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• Are you passionate about turning complex business requirements into trusted, high-quality data solutions?
• Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join their growing Credit Access Data team in Stellenbosch.
• This is an exciting opportunity to play a strategic role in shaping the organisation's data warehouse and data architecture, supporting the development of innovative credit products and enabling smarter decisions across product development, credit risk, pricing and client experience.
• You will work closely with senior business stakeholders, data developers and QA teams to translate business needs into actionable data solutions. Beyond delivery, you will help drive data quality, governance and best practices while leading a Community of Practice to strengthen data capabilities across the organisation.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Define data structures, sourcing and storage strategies to support trusted, reusable data across the business.
• Engage with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into technical data specifications.
• Develop user stories, acceptance criteria and detailed documentation.
• Coordinate delivery across data development and QA teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Design and lead test plans, validate data transformation logic and manage defect resolution.
• Drive data quality, governance and data management practices.
• Collaborate with data developers to define KPIs, metrics and dashboard requirements.
• Lead a Data Community of Practice, promoting knowledge sharing and consistent standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve data capabilities and quantify the business value delivered through data.

What We're Looking For

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field.
• 5–10 years' experience in Business Analysis and Data Analysis within complex data environments.
• At least 5 years' experience working cross-functionally and driving data capability initiatives.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical specifications and coordinating end-to-end delivery.
• Experience in banking, telecommunications or financial services will be advantageous.

Technical Expertise

• Strong SQL skills, including data validation, reconciliation and transformation logic.
• Solid understanding of dimensional data modelling, including Star and Snowflake schemas, fact and dimension tables.
• Ability to interpret and contribute to conceptual and logical data models.
• Experience with metadata management, documentation and data traceability.
• Understanding of Data Warehousing and Lakehouse architectures, data ingestion, ETL processes and data marts.
• Knowledge of dashboards, reporting, advanced analytics and predictive modelling.

Business & Delivery Skills

• Strong understanding of data governance and data management principles.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and project management.
• Ability to develop and manage user stories, acceptance criteria and test plans.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional facilitation skills.
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to translate data initiatives into measurable business value.
• Experience leading or facilitating a Community of Practice.

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• Our client in the banking sector is looking for experienced Senior Data Engineers to join a growing technical environment, developing and enhancing modern cloud-based data platforms.
• This is a hands-on engineering opportunity where you will be actively involved in writing code, building data pipelines, developing complex ETL/ELT processes and delivering scalable data solutions that support critical business and banking operations.

What you'll be doing

• Design, develop and optimise scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data platforms.
• Build complex ETL/ELT processes using advanced Python and SQL.
• Develop, implement and maintain data engineering solutions on AWS.
• Build and manage data integration, ingestion and processing frameworks.
• Work with large datasets and distributed data processing technologies.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automation and deployment processes.
• Implement data quality, monitoring and performance optimisation practices.
• Collaborate with architects, developers and other technical stakeholders to deliver robust data solutions.

What we're looking for

• Proven experience in a hands-on Data Engineering role.
• Strong practical Python development skills – actively writing and maintaining production code.
• Advanced SQL skills, including complex queries and data transformations.
• Practical experience building and managing data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud data technologies.
• Experience with ETL/ELT processes and modern data platforms.
• Understanding of CI/CD, automation and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience working with large-scale data environments and distributed processing.

Advantageous experience

• Exposure to Apache Kafka.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience within banking or financial services environments.
• Exposure to Salesforce Data Cloud (particularly for senior-level candidates).

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• We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join our client's team within the Asset Management / Investment Management space on a 12-month contract.
• This is an opportunity for a hands-on Business Analyst who enjoys working at the intersection of business, systems and technology, translating complex business needs into practical solutions and supporting delivery from requirements through to implementation.

What You'll Be Doing

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges and objectives.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions, workshops and stakeholder discussions.
• Analyse and document current and future-state business processes.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional and system requirements.
• Analyse existing systems, applications, workflows and business processes.
• Identify system, process and functional gaps and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Analyse system dependencies, integrations, interfaces and data flows.
• Document business rules, workflows, use cases, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, testers and technical teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Conduct gap, impact and root-cause analysis.
• Support solution design, SIT and UAT.
• Validate delivered functionality against agreed requirements and assist with defect resolution.

