[Hiring] Junior Analytics Engineer @JUMO

Role Description

As Junior Analytics Engineer, you will support the Analytics Engineering team in one or more of the many functional data domains within JUMO. You will report to the Data Modelling & Reporting Team Lead.

• Work closely with all stakeholders including technology platform Product Owners, Data & Prediction teams, Finance, Marketing, and external partners.
• Perform investigations on data warehouse and other operational data stores to understand and assist with real-world problems.
• Understand the end-to-end architecture of your functional domain and deep dive into the data to resolve issues or perform ad-hoc extracts.
• Perform quality assurance on new and existing data sets and pipelines to discover inconsistencies and anomalies.
• Use advanced data query and discovery skills for ad hoc analysis and support for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Clearly define reporting requirements and build operational reports and strategic dashboards.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience with data and/or systems analysis, at least some within a formal BI environment.
• University degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics, or equivalent industry training and experience.
• Proven ability in analytics, business process analysis, and presenting/communicating recommendations across all organization levels.
• Real-world understanding of data processing and storage.
• Experience with relational database management systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, and SQL Server.
• Proven ability to write complex data queries to retrieve data for analysis, modeling, and solving complex business scenarios.
• Ability to self-discover and understand complex data domains.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Understanding of Data Governance, Agile methodologies, and QA standards.
• Critical thinking under pressure with ambiguity and tight deadlines.
• Experience working with Github and JIRA or similar task or project management tools.

Requirements

• Experience in data environments making use of big data, data lakes, event-based streaming, and API integrations (bonus).
• Experience with reporting and business intelligence software such as Tableau, Power BI, Grafana, Superset (bonus).
• Experience with tools such as Airflow and NiFi (bonus).
• Experience with end-to-end BI solution design and build (bonus).
• Experience in the FinTech industry (bonus).

Benefits

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment.
• Working as one team towards our goal of financial inclusion.
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support.
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges.
• Flexible work practices enabling your best delivery.
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead.
• Using AI for good, ensuring more value for more customers.
• A stack of leading-edge technologies.
• Remote First working approach.

Company Description

This position is based in South Africa. We operate a remote first working approach, where working remotely is our default way of working. Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection.

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.