# Senior BI & Data Engineering Consultant

About the Role A large South African retailer is looking to move beyond Excel-based reporting and build a meaningful analytics and BI capability. They need a senior consultant who can engage directly with business stakeholders, assess the current data environment, define what good looks like, and then build it. This is both an advisory and a hands-on delivery role – the right person is comfortable doing both without needing a team around them to execute. Due to the high volume of applications expected, candidates who have not received feedback within two weeks of applying should consider their application unsuccessful. Key Responsibilities Engage GRC stakeholders to understand business objectives, current reporting challenges, and priority requirements Help define KPIs and measures for tracking business performance and strategic initiatives Investigate data sources, assess data quality, availability, and integration gaps Recommend an appropriate reporting and analytics approach based on business needs and the existing technology environment Design and develop data pipelines, transformations, and data models where required Build reports and dashboards that support m

- **Id**: 3940068
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-bi-data-engineering-consultant>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-13T07:41:37Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-13T07:41:37Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 27
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2358
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce

## Company

- **Id**: 1935342
- **Name**: Salt
- **Domain**: welovesalt.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/welovesalt>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 1218
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 146
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 27

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T12:23:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 44
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 26
- **Expected fill days**: 146
- **Reasons**: seen:26, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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