What We're Looking For

• Minimum 5 years' experience in Business Analysis, Systems Analysis or a similar role.
• Strong Business Analysis and Systems Analysis capabilities.
• Proven experience within Asset Management, Investment Management or a closely related investment environment.
• Strong requirements gathering and documentation skills.
• Experience defining functional and system requirements.
• Business process analysis and process mapping experience.
• Experience conducting gap and impact analysis.
• Exposure to systems integration, interfaces and data flows.
• Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Good understanding of the technology and software delivery lifecycle.
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Advantageous Skills

• SQL and data analysis
• Systems integration and interface analysis
• Investment / Asset Management platforms
• Agile / Scrum methodologies
• Jira and Confluence
• Microsoft Visio or other process-modelling tools
• System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Relevant Business Analysis qualifications or certifications

The Ideal Candidate

• You are an analytical, structured and solutions-focused professional who can confidently engage with both business and technical teams.
• You understand how business processes, systems, data and technology work together, and can investigate complex problems, identify gaps, define clear requirements and support the delivery of effective technology solutions.

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• Our client, a leading organisation within the banking sector, is looking for an experienced Senior Automation Engineer to join its Payments environment.
• This is an opportunity to work on automation initiatives supporting critical payment systems, improving application quality, streamlining processes and enabling continuous delivery.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing automation frameworks and solutions across front-end and back-end applications, building automated regression packs, integrating automated testing into development pipelines and generating comprehensive test reports.
• We are looking for someone with strong technical development capabilities who can take automation solutions from concept and design through to development, implementation and ongoing optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement automation frameworks, solutions and reusable components.
• Develop automated testing solutions covering front-end, back-end and end-to-end application functionality.
• Design, build, automate and maintain regression test packs for payment systems and applications.
• Automate regression pack execution to support application releases, system enhancements and ongoing maintenance.
• Develop automated functional, integration, smoke and regression tests.
• Automate front-end testing of web applications, user interfaces and payment-related workflows.
• Develop back-end automation covering APIs, databases, web services, system integrations and business logic.
• Develop automation scripts using programming languages such as Python, Java, C# or JavaScript.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing and deployment.
• Generate automated test reports, dashboards and execution results.
• Report on test coverage, execution progress, pass/fail rates, defects and overall application quality.
• Analyse test results, investigate failures and identify recurring issues.
• Maintain and optimise automation frameworks and regression packs as applications and business requirements evolve.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, solution architects and QA teams.
• Ensure automation solutions meet technical standards, security requirements, reliability and performance expectations.
• Maintain technical documentation and support automation solutions throughout their lifecycle.

Technical Requirements

Programming and Software Development

• Strong programming and scripting capabilities.
• Python, Java, C# or JavaScript.
• Object-oriented programming.
• Software development principles and practices.
• Building reusable automation components and frameworks.
• Debugging and troubleshooting.

Front-End, Back-End and Regression Automation

• Front-end automation using Selenium, Cypress or Playwright.
• Back-end automation covering APIs, web services, databases and application services.
• Automated regression testing and regression pack development.
• Experience building, maintaining and executing automated regression test suites.
• End-to-end automation testing across integrated systems.
• Functional, integration and smoke testing automation.
• API automation and validation.
• Experience automating web-based applications and enterprise systems.

Test Reporting and Quality Management

• Automated generation of test execution reports and dashboards.
• Reporting on test coverage, execution progress, pass/fail rates and defects.
• Analysis and interpretation of regression test results.
• Identifying failures, trends and recurring defects.
• Experience integrating automated test results with test management and reporting tools.

Systems Integration and Development Platforms

• REST APIs and web services.
• SQL and database integration.
• Git and version control.
• CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• AWS Cloud platform.
• Docker and containerisation would be advantageous.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant IT qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• 10+ years' experience in Automation Engineering, Software Development or Test Automation.
• Strong hands-on programming and scripting experience.
• Proven experience developing and implementing automated testing solutions.
• Experience building and maintaining automated regression packs.
• Experience with front-end and back-end automation.
• Experience integrating systems using APIs and web services.
• Experience generating automated test reports and analysing test results.
• Experience working within an Agile development environment.
• Strong analytical, technical and problem-solving skills.

Advantageous Experience

• Previous experience within banking or financial services.
• Exposure to payment systems, payment processing and transaction-related workflows.
• Experience working with enterprise-scale applications.
• DevOps and cloud-native solutions.
• Experience with complex system integrations.

What We Are Looking For

• We are looking for a technically strong, hands-on Automation Engineer who can do more than execute existing automated tests.
• The ideal candidate must be able to demonstrate their personal contribution to designing, coding, developing and implementing automation frameworks, automating regression packs, testing front-end and back-end functionality and producing meaningful test reports.
• You should be comfortable working with complex systems, identifying automation opportunities and delivering reliable, scalable automation solutions within a banking Payments environment.