Intermediate Analytics Engineer
Build trusted data products that power enterprise decision-making
Location: Johannesburg (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract
About the Opportunity
A leading South African financial institution is expanding its modern data and analytics capability and is looking for an experienced Intermediate Analytics Engineer to join a high-performing data team.
This is an opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise data platforms where your work will directly enable advanced analytics, reporting, AI initiatives and self-service business intelligence across multiple business domains.
You'll work alongside Data Engineers, Architects, Data Modellers, Governance specialists and business stakeholders to design trusted, analytics-ready datasets that become the foundation for strategic business decisions.
If you enjoy solving complex data challenges, building scalable data products and creating clean, reliable data that people actually trust, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing
As an Analytics Engineer, you will bridge the gap between data engineering and business analytics by transforming raw enterprise data into trusted, reusable and well-governed analytical assets.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing, building and maintaining scalable analytical data models
- Developing reliable, reusable and well-documented data products
- Building and optimising data pipelines across multiple enterprise source systems
- Translating business requirements into analytics-ready datasets
- Creating conceptual, logical and dimensional data models
- Performing data profiling, validation, reconciliation and quality assessments
- Defining data contracts, business rules and metadata
- Implementing data lineage and ensuring governance standards are maintained
- Optimising SQL queries, pipeline performance and cloud processing costs
- Collaborating with Data Engineers, Architects, Governance teams and business stakeholders
- Supporting self-service analytics through trusted semantic data models
- Monitoring data quality, pipeline health and production performance
- Mentoring junior Analytics Engineers and contributing to engineering best practices
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who combines strong technical capability with excellent analytical thinking and stakeholder engagement.
Essential Experience
- 3–6 years' experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering or Data Modelling
- Strong SQL development skills
- Experience designing analytical data models
- Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT data pipelines
- Data profiling, cleansing and validation experience
- Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture
- Experience working with structured and semi-structured data
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical data solutions
- Experience working within enterprise data governance frameworks
Technical Skills
You'll have experience with many of the following:
- Advanced SQL
- Data Modelling
- Dimensional Modelling
- Data Vault 2.0
- Relational Database Design
- ETL / ELT Development
- Data Quality
- Metadata Management
- Data Lineage
- Data Governance
- Azure Data Platform
- Azure Data Factory
- Databricks
- Synapse Analytics
- APIs
- Git
- CI/CD concepts
- Cloud Data Platforms
You'll Stand Out If You Have
- Financial services or enterprise-scale data experience
- Experience building governed data products
- Strong understanding of semantic modelling
- Exposure to self-service analytics platforms
- Experience improving performance and reducing cloud processing costs
- Knowledge of modern data architecture principles
- Passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing
- Fleet experience
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering or a related field
Success in This Role
The successful candidate is someone who:
- Thinks analytically and enjoys solving complex data problems
- Builds high-quality, scalable data solutions
- Takes ownership and delivers consistently
- Has exceptional attention to detail
- Works collaboratively across technical and business teams
- Is passionate about data quality and governance
- Continuously looks for ways to improve automation, efficiency and performance
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to join one of South Africa's most advanced enterprise data environments, working with modern cloud technologies and large-scale data platforms that support business-critical decision-making.
You'll be part of a collaborative, highly skilled team where you'll have the opportunity to influence how enterprise data is designed, governed and consumed while working on projects that have real business impact.
