Responsible for assessing, scoping, and\/or developing\/redeveloping business cases and processes for deployment through the DaaS environment. This requires consulting type business engagement to identify appropriate applications for the DaaS environment be scoped, developed, deployed and monitored. This includes collection of requirements for deployment from business, conducting pre deployment analysis of commercial and operational metrics to quantify baseline activity and potential uplift and communication thereof to onboard and upskill stakeholders. Scoped developments will need to be appropriately prioritised and briefed into the BluNova team. Performance of deployments must be tested, simulated or modeled, and then monitored to actively drive continuous improvement of existing use cases and drive expanded application of new use cases. The overall output will be a sustainable solution\/ product that creates measured business value to the respective segments within the group with further potential to the external market<\/p>\n
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Job Title: Senior Decision Engineer<\/strong> Strategy:<\/strong> Delivering Decisioning as a Service (DaaS) (Business Decisioning and Process Automation, Improvement, Monitoring and Development) Applied Analytics, Modelling and Data Scienc<\/strong>e: Stakeholder Management:<\/strong> Security and Compliance:<\/strong> Requirements:<\/strong> Manages Complexity EDUCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n Matric EXPERIENCE:<\/strong>
\nLocation:<\/strong> Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa
\nReference #:<\/strong> B358
\nContract Type:<\/strong> Permanent
\nSalary:<\/strong> Market Related<\/p>\n
\nFacilitate the delivery of the BluNova Strategy both in BluNova and relevant business partners.
\nSupport and enable the roll out of Decisioning as a Service (DaaS) capabilities through relevant channels and businesses (be the face of the delivery of DaaS and entrench and grow the understanding, application and development of the DaaS environment within their businesses).
\nDrive entrenchment, and then expansion of decisioning led practices at an operational level by providing leadership and foresight through insight and demonstrating value from applications.
\nRequires understanding the business needs, building appropriate DaaS solution(s), appropriately capturing and communicating value added and
\ngarnering buy-in from affected businesses and their employees.
\nHelp to shape partner business\u2019 strategies and to guide good operational decision making through insight from the BluNova capabilities. This involves effective application of DaaS to provide solutions that meet specific current and future business needs and goals BLT Business\u2019 and select associates.
\nStaying up to date with, developing and driving dissemination and adoption of best in class technologies, techniques, tactics and tools for effective delivery of DaaS across the BluNova team and business partners.
\nPlan and develop decision support systems through technical leadership.<\/p>\n
\nWork with stakeholders throughout the organisation to understand business models, value drivers, needs and context in order to identify transformational opportunities through leveraging BluNova\u2019s data assets and the DaaS platform.
\nIdentify, assess and map business process, product and analytical model requirements for appropriate development, redevelopment and\/or deployment into the DaaS environment.
\nProvide a technical leadership role in the build and design of decision management strategies, solution development to optimise business ends,
\nprocess automation, consumer initiatives, analytics frameworks, decisioning solutions and best practices within the business.
\nOperationalise solutions, models, strategies and relevant applications through the DaaS environment.
\nAchieve revenue targets by supporting and developing further applications to be applied to\/through DaaS.
\nDesign and develop data reporting for relevant business operations (through provided DaaS or external BI solutions).
\nPerform impact analysis, modelling, logic testing, and simulations on solutions, applications, campaigns, models etc. which may be intended to be deployed.
\nMentorship of the DaaS capability within BluNova and relevant business partners, developing the skill set and deploying solutions.
\nTroubleshoot and resolve system problems in a timely fashion.
\nRecommend appropriate enhancement of DaaS systems and applications.
\nData Gathering and Curation and Data Evangelism and Solution\/Product Innovation
\nUnderstand the breadth of BluNova\u2019s data sets and engage in interactive data exploration and data-driven story-telling to communicate or apply this in business.
\nSource and motivate for new data and\/or features (both within and external to partner companies) that may be required to deliver DaaS or modelling requirements.
\nEnsure that informative datasets are appropriately served for analytics and BI applications inside and outside of BluNova as required.
\nDescribe and motivate for changes in data requirements for the data engineer and\/or data scientist to include in the pipeline.
\nInfluence the architecture of data structures and feature sets so that they (1) facilitate diverse and detailed analyses (2) enable large scale processing, (3) manage data sensitivity and (4) promote future applications of the DaaS environment.
\nProvide technical competence through knowledge sharing and explanation within contexts and levels of detail that recipients may appreciate to up-skill decision engineering team members.
\nHelp drive day-to-day research and analytics efforts while delivering high impact, actionable insights.
\nAvailability as a DaaS solution subject matter expert.
\nPromote data driven business approach through leveraging the PLM framework.
\nOwnership and Input into the business case across uses cases in the BluNova pipeline.<\/p>\n
\nCollaborate with data engineer(s), data scientists(s) and\/or software developer(s) to scope, monitor and maintain the analytics environment to, enable data modelling, exploration, mining at scale and product development thereof.
\nTake the lead to contribute to the development and communication of recommendations.
\nDevelop the relevant mechanisms to monitor data and model integrity and accuracy in DaaS applications.
\nTest all upgrades and changes to applications within the DaaS platform for any errors.
\nTroubleshoot and resolve problems identified in a timely fashion.
\nRecommend enhancements to models, applications, processes and systems.
\nProductionalise developed models into DaaS
\nResponsible for the development of annual operating budgets.<\/p>\n
\nUnderstand business operations and issues or bottlenecks communicated by management or operational teams and identify areas where we may.
\nTake ownership in solution deployment, expansion of applications, data gathering, data analysing activities and stakeholder buy in and engagement.
\nWork with management to prioritise requirements and synthesis information needs.
\nPresent and depict the rationale of findings in an easy to understand format for business users to consume.
\nCommunicates and develop relationships with business, partners, suppliers and subject matter experts as.
\nCollaborate closely with other teams to formulate analytically driven best-of class solutions and directly contribute to a variety of validation activities such as analysis design, execution and assessment; data review; and campaign performance evaluation.<\/p>\n
\nWorks with the ISO to ensure that the information used adheres to the regulatory and security policies and agreements in place and provides motivation to improve upon these where possible.
\nQualifies where information can be stored or what information, external to the organisation, may be used in support of the use case.
\nCollaborates with the ISO to ensure that the information used follows the compliance, access management, and control policies and that it meets the qualification and assurance requirements of the Group.<\/p>\n
\nBEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCollaborates
\nCommunicates Effectively
\nBalances Stakeholders
\nBeing Resilient
\nAction Planning<\/p>\n
\nSTEM Bachelor\u2019s degree (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Sciences, and related quantitative fields).<\/p>\n
\nMinimum of 5 to 10 years\u2019 experience in similar role.
\nExperience with Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, etc. preferred
\nExperience with cloud based environments preferred.
\nSubstantial technical experience as a decision service strategy developer in an associated platform such as Powercurve or FICO Blaze etc.
\nExperience with business process modelling and associated software Hands-on experience with data management and curation. Experience with databases and data warehouses such as SAP, SQL, Oracle, DB2.
\nUnderstanding of business cases and the concept of ROI
\nAbility to assess feasibility, viability and impact of projects and associated sub components
\nExpertise in using Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, outlook)
\nUnderstanding of Agile methodologies for rapid development.
\nAbility to visualize data and communicate story.<\/p>\n