Data Analyst

SUMMARY:
Do you have the passion for analytics?  A firm believer in technical innovation is looking for a Data Analyst. This organisation has a big focus on people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture.

POSITION INFO:
Do you have the passion for analytics?  A firm believer in technical innovation is looking for a Data Analyst. This organisation has a big focus on people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture.

The successful candidate will form part of a very young team that’s work with excellence. If this sounds like an exciting role, reach out to Salix Recruitment @ --------Please upload your CV here-------->

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide infrastructure, tools and frameworks used to deliver end-to-end solutions to business problems;
• Build scalable infrastructure for supporting the delivery of clear business insights from raw data sources; with a focus on collecting, managing, analysing, visualising data and developing analytical solutions;
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture and creating databases optimized for performance, implementing schema changes, and maintaining data architecture standards across;
• Work alongside data scientists to help make use of the data they collect;
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional requirements and align data architecture with business requirements;
• Processes, cleanses, and verifies the integrity of data used for analysis;
• Build analytics tools that utilise the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics;
• Utilise data to discover tasks that can be automated and identify, design, and implement internal process improvements;
• Responsible for enabling and running data migrations across different databases and different servers and defines and implements data stores based on system requirements and consumer requirements;
• Responsible for performing thorough testing and validation in order to support the accuracy of data transformations and data verification used in machine learning models;
• Perform ad-hoc analyses of data stored in databases and writes SQL scripts;
• Acts as a subject matter expert from a data perspective and provides input into all decisions relating to data engineering and the use thereof.

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Degree in Information Technology/ Information Science or Mathematics

• 5-7 years’ experience in Data Analytics
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools
• Experience with scripting languages: Python, Java, C, Scala, etc.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
• Architecture - Data Integrity - IT Applications - Data Analysis

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