Senior BI Analyst

Pick n Pay Retailers; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pick n Pay Retailers is seeking a Senior BI Analyst to deliver high-quality BI solutions that empower data-driven decision-making across the organisation.

The role partners with Data Product Owners and engineering teams to ensure accuracy and alignment with business metrics, delivering dashboards and reports that are intuitive and trusted.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 6+ years in a BI Developer/BI Analyst/Visualization Developer role delivering production BI dashboards/reports.
• Hands-on with modern BI tools (Power BI, Pyramid, Business Objects, Tableau).

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into KPIs, metrics, filters, and report layouts.
• Design, develop, and maintain dashboards and reports using approved BI platforms.
• Collaborate with Data Product Owners, Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers in agile ceremonies.

Skills

SQL

Data Visualization

UX Principles

Agile

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree (Info Systems / Data Analytics / CS)

Tools

Power BI

Pyramid

Business Objects

Tableau

Snowflake

SAP BW

Job description

Job Summary

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! The Senior BI Analyst is responsible for delivering high-quality business intelligence solutions that enable data-driven decision-making across the organisation. This role combines strong analytical capability with expert data visualisation skills, translating business requirements into trusted, intuitive, and actionable dashboards and reports.

The Senior BI Analyst partners closely with Data Product Owners, Data Analysts, and Data Engineering teams to ensure insights are accurate, relevant, and aligned to agreed business metrics.

Minimum Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

Minimum Experience: 6+ years’ experience in a BI Developer, BI Analyst, or Visualisation Developer role

Proven experience delivering production BI dashboards and reports for business users

Hands-on experience with modern BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Pyramid, Business Objects, Tableau)

Exposure to enterprise data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, SAP BW)

Strong SQL skills and experience querying large datasets

Experience working with data warehouses and curated analytical datasets

Good understanding of data visualisation principles and UX best practices

Understanding of Retail is advantageous.

Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks

Key Responsibilities BI Analysis & Requirements Work with Data Product Owners to understand analytical needs, decision-making processes, and key business questions. Translate business requirements into clear BI specifications, including KPIs, measures, filters, and report layouts. Define, document, and maintain metric definitions and business logic to ensure consistency and shared understanding. Validate requirements against available data and challenge assumptions where necessary.

BI & Visualisation Development Design, develop, and maintain dashboards, reports, and self-service BI assets using approved BI platforms. Peer review other BI Analyst developments for alignment to standards and fit for purpose. Collaborate on, and apply data visualisation best practices to ensure insights are easy to interpret, intuitive, and visually effective. Build interactive features such as drill-downs, filtering, and comparisons to support exploratory analysis. Optimise BI solutions for performance, usability, and scalability. Ensure that BI solutions meet data Quality & Insight requirements. Validate data accuracy and investigate discrepancies or anomalies. Interpret trends and patterns in data and proactively surface insights to stakeholders. Support business users in understanding and correctly using BI outputs.

Collaboration & Delivery Collaborate closely with Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers to align BI solutions with data models and platform standards, contributing to the formulation of data model requirements. Participate in agile delivery ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives. Support user acceptance testing and adoption of BI solutions.

Governance & Standards Adhere to BI standards, visual design guidelines, and data governance policies. Ensure appropriate data access, security, and compliance in all BI solutions. Promote consistent, trusted reporting and reduce duplicate or conflicting metrics.

Competencies Business Intelligence & Analytics: Strong ability to translate business needs and analytical questions into effective BI solutions, KPIs, metrics and actionable insights. Analytical & Conceptual Thinking: Ability to analyse complex datasets, identify trends and patterns, challenge assumptions and draw meaningful business conclusions. BI Development & Visualisation: Advanced capability in developing intuitive, interactive and visually effective dashboards, reports and self-service BI solutions. Data & SQL Proficiency: Strong SQL and data analysis capability, with a sound understanding of data warehouses, analytical datasets and enterprise data platforms.

Business & Data Acumen: Ability to understand business processes, data relationships and the context in which data is used to support decision-making. Stakeholder Engagement: Effectively engages with Data Product Owners, business users and technical teams to understand requirements, communicate insights and manage expectations. Data Quality & Governance: Strong focus on data accuracy, consistency and trusted reporting, with adherence to data governance, security and access standards.

Solution Design & Performance: Designs BI solutions that are scalable, user-friendly, fit for purpose and optimised for performance. Collaboration & Agile Delivery: Works effectively with Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers and cross-functional teams and contributes actively to agile delivery practices. Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Identifies opportunities to improve BI solutions, user experience, reporting consistency and self-service analytics capabilities.

Closing Date: 20 October 2026

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! Discover who we are At Pick n Pay, we are more than just a retailer; we are an organisation of dedicated people committed to creating an exceptional shopping experience for our customers and an enriching, vibrant work environment for our employees. Founded in 1967, Pick n Pay is one of the largest retail chains in South Africa, serving millions of customers across the African continent. Our reputation is built upon our commitment to offering customers the best in quality, and value. Our Mission We serve with our hearts, we create a great place to be and With our minds, we create an excellent place to shop

Our Values Our values are deeply embedded in our culture and guide our actions: Passion for our Customers: We are passionate about our customers and will fight for their rights. Our customers are our priority, and their satisfaction is our success. Respect and Care: We care for and respect each other. We value our team's diversity and treat each other with kindness and understanding. Personal Growth and Opportunity: We foster personal growth and opportunities. We believe in empowering our employees, providing opportunities for learning and advancement. Leadership and Innovation: We nurture leadership and vision, and reward innovation. We encourage our employees to be leaders in their roles and think outside the box. Honesty and Integrity: We live by honesty and integrity. We operate with transparency and trustworthiness in all our interactions. Community Support: We support and participate in our communities. We believe in making a positive impact and giving back to our communities. Individual Responsibility: We take individual responsibility. We are responsible for our actions and decisions. Accountability: We are all accountable. We hold ourselves responsible for delivering on our commitments to our customers, each other, and our business.

Why Pick n Pay? At Pick n Pay, our strength lies in our people. We strive to be the employer of choice, attracting and retaining the best talent in the industry. We create a work environment that fosters growth, celebrates achievements, and values individual contributions. Here, your work will be meaningful, recognized, and rewarded. Experience the joy of being part of Pick n Pay. Let's shape the future of retail in Africa together.

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