Senior Advisor Intermediate IT Development

About the role

Position/Task Grade: G14 Area of specialization: To design, develop, and maintain data analytics solutions and supporting data management capabilities that enable the business to discover, understand, govern, and use trusted data effectively and efficiently, in accordance with Group IT’s strategy and service offering. Department: Data Analytics - CoE Business Unit: Enterprise Data And Analytics Location: Megawatt Park - Gauteng Reference Number: 50887946MK Closing Date: 29 October 2026

Responsibilities

• Behavioural
• Integrity
• Honesty
• Trustworthiness
• Professionalism
• Attention to detail and commitment to data quality
• Ability to collaborate with business, data, and technology stakeholders
• Leadership
• Live the Eskom vision and values
• Grow people
• Ignite passion
• Promote teamwork
• Encourage the right behaviour
• Promote open and transparent communication
• Promote responsible, consistent, and governed use of enterprise data
• Encourage knowledge sharing and common understanding of business data
• Knowledge
• Understanding of an IT environment
• Expert understanding of IT procedures and guidelines
• Knowledge of ISO 9001
• Knowledge of Data Bases, Operating Systems and software applications
• Certified Software Developer
• Knowledge of data analytics concepts, reporting solutions, and analytical data requirements
• Knowledge of data management principles, including business, technical, and operational data management.
• Understanding of business glossaries, data dictionaries, data catalogues, and metadata repositories
• Understanding of data lineage, data classification, data ownership, and data stewardship
• Knowledge of data quality principles, controls, standards, and issue management
• Understanding of data governance policies, standards, and supporting processes
• Skill
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Business acumen
• Project Management
• System Configuration
• Ability to analyse data requirements and translate them into technical and analytical solutions
• Ability to capture, organise, maintain, and communicate metadata
• Ability to define and maintain business terms, data definitions, and data relationships
• Ability to support metadata discovery, lineage analysis, and data-quality assessment
• Ability to communicate data insights clearly to business and technical stakeholders
• Ability to work with data owners, data stewards, analysts, developers, and subject-matter experts
• Key Responsibilities
• Respond promptly and professionally to bug reports
• Build efficient and reusable services.
• Perform systems design and analysis
• Perform unit testing of modules
• Advise and coach Junior Developers

Requirements

• Qualification(s)
• B Degree / Tech in Information Management / Information Technology
• at NQF 7 with 360 Credits
• Related Experience
• 4 years’ Proven experience as a Software Developer or similar role Knowledge of coding languages (e.g. C#, Java, JavaScript) and frameworks/systems (e.g. AngularJS, Git)
• Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping
• (ORM) frameworks (e.g. Hibernate)