Business Intelligence Engineer, Sub-Saharan Africa
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an outstanding Business Intelligence Engineer with broad technical skills to build analytic and reporting capabilities to deliver on strategic analytical/reporting projects, define/produce end-to-end metrics that inform product, business, and marketing decisions and identify new growth opportunities through data-driven insights.
The ideal candidate relishes working with large volumes of data, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts, and, above all else, is passionate about data and analytics. The candidate is an expert with business intelligence tools and passionately partners with the business to identify strategic opportunities where data-backed insights drive value creation. An effective communicator, the candidate crisply translates analysis result into executive-facing business terms. The candidate works aptly with internal and external teams to push the projects across the finishing line. The candidate is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big (while paying careful attention to detail), and enjoys working in a fast-paced and global team.
Key job responsibilities
Core Responsibilities includes but not restricted to:
- Interfacing with business customers, gathering requirements and delivering complete BI solutions to drive insights and inform product, operations, and marketing decisions.
- Interfacing with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL (Redshift, Oracle) and ability to use a programming and/or scripting language to process data for modeling
- Evolve organization wide Self-Service platforms
- Building metrics to analyze key inputs to forecasting systems
- Leading complex analytical deep dives (Segmentation, A/B testing)
- Recognizing and adopting best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Cape Town, ZAF
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor degree in computer science engineering, economics, statistics, mathematics, econometrics, or a similar quantitative field
- Demonstrated ability to interact with business customers, gather requirements and deliver complete scalable and sustainable BI solutions
- 5+ years work experience in analytics field and working with relational Databases
- Self-driven, and showcases ability to deliver on fast paced projects using extremely large data sets
- Fluency in SQL, and deep understanding of ETL is a must.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree in computer science engineering, economics, statistics, mathematics, econometrics, or a similar quantitative field
- Effective spoken and written communication to senior audiences, including strong data presentation and visualization skills
- Experience and ability to effectively gather information from multiple data sources and deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete or dirty data
- Knowledge and direct experience using business intelligence reporting tools such as Tableau/QuickSight
- Experience working with redshift, Cradle or other AWS tools is a plus Hands On experience with Python,R is a plus
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