Senior Analytics Engineer

Techrepo.co.za; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Techrepo.co.za is seeking a skilled Data Analytics / Data Engineering professional to design and own the analytics layer, ensure data governance, and implement scalable data solutions.

You will translate business challenges into actionable metrics, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor junior engineers, with a strong emphasis on dbt, SQL, and cloud data warehousing within a FinTech context.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Analytics/Data Engineering experience.
• Expertise in dbt and advanced SQL.
• Experience with one modern cloud warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift).
• Experience with an orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect).
• Expert in BI tool administration and semantic layer design (LookML).
• Proven ability to lead projects and mentor team members.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end analytics layer and data governance standards.
• Define modeling standards and workflows for dbt and source control.
• Translate complex business challenges into clear metrics and models.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align data delivery with strategy.
• Coach and guide engineers, shaping the team's technical roadmap.
• Demonstrate experience designing data contracts and semantic layers.
• Lead projects with stakeholder mgmt and drive business outcomes.
• Focus on performance and efficiency in system design.

Skills

Analytics/Data Engineering

Advanced SQL

dbt

Cloud Data Warehouse

Airflow

LookML

Data Contracts

Data Semantics

Leadership

Mentoring

FinTech interest

Tools

dbt

LookML

Airflow

Job description

Job Description

About the Role

As a member of the Data team, your primary focus will be to combine raw information from different sources to create consistent and consumption-ready formats. More specifically, you will need to construct and test architectures that enable data extraction and transformation for predictive or prescriptive modelling.

Responsibilities

• Design new and own the end-to-end analytics layer and establish data governance standards (data tests, data quality and semantic layers).
• Define and enforce high modeling standards and best practices for dbt and source control workflows.
• Convert complex, ambiguous business challenges into clear, actionable metrics and models.
• Partner with business stakeholders to align data delivery with strategic objectives and present technical work clearly.
• Coach and guide intermediate engineers, actively shaping the team's technical roadmap.
• 5+ years in Analytics/Data Engineering.
• Expertise in dbt and advanced SQL.
• Expert experience with one modern cloud warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, or Amazon Redshift).
• Experience with an orchestrator (e.g., Apache Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect) for managing dependencies outside of dbt.
• Expert in BI tool administration and semantic layer design (e.g., LookML).
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing data contracts and semantic layers.
• A track record of high-impact, business-aligned data solutions.
• Proven ability to lead projects, manage stakeholder expectations, and mentor team members.
• Experience with system design - keeping performance and efficiency in mind, whilst aware of trade-offs.
• Prior experience or a strong interest in the FinTech space.