Senior BI & Data Engineering Consultant at Salt South Africa

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 monitoring, proactive analysis, and business decision-making
• Validate outputs with stakeholders and refine solutions based on feedback
• Take full ownership of delivery, communicating progress, dependencies, and issues clearly throughout

Requirements

• Senior-level experience delivering end-to-end data and BI solutions, from requirements gathering through to development
• Strong SQL, data modelling, and data transformation capability
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and integrating data from multiple sources
• Proven BI development experience; able to build dashboards and reports that drive real business decisions
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to work with stakeholders whose requirements are not yet fully defined
• Ability to assess an existing data environment and make practical, grounded solution design recommendations
• Comfortable working independently across the full delivery lifecycle

Advantageous

• AWS environment experience
• Amazon QuickSight
• Qlik

Role Details

• Duration: 6 months
• Start date: ASAP, subject to selection and onboarding
• Location: Cape Town, 4 days on-site per week