Analytics Engineer II: Build High-Impact Data Foundations

Communicate Recruitment; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High visibility role

Cross-functional teams

Job summary

Communicate Recruitment is seeking an Analytics Engineer II to sit at the core of our data organization, bridging data engineering and business analytics in Stellenbosch.

You will transform complex data streams into clean, reliable data assets powering client engagement, CRM, and optimization strategies, with CI/CD and production-grade pipelines. Collaborate with Data Architects and stakeholders to ensure governance and quality.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of hands-on analytics engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical, analytical, or quantitative field.
• Advanced mastery of data modelling and data governance.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (CI/CD, version control, automated testing).

Responsibilities

• Model and transform data into scalable models, marts, and semantic layers.
• Collaborate with Data Architects, Data Modellers, and stakeholders to align assets with strategy.
• Engineer for production with CI/CD, automated testing, and orchestration tools to keep pipelines resilient.
• Govern and assure data quality across pipelines and models from day one.

Skills

Data modelling

Data governance

CI/CD & testing

Airflow / orchestration

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree (technical/analytical)

Tools

Apache Airflow

Prefect

Job description

Communicate Recruitment is seeking an Analytics Engineer II to sit at the core of our data organization, bridging data engineering and business analytics in Stellenbosch.

You will transform complex data streams into clean, reliable data assets powering client engagement, CRM, and optimization strategies, with CI/CD and production-grade pipelines. Collaborate with Data Architects and stakeholders to ensure governance and quality.