Analytics Engineer | Remote (UTC - UTC+3)

Jumo; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

JUMO in South Africa is seeking an Analytics Engineer to support Senior Analytics Engineers across data domains, collaborating with stakeholders, data engineers, and product teams to enable data requests and build robust data solutions.

You will design, test, and optimize data pipelines, perform advanced queries, and create operational reports and dashboards. The role requires 3–5 years BI experience, a relevant degree, and clear communication of recommendations across the organization.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years experience with data and/or systems analysis, at least some within a formal BI environment.
• University degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics or equivalent industry training and experience.
• Proven ability in analytics, business process analysis and presenting / communicating recommendations across all organization levels.
• Real-world understanding of data processing and storage.
• Relational database management systems experience in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift and SQL Server.
• Proven ability to write complex data queries to retrieve data for analysis, modelling and solving complex business scenarios.
• Ability to self-discover and understand complex data domains.
• Advanced Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with stakeholders to perform investigations on data warehouse and other data stores to understand and solve real-world problems.
• Understand end-to-end architecture of the functional domain and perform ad-hoc extracts.
• Perform QA on data sets and pipelines to identify inconsistencies and guide data cleansing.
• Use advanced data queries for ad hoc analysis and support for internal and external stakeholders.
• Define reporting requirements and build operational reports and strategic dashboards.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Advanced Excel

Communication

Problem solving

Education

University degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics or equivalent

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redshift

SQL Server

Tableau

Power BI

Grafana

Superset

Airflow

NiFi

GitHub

JIRA

Job description

As Analytics Engineer, you will support the Senior Analytics Engineers in one or more of the many functional data domains within JUMO. Working closely with the various stakeholders and Data engineers to enable you to service data requests both internally and to external partners. You will report to the Analytics Engineering Team Lead.

You will

• Work closely with all stakeholders which will include technology platform Product Owners, Data & Prediction teams, Finance, Marketing and external partners to perform investigations on data warehouse and other operational data stores to understand and assist with the real-world problems we're trying to solve.
• Need to understand the end-to-end architecture of your functional domain and be able to deep dive into the data to resolve issues or perform ad-hoc extracts.
• Perform quality assurance on new and existing data sets and pipelines to discover inconsistencies, anomalies to guide problem resolution and data cleansing exercises.
• Use advanced data query and discovery skills for ad hoc analysis and support for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Need to be able to clearly define reporting requirements as well as the ability to build operational reports and strategic dashboards.

You will need

• 3-5 years experience with data and/or systems analysis experience, at least some within a formal BI environment.
• University degree in either Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics or equivalent industry training and experience.
• Proven ability in analytics, business process analysis and presenting / communicating recommendations across all organization levels.
• Real-world understanding of data processing and storage.
• Relational database management systems experience in any relevant technology such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift and SQL Server.
• Proven ability to write complex data queries (any desired language) to retrieve data for analysis, modelling and solving complex business scenarios.
• Ability to self-discover and understand complex data domains.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Understanding of Data Governance, Agile methodologies and QA standards.
• Critical thinking under pressure with ambiguity and tight deadlines
• Experience working with Github and JIRA or similar task or project management tools.

Bonus if you have

• Experience in data environments making use of big data, data lakes, event-based streaming and API integrations.
• Experience with reporting and business intelligence software such as Tableau, Power BI, Grafana, Superset.
• Experience with tools such as Airflow and NiFi.
• Experience with end-to-end BI solution design and build.
• Experience in the FinTech industry.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working as one team towards our goal of financial inclusion
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead
• Using AI for good, ensuring more value for more customers
• A stack of leading-edge technologies

Remote First

This position is based in South Africa. We operate a remote first working approach, where working remotely is our default way of working. Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection and for the use of those who value and want to work out of an office. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you are set up to work remotely and have access to data with a strong and reliable connection as we value online facetime for collaboration at JUMO.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.