Junior BI Engineer

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 24/05/2024 We’re hiring! We’re looking for a smart, innovative BI Engineer to join our team and shape Pargo into a leading data-driven business. Join us and be part of a fast-growing business that is disrupting the ecommerce delivery landscape in South Africa.

What you will be doing

You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of BI tooling used to report on and analyze Pargo’s business intelligence data. You will be collaborating with the data team and business stakeholders to create dashboards and reports, and provide insights as requested.

Your responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a distributed team to create dashboards and KPIs to show the business performance to management
• Collaborate with data engineer to create specifications for new data structures and ETL pipelines
• Build various data visualizations to tell the story of trends, patterns, and outliers
• Ensure data accuracy by validating data for new and existing tools
• Modify existing reports, extracts, dashboards and cubes as necessary
• Collect, analyze and share data to help make strategic product decisions
• Own the design and development of automated solutions for recurring reporting and in-depth analysis

Requirements

Someone who is aligned to our values and approach and:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or information systems or related field
• Experience in a BI or Data Visualization role advantageous
• Experience with SQL, SQL Server, ETL, SSRS, SSIS, and SSAS software, systems, and programs
• Experience with Python, redSHIFT, Cloud, TSQL, and R language software and systems
• Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik, etc
• Fluent in statistics, datasets, and scripting
• Comfortable making decisions and managing stakeholders
• A problem solver and critical thinker
• Familiar with version control and relational databases
• Based in Cape Town and can be in our office in Cape Town City Centre for 2-3 days a week

Our Approach

Our vision is to create access for anybody in Africa. Our approach to achieving this is to:

• Take action
• Execute exceptionally
• Be transparent
• Prioritise our customers and lastly and most importantly
• Dream BIG

We have a great young team of hard-working colleagues who enjoy the following benefits:

• Valuable learning opportunities from seasoned professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit
• Insight into the running of a high growth, innovative start-up
• Flexible working - a combination of remote working and in office in our beautiful office space in Gardens
• Competitive remuneration
• Compelling bonus structure
• Contribution to medical aid and life cover
• Encouragement of own initiatives
• Space for self-growth
• Fun activities with a cool team that regularly get together to do things like action cricket, pub quizzes and runs

About Pargo

Pargo is a smart logistics company based in Cape Town that makes last-mile distribution more accessible, affordable and convenient through our network of tech-enabled pickup points. Founded in 2015, Pargo now boasts one of the country’s largest networks with more than 4,000 pickup points nationally. We empower consumers, companies and couriers to send and receive parcels across Southern Africa ー and we are on a mission to create access for anybody in Africa. This mission guides us as we continue to strive to be a key enabler of ecommerce on the continent. #J-18808-Ljbffr