Senior Analytics Engineer - Build Governed Data Layer

Lulalend; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in Cape Town is seeking an experienced Senior Analytics Engineer to join their data team. The role focuses on forming a reliable dbt analytics layer, ensuring data governance, and converting complex business challenges into clear metrics. Candidates should have at least 5 years in Analytics/Data Engineering, with expertise in dbt, advanced SQL, and familiarity with modern cloud data warehouses. This position offers an opportunity to mentor engineers while engaging in impactful data solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Analytics/Data Engineering.
• Expertise in dbt and advanced SQL.
• Experience with a modern cloud warehouse.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the end-to-end analytics layer.
• Define and enforce modeling standards for dbt.
• Convert business challenges into actionable metrics.

Skills

Analytics/Data Engineering

dbt

Advanced SQL

Modern cloud warehouse (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift)

Orchestrator (Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)

BI tool administration

Data contracts and semantic layers

Project management

Job description

A leading financial technology firm in Cape Town is seeking an experienced Senior Analytics Engineer to join their data team. The role focuses on forming a reliable dbt analytics layer, ensuring data governance, and converting complex business challenges into clear metrics. Candidates should have at least 5 years in Analytics/Data Engineering, with expertise in dbt, advanced SQL, and familiarity with modern cloud data warehouses. This position offers an opportunity to mentor engineers while engaging in impactful data solutions.