Mr Price – IT

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Business Data Analyst (Apparel) Mr Price Group

Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa (On-site)

Job Description

The key focus of this role will be to provide analytic solutions that generate actionable insight across the business, primarily within the finance and merchandise space. This will range from project implementation and testing, analytical procedures to identify outliers/trends, investigate data discrepancies, searching for efficiencies in current processes, as well as designing and maintaining reports that allow business to make critical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the timely design and development of Tableau reports and analysis to various stakeholders.
• Designing and modelling data sources to cater for business requirements.
• Ensuring that reports and data sets answer key stakeholder questions and provide insight to allow stakeholders to make informed, data-driven decisions.
• Continuously ensure that all data is consistent, readily available and accurate
• Efficient ongoing analytics across various processes and initiatives.

Qualifications

• Degree in IT or related appropriate field
• Minimum 2 years’ experience, within retail fashion will be added advantage 

Attributes required & beneficial:

• Data modelling experience
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to manage small projects and interact with cross divisional role players
• Business Analyst experience
• SQL Development experience
• Experience with numerical packages like R or Python is helpful

Senior Business Analyst (Retail & Ecommerce) Technology

Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

Job Description

We have a requirement for a new Senior Business Analyst within our Retail and Ecommerce technology team.

Be part of dynamic and challenging projects that form part of exciting business transformation for our Group!

Responsibilities

• Initiate analysis workshops that utilise best practice techniques to encourage contributors to ‘think out of the box’ and define systems and processes that will enable the business to progress in line with strategy, demonstrating consistently high quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills.
• Strong ability to elicit and articulate business benefits and benefits realisation
• Analyse alternative solutions and make recommendations
• Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods and tools
• Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes
• Produce detailed Process Design and Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business staff, including senior stakeholders, at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change.
• Support all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release.

Qualifications

• Relevant IT or Business Degree/ Diploma
• 3 years’ experience as Business Analyst or relevant business experience in Retail, eCommerce, or an Omni channel environment.
• Demonstrated experience of assessing the costs and benefits of potential changes to business processes
• Knowledge of the Retail and Ecommerce sector and broad understanding of traditional and new technologies used in a retail and online environment is required.
• The type of person who will ask the right questions and probe where needed.
• Self-managed
• Able to generate enthusiasm amongst team members whilst innovating change
• Ability to understand, define and document business requirements in a clear manner that is relevant to current or proposed solutions
• Inquisitive and progressive mind set leading to the generation of new and different ideas 
• Ability to deal with stressful situations logically and calmly and see them through to a solution.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior business analysts.

POS Engineer Mr Price Group

Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

Job Description

Our POS Engineer will assist in researching and designing Point of Sale and other in-store associate and Customer-facing technologies. Ensure successful testing and rollout of technologies. Provide post-project issue resolution and support and input into the product documentation and support requirements for Omni Channel solutions.

Responsibilities

• In Store Product research, design and deployment- Assist in design and setup of solutions in development as required by internal and external solution providers.  Assists with the installation of in- development solutions, escalates to and resolves issues where required with internal teams and external suppliers.       
• Product Technical Documentation- Creates & distributes accurate technical documentation for Omni Channel solutions to stakeholders.     
• POC / POV Trial Site Support – Facilitates and performs installation of POS (Proof of Concept) POV (Proof Of Value) solutions, work with developers and system providers to ensure POC /POV can be implemented efficiently to enable the measurement and feedback required. 
• Post Project Escalation Support – Provides advanced technical support and guidance to stakeholders on solutions in use, facilitates efficient developer engagement to resolve complex / unknown solution issues arising from production              
• “Product Functionality – Provides input into product functionality based on feedback obtained through stakeholder engagement and experience of IT solution requirements in the Omni Channel environment 

Qualifications

• 3 Year IT Diploma/ Degree or CompTIA Certification         
• Diplomas: Minimum 5 Year IT Experience. 
• SQL Server, Database querying, Web Services, Office 365, Delphi Installation and fault finding, Point of Sale hardware PC and Peripherals. Point of Sale software and Integrations.
• Strong Point of Sale knowledge. Knowledge of Work Domain preferably IT solutions in a Omni Channel & In store environment        

Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.

Assistant Team Leader (Service Desk) Mr Price Group

Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

Job Description

Are you an excellent leader and communicator with great telephone and email etiquette? Do you have an affinity for troubleshooting computer and peripheral device problems? Do you enjoy developing and mentoring people? 

