Team Leader: Data and Analytics

Capitec Bank Ltd.; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in South Africa is seeking a Team Lead for Data & Analytics to guide a team of analysts. The role involves delivering insights for campaigns and strategies, managing data processes, and ensuring alignment with business goals. Candidates should have over 5 years in data analytics with leadership experience. Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools like PowerBI is required, along with the ability to manage stakeholder relationships effectively.

Qualifications

• Over 5 years in data analytics, including 2 years as a manager or team lead within an analytical team.
• Proficient in SQL and delivering complex analytical requirements.
• Managing senior and executive level stakeholders and influencing decision making at these levels.

Responsibilities

• Guide a team of analysts to deliver insights behind campaigns and client strategies.
• Direct work measuring campaign impact, building segmentation, and explaining product usage.
• Maintain strong data processes and drive continuous improvement across reporting and analysis.

Skills

Data analytics

SQL

Data visualization with PowerBI

Managing stakeholders

Big data frameworks – Hadoop/Kafka

Github experience or Git

Education

Completed Degree or higher

Job description

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Join us in becoming the best bank in the world!!

We appoint energized and motivated people for their potentialandcontinuously look fortalented, driven individualstohelp usinnovate and evolve.That is why we focus on finding the right people for the right jobs. We love what we do because we focus on making a positive difference for our clients and employees. Our company DNA is built around talented and committed teams dedicated to build a brand that we are proud of and earns the trust of our clients.

Who we are:

We are a bank, but we’re much more than that.We believe that banking is about enabling peopleto control their financial lives through banking that is simplified, accessible, affordable and delivered through personal experience. By helping our clients manage their financial lives better, we enable them to live better.

Why choose us:

At Capitec, we offer our best by living up to our CEO values in every situation – we always put theClient first, act withEnergy andtakeOwnership.And to support people in being their best,our Employee Value Propositionoffersevery value to all team members through cohesive teams, growth opportunities as well asemployee benefitsand savings. We make it a priority toensure that each member of the Capitec team feels welcome, valued, focused, and has the opportunity to grow.

About the role:

As a Team Lead: Data & Analytics, your purpose is to guide a team of analysts who deliver the insight engine behind our campaigns and client strategies. You direct the work that measures campaign impact, builds segmentation that drives targeting, and explains how clients use our products. You turn raw data into clear guidance that supports decisions across the business.

The role spans the full analytics lifecycle and the leadership needed to run it well. You set standards for analysis, ensure sound methods, and keep output accurate, repeatable, and timely. You help analysts frame questions, structure work, and present findings that influence action. You manage workflow, support growth, and remove obstacles that slow delivery.

You partner with marketing, product owners, and operational teams to keep priorities aligned and insight connected to business goals. You maintain strong data processes, define metrics that matter, and drive continuous improvement across reporting and analysis. You build a team that understands the client, sees patterns early, and delivers insight that compounds value over time.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Over 5 years in data analytics, including 2 years as a manager or team lead within an analytical team.
• Proficient in SQL and delivering complex analytical requirements.
• Managing senior and executive level stakeholders and influencing decision making at these levels
• Data visualisation with tools such as PowerBI
• Big data frameworks – Hadoop/Kafka
• Github experience or Git

Ideal:

• AWS experience
• Simplify and make it easy
• Earn and extend trust
• Plan, deliver and raise the bar
• Curious and continuously learns
• Act, learn and adapt
• Inspire optimism and persistence
• Have courage, disagree and commit

Education:

• Completed Degree or higher

If you are interested in being part of this dynamic team, on a mission to build the best bank in the world through unlocking the potential of its people, please apply. We would love to hear from you!

Capitec is committed to diversity and, where feasible, all appointments will support the achievement of our employment equity goals

Capitec Bank is an authorised financial services provider (FSP 46669) and registered credit provider (NCRCP13). Capitec Bank Limited Reg. No: 1980/003695/06