TAFADZWA TAKAWIRA

Overseeing project execution via JIRA, designing ETL pipelines with DBT, Talend, and AWS Glue, and leading a team of data engineers. Responsible for hiring, mentoring, performance management, and ensuring data infrastructure meets business needs.

Performed data warehousing in SSIS and SSMS, optimized SSIS jobs and SQL queries, mentored junior associates, and developed Power BI reports for business intelligence insights.

Led migration from on-prem MSSQL to Snowflake, designed ETL pipelines using DBT, Talend, and AWS Glue, and developed Tableau reports for business intelligence insights.

Provided consulting on AWS QuickSight reporting and S3 cloud space management, troubleshot Redshift-S3 integrations, and assisted customers with Redshift data warehousing and Lambda serverless scripting.

Developed and architected BI chain performance reporting, performed query performance tuning, and worked with dimensions and fact tables using Kimball methodologies. Optimized SSIS jobs and managed database replication.

Architected data warehousing solutions using SSIS, SQL Server, and Linux, led ETL processes for EasyRoster integrating ERP and CRM data, and created SSRS reports for executive dashboards.

Maintained SQL Server databases, optimized indexes, performed backups, developed SAP BW data models, and scheduled SSRS report automation.

Provided database administration, SAP BW data modeling, and IT support, and assisted in user training and requirement analysis.

BSc (Hons) Information Systems degree from Midlands State University.

BSc Information Technology Degree, SAQA Level 7 (South Africa).

MCSA SQL Server 2012/2014 certification from Microsoft.

Azure Data Engineer certification (DP-200, DP-201) from Microsoft.

Certified Application Associate – SAP HANA 2.0 from SAP.

Certified Application Associate – BW/4HANA 2.x from SAP.

Data Warehousing & Engineering Essentials certification from Snowflake.