognised leader in this field, which includes data platform, data analytics, data visualisation, application development, cloud solutions and strategic consulting.

PBT Group has a staff complement of more than 520 skilled and professional consultants and has established strategic alliances with recognised local and international vendors. Our consultants have a strong entrepreneurial culture and a sincere commitment to providing the highest levels of service and the most appropriate solutions to our clients.

PBT Group maintains a product independent approach, enabling it to deliver real and sustainable value to clients who represent a variety of industries including banking, insurance, healthcare and telecommunications. Our strong partner network enables the use of the Group’s technology expertise to best support our clients’ specific business needs.

Duties:
- 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.

Experience:
- Data warehouse modelling 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.

Qualifications/ Certification:
- Relevant data warehouse and BI solution training is essential.
- B.Sc. or related degree is advantageous.
- FE Development experience is required, but the candidates can be trained in QlikView.