Lead Data Analyst

South Africa

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Ozow

Easy, fast, safe online payments and bank API solutions for merchants and consumers across South Africa. Secure instant EFT directly from bank to bank.

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What to expect 
  
As a Lead Data Analyst at Ozow you will be tasked to understand and the implementation of sophisticated models on big data. We are looking for a Lead Data Analyst who enjoys diving into data from various departments and customer journey points; is excited about investigations and algorithms; can multi-task; and can credibly interface between scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders. You will be successful in this role if you are passionate about developing innovative analysis, while working effectively as part of a cross functional team and transform data into insight.   

Your role includes:  

  • Gathering information from external data sources  
  • Interpreting data using statistical techniques and presenting findings in visual and easy to understand formats  
  • Identify trends and patterns in complex data sets by reviewing information  
  • Work with business units to find new ways to improve opportunities  
  • Helping develop reports and analysis, providing quality assurance of the data and manipulation thereof  
  • Train and upskill junior team members.  
  • Work with a team of experienced technologists passionate about data  

   

Requirements 

  • 10+ years of experience in developing data solutions including analysis, design, coding, testing, deploying and supporting applications.  
  • Bachelors Degree in Data Science, Statistics, or Mathematics (or other qualifying degree)  
  • Knowledge of the product lifecycle, with at least 10 years of product experience in a digital or payments environment  
  • Demonstrated data engineering and analysis skills with a single product or a set of products, across different technologies.  
  • Experience with reporting and statistical software such as Looker, Power BI, Tableau, SAS, etc.  
  • Good knowledge of ETL frameworks and approaches.  
  • Advanced skills in SQL and relational databases, Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.  
  • Experience with cloud technologies, AWS’ offering in detail, will be a distinct advantage.  

 

In office perks 

  • Free healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks (Cape Town) 
  • Free healthy lunches and snacks (Johannesburg) 
  • Free laundry service (Cape Town and still to launch in Johannesburg) 
  • Monthly socials (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
  • On-site Barista (Cape Town) 
  • Workplace Concierge (Cape Town)
  • Ozow Library (Cape Town)  
  • Ozow Playroom (Cape Town) 

 

Perks for South African based employees

  • Medical aid subsidy (permanent staff)
  • Group Risk Insurance (permanent staff)
  • Paid annual leave  
  • Employee Health and Wellness Assistance 
  • Gym / Fitness sessions 
  • Ozow Cookbook 
  • Learning and Development opportunities 
  • Mentorship programme 
  • Community initiatives 
  • Quarterly team retreats and annual company retreats
  • Employee gifting 
  • Access to cutting edge technology 
  • Hybrid and Remote work 

 

Sounds good? Apply now! 

 

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* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: AWS Big Data Cassandra Engineering ETL Hadoop HBase Looker Mathematics MongoDB NoSQL Power BI RDBMS SAS SQL Statistics Tableau Testing

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Region: Africa
Country: South Africa
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