Undertakes analytical activities and delivers analysis outputs, in accordance with customer needs and conforming to agreed standards.
Specialist advice
Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organizations planning and operations.
Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.
Emerging technology monitoring
Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization.
Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.
Data modelling design
Investigates corporate data requirements, and applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
Provides advice and guidance to database designers and others using the data structures and associated components.
Database design
Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities.
Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, to evaluate alternative options.
Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.
Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.
Programming/software development
Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues work.
Testing
Reviews requirements and specifications and defines test conditions.
Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting outcomes.
Analyses and reports test activities and results.
Identifies and reports issues and risks associated with own work.
Datamanagement
Assists in providing accessibility, retrievability, security and protection of data in an ethical manner.