Data warehousing specialist career

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Data warehousing specialists manage an organisation's data warehousing activities. They may develop computer programmes, processes and procedures for data management.

Data warehousing specialists manage an organisation's data warehousing activities. They may develop computer programmes, processes and procedures for data management.

What would you do as a Data warehousing specialist?

Data warehousing specialists

  • usually work regular business hours but may work weekends or evenings
  • usually work in officesand data centres and may travel nationally or internationally
  • need to be methodical, accurate and identify and solve problems

Tasks

  • design and build data storage systems
  • create and improve software programs
  • analyse data
  • set data management standards
  • assess data quality
  • create process diagrams and charts
  • build system models
  • write computer programming code
  • fix computer system issues

How can you become a Data warehousing specialist?

You usually need experience and a qualification to become a data warehousing specialist.

You may need

  • experience in similar work
  • experience with relevant software systems
  • a relevant tertiary qualification in computer science, mathematical sciences or similar area
  • to be certified with Information Technology Professionals New Zealand (ITPNZ)

If you're in school

You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job.

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Study programming, software design and databases in our Bachelor of Computer Science, or choose a Computer Science or Data Analytics major in our Bachelor of Science. Like all our undergraduate degrees, both include work-integrated learning.

If you already have a degree, our graduate certificates and diplomas let you move into data quickly, including business analytics with a focus on managing big data. You can go further with our Master of Data Science, or learn to govern data in line with Indigenous data principles through our Postgraduate Certificate in Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Analytics.

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