Then our position within our Service desk is a great first step into the IT field for you. 

Responsibilities

• Lead, monitor, support and mentor the Service Desk Technicians.
• Providing telephonic and email escalation support and troubleshooting to all Stores, within the Mr Price Group.
• Monitor and ensure delivery from external service providers to the agreed upon metrics.
• Collaborate with other teams to investigate and resolve problems.
• You will be required to work a maximum of 40 hours, over a maximum of 5 days per week including Saturdays and Sundays. 
• You would be required to work an 8-hour shift in line with the Service Desk operating hours. 
• Your own reliable transport is preferred. 

Qualifications

• Grade 12 
• IT Diploma/ Advanced Certificate
• At least 1 year in a leadership or similar type role.
• At least 3 years in an IT or Service Desk environment 
• The technical skills required is an excellent knowledge of computer hardware and software. Knowledge of our POS system would be a major advantage.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer-facing skills. Strong administration skills. 
• Strong ability to work accurately with attention to detail. 
• Familiarity with MS Office products.
• A high level of confidentiality.

Finance Systems Specialist (Technology) Mr Price Group

Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

Job Description

We’re looking for a system analyst whiz to add value to our Finance team!

You’d be involved in our new and enhancement projects in the Finance space, with a focus on our cloud based Dynamics365 finance system. You’ll be coming in more as the technical specialist in scoping and defining new projects and business requirements, that would drive the functional design and assist in technical design.

Responsibilities

• Resolving complex technical and financial issues that the primary support team cannot resolve
• Analyse trends in incidences reported & resolved to provide insights to developers and IT teams on areas of concern or repeated problems within applications or systems
• Document the process applied and resolution used to resolve incidences to maintain a library of knowledge to be shared with support & IT teams
• Proactively review all environments to ensure the mitigation of risks
• Address risks identified by internal and external audit 
• Ensuring compliance with best practice and standards
• Build a sustainable working relationship with customers to ensure good customer service
• Work with both internal and external teams to drive root cause resolution of incidents identified by primary support team
• Develop, enhance and maintain applications that conform to user requirements and specified architectural design
• Work with finance business users, internal technical teams and development partners to deliver effective new solutions and enhancements
• Conduct post implementation monitoring and support for new releases
• Mentor junior associates

Qualifications

• You’ve got a financial/accounting background and moved into the tech space
• You’re great at working with people
• You have at least 4 years’ experience working with Dynamics365 or a similar financial system
• You are that natural “go to person” for the team 
• You have a qualification in IT, finance, or business

BI Analyst Mr Price Group

Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

Trending

Job Description

The key focus of this role will providing analytic solutions that generate actionable insight across the business. This will range from once-off projects to identify outliers/trends, searching for efficiencies in current processes, as well as designing and maintaining reports that allow business to make critical decisions. 
 

Responsibilities

• Ensure the timely design and development of Tableau reports and analysis to various stakeholders.
• Designing and modelling data sources to cater for business requirements.
• Ensuring that reports and data sets answer key stakeholder questions and provide insight to allow stakeholders to make informed, data-driven decisions.
• Ensure data integrity across all Tableau reports.
• Continuously ensure that all data is consistent, readily available and accurate
• Maintaining Tableau Cloud (Data sources, workbooks, users, security etc.)
• Setting Tableau design standards, best practices etc.
• Efficient ongoing analytics across various processes and initiatives.
• User support on Tableau reporting.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Tableau
• Alteryx and/or SQL Development experience
• Data modelling experience
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to manage small projects and stakeholders
• Business Analyst experience

Beneficial to application:

• Retail Experience
• Exposure to Azure and cloud applications
• Experience with numerical packages like R or Python

Senior Developer Talent Pool

Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

Job Description

Do you want to be part of the team that builds the tools to take our business into the future?

Are you a passionate coder & team collaborator?

We’d love for you to be our next Senior Developer!

Responsibilities

Technical Design:

·        Provide technical knowledge to inform the project manager on expected project outcomes in the design phase, this includes providing timeframes, capabilities to achieve desired outcomes, project/change specifications, application specifications etc.

·        Ability to provide in-depth evaluation and analysis of unique complex technological issues.

·        Keep a breast of the latest changes in IT to provide insights and recommendations to the business in regards to optimisation & improvements to existing systems, and new development tools including changes in coding languages, new software and operating system releases, trends in development etc.

