Our client is an innovative pay-as-you-go solar startup. They make life better for everyday households in Africa where they build amazing tech to help bring access to energy, internet and opportunity to people who otherwise wouldn’t. Our client is a dynamic, hardworking team that values flexibility and focuses on results over office hours. They are resourceful and budget-conscious, whether they are travelling or working. They believe in resilience, self-reliance, and long-term sustainability. With our client your career growth is driven by your ambitions, from expanding your role to exploring new areas of the business.
Role Overview
As a data analyst you will be responsible for processing, and analysing data to provide actionable insights that support data-driven decision-making within the business.
Job Type: Full-Time
Workplace: Hybrid
Location: Cape Town
Requirements
0 - 3 years of experience as a data analyst, data architect, data engineer, data scientist, machine learning engineer or business systems analyst.
Experience in any of the following industries: fintech, payments, retail banking, credit, e-commerce, logistics, IT, Telecommunications, Banking, BPO, finance or SaaS
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maths, Stats, Actuarial Science
Tertiary qualification from UCT, Stellenbosch or WITS
Experience in SQL
Responsibilities
Understand the business’s primary commercial imperatives to align technological solutions with business goals.
Envision and plan technology solutions that support these commercial imperatives, incorporating feedback from in-country operations teams and the sales network.
Design, build, test, maintain, and manage robust software solutions that enable team members to perform their roles effectively and contribute to the company's objective of serving customers efficiently.
Provide architectural and technical leadership for projects within the specified industries.
Manage and maintain a mission-critical, 24x7 production system with expert knowledge.
Utilise strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and troubleshoot system and integration challenges.
Demonstrate excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.
Implement and manage cloud-based systems to support business operations.
Apply Infrastructure-as-Code principles, rapid and collaborative code pipelines, and other DevOps methodologies to enhance system efficiency and reliability.
Utilise AWS serverless products and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation for system management.
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
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