Remote Agritech Systems Analyst: Data & IoT for Farms

Placements24; Soweto; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement provisions

Performance bonuses

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a highly analytical Remote Agricultural Systems Analyst to join a distributed team focused on evaluating, optimizing, and integrating agricultural systems and technologies. You will work with data from farm operations, sensor networks, and machinery to identify improvements and support next‑gen farming solutions.

The role requires a strong background in agricultural processes, data modeling, and remote collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field; Master's preferred.
• Minimum 5 years' experience analyzing agricultural systems or related field.
• Proficiency with data analysis tools, statistics, and visualization.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data from diverse agricultural systems (IoT, farm management software, machinery logs).
• Identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities in operations.
• Develop analytical models and reports to guide system implementation and upgrades.
• Evaluate ROI of new agricultural technologies and tools.
• Collaborate remotely with engineers, agronomists and operations teams to define requirements.
• Monitor system performance and provide insights on trends.
• Document system configurations and analytical methodologies.
• Assist in integrating different agricultural data platforms.
• Research emerging technologies and present findings to stakeholders.

Skills

Data analysis

Statistics

Problem solving

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree (Agricultural Engineering / Data Science / CS / Systems Engineering)

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Excel

SQL

Python

R

Farm management software

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a highly analytical Remote Agricultural Systems Analyst to join a distributed team focused on evaluating, optimizing, and integrating agricultural systems and technologies. You will work with data from farm operations, sensor networks, and machinery to identify improvements and support next‑gen farming solutions.

The role requires a strong background in agricultural processes, data modeling, and remote collaboration.