Project Execution & Development

·        Develop, enhance, maintain and deploy technical solutions that conform to specified architectural design to execute the project plan/change specification for the required application or solution ensuring adherence to project timelines and application works in the live environment

·        Design and write test cases for unit testing by the testing team to ensure that technical aspects of the application are fully stress tested and any bugs are fixed accordingly

·        Create documentation and user guides for technical aspects of applications or changes to inform stakeholders (testers, project managers, rollout team, end users etc.) of desired outcomes and use instructions for the application

Workflow Management & Junior Development mentorship

·        Review code from developers and junior developers and provide guidance &mentorship to grow their capability and ensure their coding is in line with coding standards through testing

·        Assign and manage developer workflow to ensure projects are completed on time, team are properly utilised and workflow is assigned evenly

Innovation

·        Research appropriate solutions and provide technical expertise and recommendations.

·        Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes.

·        Present / host tech sessions to showcase new innovations / tech

Qualifications

·        Diploma (Btech) or University Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

·        7+ years IT Experience:

·        Minimum 5 years relevant experience in coding in the following tech stack:

·        SQL

·        .Net Core or C#

·        Sound understand on Integration

·        Broad experience designing, programming, and implementing large information systems.

·        Experience with all elements of change control.

·        Experience in taking systems specification requirements and developing code with minimal supervision.

Advantageous:

·        Experience in

·        SQL Server Integration Server

·        WSO2 or similar Integration Suite

·        Cloud technologies

·        Project Management experience

IT Security Specialist Talent Pool

Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

Job Description

• Work with architects, system engineers and other IT support teams to define, guide, advise on security standards across the IT landscape, monitoring network activity to identify vulnerable points
• Design and configure security hardware and software
• Use the toolsets available to identify and detect intrusions on corporate network and endpoints; detect any unauthorized attempts to access the systems
• Solutionise by providing options for the IT network for enhancement to the security roadmap
• Train other employees on security best practices, mentoring to junior team members
• Monitor software and hardware for any possible cyber attacks
• Perform security assessments and conduct internal scanning on the network
• Analyze existing systems and make recommendations for changes or improvements
• Prepare reports, action plans and updating of the risk register
• Organize and conduct tests and “ethical hacks” of the existing company IT architecture
• Keep technical knowledge current through continuation of education
• Provide automation solutions as far as possible
• Serve as a security specialist and conduct training when required
• Draft policies, standard operating procedures and guidelines
• Prepare reports, action plans and updating of the risk register
• Be an active change advisory member by reviewing production changes
• Research and Design, benchmark, baseline exercises, trend analysis
• Align with enterprise’s security goals as established by its stated policies, procedures, and guidelines, and to actively work towards upholding those goals.

Responsibilities

·        3 years’ experience in a Security role

·        5+ years in an Infrastructure Back-end support environment and Implementation and deployment of enterprise solutions

·        Solid technical experience in Networking (LAN and WAN management, FW/Routers/Switches/Wifi/DHCP/DNS/DMZ/Edge/Segmentation etc).

·        Essential understanding of the response required in a Security Operations Centre.

·        Strong knowledge of design, test solutions, authentication methods, Windows, Apple & Linux operating systems, protocols, Data leakage, Mobile device management, endpoint, application, cloud solutions, identity and access management, penetration testing, web security, strong networking or Microsoft back-end experience.

·        Scripting and knowledge of the NIST and SANS framework would be advantageous.

·        Experience in Governance (POPI/Data Protection/PCI/Policy and Procedure) is required. Knowledge of current security risks and protocols, creation of policy, procedure and standards documentation.

·        Management of a Security information and event management environment

·        Design, test, implementation and support of vulnerability management solutions, authentication methods, email and collaboration tools

·        Windows, Apple & Linux operating systems, protocols, Mobile device management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention software, network, perimeter, endpoint, application, cloud solutions, identity and access management, penetration testing

·        Scripting and knowledge of the NIST and SANS framework would be a great advantage

·        Knowledge of current security risks and protocols, creation of policy, procedure and standards documentation.

·        Cloud security and controls

·        Soft Skills

·        An analytical mind with excellent problem-solving ability·        Strong communication and organization skills·        Strong Decision-making skills·        High performance individual·        Ability to work under pressure·        Team Player with a great attitude

Qualifications

Relevant IT degree and certifications in 1 or more of the following:

·        CompTIA Security+ CISSP

·        GIAC

·        Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

·        Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator

·        AWS Engineer

·        GSuite Engineer

·        Associate of ISC

·        Certified Cisco or Meraki Engineer

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