Remote Senior Geospatial Data & Insights Lead

BigTalent; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,250,000; Full time

Job summary

BigTalent is seeking a Senior Data & Insights Consultant — Geospatial & Transport. Remote (South Africa) role to lead data-driven investigations into how people and vehicles move through spaces.

You will turn evidence into client-ready analyses and visualisations, owning projects from brief to final delivery. Responsibilities include translating briefs, examining spatial and movement data, developing findings, and delivering complete outputs with high quality.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills with practical coding in Python.
• Experience with spatial data and GIS tools.
• Statistical judgement including sampling, uncertainty, and confounding.
• Evidence of investigating ambiguous results and tracing discrepancies.
• Clear written communication and ability to produce professional reports for non-specialists.
• Disciplined reproducibility, documentation and version control.
• Familiarity with AI tools and validation of outputs.

Responsibilities

• Translate client briefs into answerable analytical questions and gather required evidence.
• Investigate spatial, temporal and movement data to identify patterns and discrepancies.
• Develop findings and interpretations without overstating evidence.
• Produce client deliverables: reports, maps, interactive explorers and charts using templates.
• Own the quality of submitted work: checks, dates, units and sources.
• Improve analytical methods through documentation, assumptions and sensitivity analyses.
• Make work repeatable by creating reusable analyses and templates.

Skills

SQL

Python

GIS

Statistics

Data analysis

Reproducibility

AI tools

Project management

Communication

Tools

GIS software

Python

Job description

BigTalent is seeking a Senior Data & Insights Consultant — Geospatial & Transport. Remote (South Africa) role to lead data-driven investigations into how people and vehicles move through spaces.

You will turn evidence into client-ready analyses and visualisations, owning projects from brief to final delivery. Responsibilities include translating briefs, examining spatial and movement data, developing findings, and delivering complete outputs with high quality.