Total 3 job vacancies by DFI Retail Group

DFI Retail Group (the ‘Group’) is a leading pan-Asian retailer. At 31st December 2021, the Group and its associates and joint ventures operated over 10,200 outlets and employed some 230,000 people. The Group had total annual sales in 2021 exceeding US$27 billion.

The Group (including associates and joint ventures) operates under several well-known brands across food, health and beauty, home furnishings, restaurants, and other retailing. DFI digital is a new entity by DFI retail group to provide more advanced online shopping experience. The ecommerce platform includes all the ventures and bring it together under one hat. The Group provides quality and value to Asian consumers by offering leading brands, a compelling retail experience and great service; all delivered through a strong store network supported by efficient supply chains.

Headquarters in Hong Kong, DFI Digital was set up to innovate and optimize our customer's experience through digital transformation. Our customers start with our very own employees, as we believe that talents are core to an organization’s success. As our HR transformation follows suit, our objective is to deliver an engaging and pleasant employment experience, automate processes, provide data driven support to our business leaders and finally an employee centric environment for our talents.

Responsibilities:

• Lever critical technical skills to ensure the IT infrastructure asset is built and maintained in an efficient and cost-effective manner
• Develop and input into crucial technology Infrastructure Engineering Lifecycle documentation, such as component version and patch management decisions
• Effectively manage the technical implementation and subsequent change on the IT infrastructure asset
• Determine how to leverage enabling technologies to implement innovative IT infrastructure solutions to support the business
• Track the infrastructure requirements, and manage technical change throughout the delivery life cycle
• Assist and help as required with the resolution of complex tier 3 operational incidents and determine the root cause of the problem
• Schedule and actively manage the business as usual changes within the IT infrastructure asset to deliver a best in class level of successful change
• Work closely with upstream stakeholders such as solution architects and IT strategy teams to ensure the IT infrastructure asset is delivered in line with the strategic roadmap
• Maintain timely and accurate communications with Project Managers throughout the delivery life cycle to ensure the IT infrastructure risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies are correctly tracked
• Communicate the proposed design solutions to the stakeholders, and help to guide decisions regarding trade-offs that may impact the requirement or delivery timescales for infrastructure solutions
• Keep abreast of the latest IT infrastructure technology trends and technologies to allow these to be levered to the business benefit of the Company
• Build and maintain strong relationships with essential hardware and software vendors and delivery partners
• Proactively draw out all types of requirements on the IT Infrastructure from stakeholders using a variety of elicitation techniques (e.g. interviewing, modelling, and surveying)
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details and distinguish users' requests from the underlying business problems
• Provide technical advice to Information Technology (IT) colleagues on the use of the IT infrastructure asset
• Wireless Network Implementation (Aruba) – preferable but not essential
• Collaborate with other IT domains to drive business and technology innovation
• Keep abreast of the corporate strategy, business plan and latest industry trends
• Available to provide 24/7 support as required.

• Minimum of 4 years' IT experience, at least 2 years of IT Infrastructure experience.
• Must have proven technical experience of working in a complex IT infrastructure environment
• Ability to listen and articulate ideas verbally and in the written form to a broad range of audiences; ability to ask probing questions and deliver internal technical presentations
• Ability to work well with others and as part of a technical team
• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, decision-making and critical thinking skills, leveraging both logic and creativity; strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills; ability to identify patterns and generate informed ideas
• Focus on the business and end user's needs; ability to set expectations and understand end-user behaviour
• Ability and willingness to proactively accept, and drive, change to accomplish positive outcomes
• Ability to understand the strategy and align tactical and strategic work in a well-balanced way
• Must know how to lever technology to reduce operational costs and deliver business innovation in a fast-moving and dynamic industry sector
• Professional competency in at least one technical specialisation, with a broad understanding of other current and emerging technologies.
• Mass wi-fi Deployment experience over 200 locations (preferred)
• Network troubleshooting with a network analyser or capturing tools such as Wired Shark (preferred)
• Good analytical and communication skills.
• Good written English to document the network setup
• Detailed knowledge of network devices, ie, cisco, aruba, meraki,
• CCNA required, CCNP preferred.

Key Responsibilities

·       Supports application development projects by leading in the creation of standards and procedures related to database management systems.

·       Plan and manage capacity of database management systems.

·       Maintain the systems that are instrumental in our business functions.

·       Manage a team of Database Admins, builds confidence and respect of others.

·       Maintaining detailed technical documentation.

·       Provide day-to-day end-user support.

·       Own, initiate and involve in various major tasks and projects.

·       Perform technical support, troubleshoot, and provide Root Cause Analysis on complex issues effectively and efficiently in line with the SLA required by the business.

·       Provide emergency on-site support and coordination, and on-call support as required.

·       Resolve and manage complex service requests in adherence with service level agreements.

·       Review and Assess environments using tools, logs, and log analysis and respond to alerts by following procedures or escalating them.

·       Assess existing document procedures, records and inventory.

·       Assess and define operating procedures used for day-to-day support, installation guides, housekeeping procedures, etc.

