Alternate Job Titles
Director Data Warehouse, Director Business Information, Director Business Info, Director Business Analytics, VP of Business intelligence, Chief Business Intelligence Officer
Job Level
C-Suite
Functional Group
Business Intelligence & Analytics
Job Family
Strategic Leadership
Job Description
- Oversee and direct high-level tactical and strategic choices about the organization’s use of business intelligence (BI) technologies and applications.
- Support the governance, design, execution, integration, and utilisation of organisational data initiatives.
- Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of business intelligence (BI) systems and applications.
- Ensure all technical issues are investigated and resolved.
- Ensure that corporate decision-making is improved through the usage of business intelligence solutions.
- Contribute to strategic choices that impact the functional domain of accountability.
- Oversee the collection, preparation, and storage of historical data, ensuring effective reporting, analytics, data exploration, and dissemination of business insights.
- Advise top management in identifying and prioritising the needs for data and information for establishing the organization’s BI strategy.
- Establish standards, guidelines, rules, and processes for the structure and characteristics of the business intelligence tools and systems, as well as testing methodology and criteria.
- Drive the creation and implementation of efficient reporting and data visualisation systems to assist organisational decision-making processes.
Critical Work Function
Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy Formulation and Implementation
- Define and communicate the organisation’s strategic direction and vision for business intelligence (BI) capabilities.
- Oversee the continuous development, maintenance, and optimisation of BI architecture and infrastructure.
- Establish a structured approach to assess business and information needs for improving processes, policies, and decision-making.
- Develop business cases, justification models, and ROI assessments to secure investment and stakeholder buy-in for BI initiatives.
- Lead stakeholder engagement to align BI solutions with strategic business goals and enterprise-wide priorities.
Business Intelligence (BI) Analytical Process
- Establish policies and standards to govern technology, architecture, and analytics of historical data.
- Provide strategic direction and guidance on the collection, integration, and structuring of operational data to support retrospective performance analysis and strategic insight generation.
- Establish standards for suitable data augmentation and organisation.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration to ensure BI initiatives align with organisational goals, enterprise data strategy, and decision-making frameworks.
Insight and Advisory on Business Intelligence (BI)
- Give clients and senior management access to BI insight updates and practical, actionable recommendations.
- Oversee the creation of reports, dashboards, and data visualisations that effectively translate complex findings into clear and impactful narratives.
- Guide the prioritisation and interpretation of key messages from analytical outputs to support data-driven storytelling and influence outcomes.
- Specify the framework and instruments that will be used in the design, development, and construction of visual dashboards and graphs.
Business Intelligence Governance and Standards
- Develop and implement guidelines, standards, and best practices for the structure, configuration, and operation of BI systems and tools.
- Develop long-term data governance programmes that gradually enhance the quality of data across all systems.
- Establish long-term data governance programmes to guarantee adherence to data security and privacy laws.
- Provide advice on BI data governance best practices.
Organisational Resource Management
- Review operational plans, policies, and team objectives to ensure alignment with organisational strategy.
- Develop resource allocation plans and monitor utilisation to maximise efficiency.
- Lead the development of learning roadmaps to support departmental skill advancement and BI capability growth.
- Define and evaluate performance metrics to benchmark learning and development initiatives
against industry standards. - Implement succession planning programmes for key managerial roles.
- Advocate for business intelligence (BI) and data driven decision-making across the organisation.
Entry Requirements
#1
Business Intelligence Director
BDQF Level 6 in Business information systems,
Information Technology, or related fields IT or
related field, with related industry certification and
minimum of 10 years’ experience at senior level or
BDQF Level 5 in Business information systems,
Information Technology, or related fields, with
related industry certification and minimum of 12
years’ experience at senior level
Skills & Competencies
Technical Skills
Soft Skills
Recommended Technical Training Courses
Google Business Intelligence Professional Certificate, Google
Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP), TDWI
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate, IBM
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
SAS Visual Business Analytics Specialist
AWS Certified Big Data
Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification
Tableau Certified Data Analyst