Analytics Engineer

Cape Town, Hybrid Remote

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Why Entersekt

 

Founded over 16 years ago, with more recent investments from Accel-KKR, Entersekt is a leader in mobile authentication, mobile app security, and payments enablement technology, offering highly scalable products with a track record of success across multiple continents.

 

Entersekt enables secure digital transactions for leading financial institutions globally. We exist to create a world where everyone can transact digitally without fear or compromise. Currently, we protect the digital transactions of over 210 million active users on our platform and hold 120 active patents that recognize innovation in digital security, payments, and user experience. Entersekt offers their customers secure authentication and digital payments experiences that remove unnecessary friction. Entersekt has invested in, and created, a diverse product portfolio that positions the company well to execute on its expansion in North America and European markets.

The Ideal Candidate 

  • Will help ensure the quality and data integrity of our BI artifacts.
  • Is keen to experience a cloud-first approach to the world of BI.
  • Shows strong analytical and critical thinking, and the ability to articulate their ideas.
  • Has the ability to see things through to their positive conclusion.
  • Demonstrates an ability to collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
  • Quick on their feet and able to multi-task.
  • Does not try to overcomplicate things.
  • Takes pride and ownership in what they do.
  • Fits in with the Entersekt culture of trust, transparency, and excellence.

The Role

As an Analytics Engineer, you will be responsible for creating compelling, clear, and powerful visualizations turning large data sets into useful and meaningful information and presenting this in a variety of ways. We want our data to tell a clear story, highlight previously unseen insights, and do it all faster than we currently are, to enable optimal efficiency when making data-informed decisions. You will be an expert at translating statistical data and complex combinations of data that are often difficult to conceptualize and present this in ways that are transformative, understandable, and easy to interpret in order to spot patterns, trends, and correlations.

You will need a good business acumen, the ability to frequently engage with stakeholders across the business so that you develop solutions that add real business value and that support them in delivering on their key strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Engage in designing, developing, publishing, and maintaining Power BI reports, dashboards, data sets, data models and data flows.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather business requirements for Analytics and Reporting.
  • Implement security in reports and dashboards.
  • Provide guidance to front-end BI developers in the company.
  • Optimize performance of dashboard design decisions based on underlying data.
  • Ensure agile/scrum practices are followed during the development process.
  • Gather, document and design data integration and data visualization requirements for workloads ranging from small to enterprise size.
  • Provide technical recommendations on the development and implementation of data-related standards.
  • Maintain expertise in skills related to dashboard production, like demographics, geocoding, and data enhancement.
  • Develop Power BI Data models and recommend best practices for report creation and visualizations.

Skills & Experience 

  • A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Development, Data Science, or certification in relevant BI technologies.
  • A sound understanding of BI best practices, relational structures, star schemas, dimensional data modelling, denormalization processes, and reporting techniques including MS Power BI.
  • Design knowledge and expertise in data visualization techniques.
  • Extracting and querying data.
  • Creativity
  • Analytical thinking
  • Data presentation skills
  • Dax
  • M Query
  • Data Modelling
  • RLS
  • SQL
  • Azure
  • Python would be advantageous.

Personality Attributes 

  • Strong communication skills to translate business requirements into dashboards and reports.
  • A team player who can work effectively with technical and business managers but is self-motivated to work independently and contribute in a fast-paced and changing technology environment.
  • Attention to detail, goal-driven, good communication, strong problem-solving ability, challenge-loving, and a knowledge sponge.
  • Strong documentation skills.
  • Engineering mindset.

 

We place a lot of value on how we treat prospective employees and appreciate the time and effort that goes into job hunting. That is why we aim to keep the hiring process as quick and seamless as possible while ensuring the best possible fit for both you and the company.

Working at Entersekt is truly a dream. You get exposed to cutting-edge technology, colleagues who are leaders in their fields, and an awesome working environment that includes flexible hours, remote work, and plenty of growth opportunities.

Apply for this position by following the "apply now" tab and or viewing our other roles at Entersekt Careers page.

 

 

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Tags: Agile Azure Computer Science Data visualization Engineering Power BI Python Scrum Security SQL Statistics

Perks/benefits: Flex hours

Regions: Remote/Anywhere Africa
Country: South Africa
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