ABOUT THE ROLE

The Harambee Software Development team is looking for an exceptional midlevel
Data Analyst to join their dynamic team based in Johannesburg. The
objective of the role of Data Analyst is to deep dive into our data, helping to
maintain, understand and report on it. You will use data to solve tough business
problems, provide insights and in so doing, enable your colleagues to track
progress and make decisions. This role is about solving problems with fit-forpurpose
data and analytics techniques.
Doing this at Harambee will mean doing all that in an organisation that changes
lives and has a culture of teamwork, openness, and collaboration. If this
prospect excites you, then you may be the person we are looking for.

THE TECHNICAL CHALLENGE

We run an Agile Development Programme in a DevOps infrastructure and
culture. Our cloud-native technology stack is hosted in Google Cloud Platform.
The data landscape includes MYSQL, Big Query, Composer, Python and PowerBI.
This technology stack is currently being revised to drive a strategy of
simplification, business user enablement and data integrity. Google did a case
study on us. READ IT (https://cloud.google.com/customers/harambee/)

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

1. Planning and strategy

• Engage with various stakeholders to understand the business and data analysis goals in context of Harambee’s strategy and vision
• Design data solutions for real-time and batch environments
• Document the planning, implementation, and operation of the data platform
• Select and integrate any big data tools and frameworks required to enable the business and data analysis goals
• Work closely with the data engineers, testers developers and business analysts to design and ensure delivery of data requirements

2. Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Work to deliver data analyses to derive business insights

• Work with the data engineers to ensure necessary and accurate data pipelines and models are in place
• Advise on data design, modelling and architecture to support outputs such as:
  • Data Warehouse
  • Data Marts
  • BI pipelines
  • Extracts, reports, and dashboards.
• Train and facilitate data adoption across Harambee business users
• Prepare analytical datasets for other teams
• Implement policies around data governance
• Monitor performance and collaborate on optimization
• Do data validation and quality assurance to ensure accurate outputs

COMPETENCIES

• Curiosity and drive to understand, improve and deliver
• Passionate about knowledge-sharing and working with people
• Able to communicate across all levels within and outside of an
  organizational structure, from candidates through to senior managers,
• Comfortable explaining data models, data structures and analytical
  findings to technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Willing to work overtime when required
• Willing and able to lead by example and live the company values
• Driven by the ideology of having an impact on people’s lives by
  providing mentorship to young people

By applying for this vacancy, you give consent to your CV to be reviewed for
other roles and allow your cv to be shared with the relevant persons at
Harambee