This position reports to the Head of TDT Analytics
Your responsibilities will include:.
- Work closely with stakeholders, Engineering and Analysts to turn data into critical information and knowledge that can be used to make sound business decisions.
- Lead a team of Analysts
- Responsible for the full life-cycle development, implementation, production support, and performance tuning of the Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Marts, and Business Intelligence Reporting environments.
- Database management and administration in both Postgres, MySQL and BigQuery.
- Design and implement reporting and analytical solutions.
- Analyses business and functional requirements and translates these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions.
- Help to maintain our Kappa & Lambda event-driven architecture built on BigQuery, DataForm and Looker.
- Ensuring that the data pipelines and general support infrastructure continue to run and operate in the most efficient manner.
- Provide operational support, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
- Automating data extraction and report update processes.
- Data validation and integrity testing.
- Data cleansing and multidimensional data modeling.
- Optimisation of data models.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent leadership and team management capabilities.
- Ability to work under pressure and respond to incidents quickly and effectively.
- Strong conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
- Experience leading teams.
- Design and data structures
- A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including Linux and operating systems Familiar with tools such as Github Actions
- Experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)
- High proficiency in working with large data sets and business models
- Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 3 years experience in a software/technology environment is required.
- In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 7 years experience in a
software/technology environment. - 5 - 7 years related experience
- 1 - 2 years of coding experience in Python and JavaScript (advantageous)
- Minimum 2 years’ experience using a BI reporting tools (e.g. QlikView, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, etc.)
- Minimum 4 years SQL experience
- A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design and data structures
- A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including Linux and operating systems, networking
- Experience using Looker, BigQuery and Dataform is advantageous
- Familiar with tools such as Github Actions
- Have experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)
- High proficiency in working with large data sets and business models
- Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) is advantageous
- Experience working in an Agile methodology is advantageous
- Retail or e-commerce industry experience beneficial
- takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
- is respectful but forthright
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
- thinks like an owner of the business
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!
