MTN Uganda Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is seeking to recruit a competent individual to fill the following Position;
Job Title: Senior Analyst – Big Data & Analytics
Reports to: Senior Manager – IT Design
Division: Technology
No. of Vacancies: 1

Main Job Functions:
• Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines that adhere to principles and business goals
• Solve complex data problems to deliver insights that helps the organization’s business to achieve their goals
Lead the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools and process for analytic data engineering in order to improve the organization’s productivity as a team
• Learn about machine learning, data science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, statistics, and/or applied mathematics
• Understand the customer/business needs, system functionality and business processes to maintain the source data and develop the data design

Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Analytics/Data science.
• Relevant certification/accreditation as required for role

Experience:
• 3 years’ experience in relevant sector/industry/ area of specialization
• Expertise in data analysis and experience with at least one programming language
Experience developing and maintaining data warehouses in big data solutions
• Experience with developing solutions on cloud computing services and infrastructure in the data and analytics space
• Database development experience y and experience with a variety of relational, database technologies
• Conceptual knowledge of data and analytics, such as dimensional modeling, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing, structured and unstructured data.
• Big Data Development experience
• Deep understanding of data ingestion techniques and analytics processes to enable real-time BI
• Exposure to machine learning, data science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, statistics, and/or applied mathematics

Skills/Competencies:
• Analytical skills
• Communication skills
• Conflict management skills
• Flexibility – the ability to adapt and change in the light of changing circumstances / new information. Negotiation skills
• Self-motivated with strong problem-solving and learning skills
Flexibility to changes in work direction as the project develops
• Excellent communication, listening, and influencing skills

Behavioural attributes:
• Ability to deal with high levels of ambiguity.
• Analytical
• Assertive
• Attention to detail.
• Communication
• Conceptual thinking
• Consultative approach
• Continuous improvement philosophy
• Decision making
• Emotional intelligence
• Integrity
• Planning and organising
• Quality assurance
• Results orientated.
• Solution providing
• Strategic thinking