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Mentors and guides junior Analytics Engineers.\nJob Responsibilities\nAnalytics Engineering AlignmentDrive understanding of the purpose, behaviour and user interactions with the data to optimise self-service offerings and improve Nedbank users' experience in accessing data, provide support to users in understanding and accessing data.\nProvide overall Data Management Guidance and alignment to Nedbank's Data Management frameworks and standards.\nSupport the achievement of the Nedbank data strategy, data architecture roadmap, business strategy, objectives and values.\n\nDesign Data and Conceptual ModellingDisplays a deep understanding of business data and information requirements, the related data flow, business processes and systems that generate the data required as well as the properties, profile and behaviour of the data.\nPartner with stakeholders to lead discovery and prioritisation, translate requirements into a data-product backlog with data contracts and acceptance criteria, manage trade-offs and ensure delivery aligns to measurable outcomes and SLAs.\nCollaborate with various teams including Data Modelers, Data Engineers, Data Architects and Data Governance to align data discovery insights and implement complex data solutions.\nHas an intermediate understanding of Data, Object Oriented, Data Vault, Relational and Dimensional modelling concepts and techniques.\n\nData ArchitectureDesign, build, and maintain scalable data architecture, including data models, schemas and metadata, to support efficient data storage, retrieval, and analysis.\nOversee data collection mechanisms and how they fit into data architecture, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to ensure quality and accuracy.\nContinuously refine data analysis techniques and explore new techniques, be familiar with all the tools and systems within the Nedbank Data Ecosystem, and enhance the quality of work.\n\nDatabases SpecificationsApprove database specifications, ensuring all agreed standards and protocols are followed and data integrity is preserved.\nPerform data testing and validation activities such as error resolution and data quality validation end to end through the data lifecycle.\nProvide detailed data specifications for downstream engineering tasks.\nUse data profiling techniques, contribute to the definition of data standards, identify potential data quality issues, report on and propose possible solutions.\n\nJob Responsibilities Continue\nDatabases Installation\nData PipelinesBuild and maintain simple data pipelines to efficiently extract data from multiple sources, in multiple formats and structures, and load target systems, whilst transforming data to a common model or structure, to provide data in a consistent, useable format to Nedbank data stakeholders.\nAutomate, monitor and improve the performance of data pipelines.\nEnsure that data lineage is implemented in the metadata hub for all data pipelines built.\nEnsure that data validation and reconciliation checks are implemented in the data pipelines to maintain a high level of data accuracy, consistency and security.\nInstall and test complex databases and associated products to ensure they are suitable for use and meet customer requirements.\nBuild and maintain APIs in collaboration with Data and/or Software Engineers.\nHas an Intermediate understanding of the utilisation and adoption of Cloud Technologies and platforms in database Installation.\n\nData ProtectionEnsure that all work adheres to regulatory requirements, maintaining compliance with all relevant data policies, privacy standards, and ownership guidelines.\n\nEssential Requirements\nUndergraduate Degree\nGeneral Experience: Experience enables job holder to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (Over 3 years to 6 years)\nManagerial Experience: Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)\nAdvanced SQL skills including understanding of window functions and set operators.\nBasic Python.\nUnderstanding DataVault, dimensional or relational models.\nGood communications skills and an assertive personality.\nBeneficial Experience\nIntermediate python skills (object orientated to do automated testing and validation frameworks)\nStrong understanding of PY-Spark\nWorking in a data warehouse.\nDatabricks or Fabric certification (not introduction but Data Analyst or Data Engineer).\nModelling experience.\nUnderstanding parquet files and delta tables in cloud.\nTechnical Expertise\nEnabling Self-Service Insights: Works with full competence to create intuitive, governed data models and metrics, document them and empower stakeholders to self-serve insights. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.\nBuild Data Products: Works with full competence to create reliable datasets/metrics/APIs, document and permission them, deploy to users, monitor and improve. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.\nDesign Data Products: Works at an advanced level to discover user needs, define value and outcomes, specify data contracts, success metrics and plan the roadmap. Typically works independently and provides guidance.\nData Visualisation: Works at an advanced level to select the best data visualising tools to create accessible and accurate visuals and to turn these into a clear narrative, highlighting what matters and guide decisions. Typically works independently and provides guidance.\nData Governance Principles: Works with full competence to manage data in accordance with the organisation's data governance protocols, including sourcing, handling, classifying, storing, monitoring, extracting, loading, transporting and securing relevant data, while understanding and applying data quality principles to enhance the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of organisational data. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.\n\nBusiness Data Modelling: Works with full competence to conduct activities to collect, analyse, diagram (model) and report information and data flow, including state changes, to help make strategic decisions, achieve major goals, and solve complex problems. 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