Job Description

DESCRIPTIONWe are looking for an outstanding Business Intelligence Engineer with broad technical skills to build analytic and reporting capabilities to deliver on strategic analytical/reporting projects, define/produce end-to-end metrics that inform product, business, and marketing decisions and identify new growth opportunities through data-driven insights.The ideal candidate relishes working with large volumes of data, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts, and, above all else, is passionate about data and analytics. The candidate is an expert with business intelligence tools and passionately partners with the business to identify strategic opportunities where data-backed insights drive value creation. An effective communicator, the candidate crisply translates analysis result into executive-facing business terms. The candidate works aptly with internal and external teams to push the projects across the finishing line. The candidate is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big (while paying careful attention to detail), and enjoys working in a fast-paced and global team.Key job responsibilities
Core Responsibilities includes but not restricted to:
- Interfacing with business customers, gathering requirements and delivering complete BI solutions to drive insights and inform product, operations, and marketing decisions.
- Interfacing with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL (Redshift, Oracle) and ability to use a programming and/or scripting language to process data for modeling
- Evolve organization wide Self-Service platforms
- Building metrics to analyze key inputs to forecasting systems
- Leading complex analytical deep dives (Segmentation, A/B testing)
- Recognizing and adopting best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentationWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Cape Town, ZAFBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of SQL experience
- Demonstrated ability to interact with business customers, gather requirements and deliver complete scalable and sustainable BI solutionsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience working with redshift, Cradle or other AWS tools is a plus Hands On experience with Python,R is a plusAmazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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