·       Perform complex ad-hoc requests.

·       Provides recommendations regarding new technologies to keep infrastructure up to date.

·       Provides disaster recovery and high availability solution.

·       Provide expertise in complex database software installation and configuration.

·       Provide expertise in complex database administration and monitoring.

·       Provide expertise and leads in major tasks activities including disaster recovery.

·       Provide strategic infrastructure improvement, planning, design, and deployment.

·       Provide expertise in tuning to improve efficiency and to maximize the availability of

·       databases and process automation of software environments and the like.

·       Create scripts for monitoring and to automate administrative tasks.

·       Provide data protection and enforce security standard procedures.

·       Ensure that information security policy is considered and always followed,

·       recommends any changes to policy and approved policy changes are documented.

·       Assist superiors and other engineers on other tasks and projects as needed.

·       Train, KT and delegate tasks to trainees and associates.

·       Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or other related fields.

·       Minimum of 7 years' IT experience.

·       Highly experienced in Microsoft SQL Server, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 and 2022

·       Highly experienced in Always On Availability Group, Failover Clustering, Database

·       Mirroring, Backup and Restore, Optimizing Performance and T-SQL.

·       Experience in Azure Cloud, SQLMI and SQL Database

·       Experience in Oracle, Postgres, NoSQL and MYSQL

·       Good Communication and Team skills with the ability to cooperate, present to and participate with peers/team members.

·       Good problem solving, analytical and critical thinking skills.

Nice to Have Skills

·       Knowledge in MongoDB, Cassandra, GCP

DFI Company Brief

DFI Retail Group (“Group”) is a leading pan-Asian retailer. At 30th June 2021, the Group and its associates and joint ventures operated over 10,000 outlets and employed some 230,000 team members. The Group had total annual sales in 2020 exceeding US$28 billion.

The Group provides quality and value to Asian consumers by offering leading brands, a compelling retail experience and great service; all delivered through a strong store network supported by efficient supply chains.

The Group (including associates and joint ventures) operates under a number of well-known brands across food, health and beauty, home furnishings, restaurants and other retailing.

The Group’s parent company, Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited, is incorporated in Bermuda and has a standard listing on the London Stock Exchange, with secondary listings in Bermuda and Singapore. The Group's businesses are managed from Hong Kong by Dairy Farm Management Services Limited through its regional offices.

DFI Retail Group is a member of the Jardine Matheson Group.

The Team

Advanced Analytic Team is a dedicated group of data professionals focused on leveraging BI tools such as SAP BI, Tableau and advanced analytics techniques to extract valuable insights from data. Our team supports data-driven decision-making across the organization by developing interactive dashboards, conducting in-depth data analysis and providing actionable recommendations. With a strong focus on innovation and collaboration, we strive to uncover patterns and trends that drive business growth and efficiency. Join our team and become part of an exciting journey to unlock the power of data!

The role

We are seeking a skilled and experienced SAP BO/Admin Analyst to join our Advanced Analytic team. The successful candidate will analyze and visualize complex data sets using SAP BO, provide actionable insights, and support data-driven decision-making across various departments. As a SAP BO/Admin Analyst, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations that effectively communicate key metrics and trends.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide good technical skills for the specialist stream.
• Providing end-to-end support (user requirements gathering, Front-end dashboard/report development in, Documentation of Metrics/Dashboards and providing end-user Training.
• Assist with architecture analysis and designing of sustainable solutions; and deliver projects as part of the Group BI Programmed Team
• Drive change across the business with application expertise
• Work with business stakeholders in identifying business requirements for reporting projects and supporting business with any issues or incidents.
• Document business requirements and deliveries in a continuous manner
• Ensure timely and sustainable solutions delivered to support business requirements.
• Prior experience with retail reporting and model is a plus.

• Degree holder in Computer Science or related subjects
• At least 3-4 years of relevant experience on Hands-on experience working with SAP BO Mandatory.
• SAP Business Object Experience -

o Experience in Web Intelligence, Publication, Web Services

o Familiarity resolving WEBI issues such as conditional formatting, input controls, ranking, standard formatting, filters, data mapping/ reconciliation, and other report functionalities.

o Experience with BEX queries is must.

o Strong analytical mind with good communication & interpersonal skill.

o Customer-oriented; can work independently and deliver multiple small to medium size initiatives or projects.

• SAP BO Administration experience –

o Patch upgrade.

o Setting up the monitoring of BO servers, auditing policies, and manage event and alerts related to CMS, Audit and Reporting Database services.

o Keep availability of BO Web applications CMC, BI Launchpad, and other applications.

o Manage user and permissions.

o Manage Universe and Connections and other BI Repository objects.

o Backup and Restore of BusinessObjects environment.

• Proficient in SQL and Familiarity with other data visualization tools (Power BI Tableau, etc.).
• Fluency in spoken and written English.

Good to have

• Exposure to Azure or Google Cloud
• Experience with BW and ERP exposure is an advantage.
• SAP ABAP experience is needed (BW ABAP, AMDP).
• Experience in Python
• Good knowledge of multiple aspects of the retail industry is advantageous.