Senior Analytics Engineer

**Senior Analytics Engineer – Cape Town** We’re building the future of financial services in Southern Africa. At Lesaka, our mission is to make financial services accessible, scalable, and efficient for businesses and consumers. Data sits at the heart of how we **price, manage risk, optimise revenue, and scale sustainably**. We’re building a **modern, scalable data platform** — and we’re looking for a **Senior Analytics Engineer** to help us define and build the **core analytics layer** that the business runs on. **Your Mission** Your mission is simple: **Build trusted, scalable data models that enable better decisions — and empower teams to self\-serve data confidently.** You’ll work across Product, Finance, Risk, and Operations to turn complex data into **reliable, well\-structured datasets**that are easy to use and widely adopted. **What You’ll Be Doing** **Build Scalable Analytics** * Develop and maintain **dbt models** across staging, intermediate, and marts * Structure **transactional and financial data** into clean, reusable datasets * Write and optimise SQL in **BigQuery** (performance \+ cost) * Work with Data Engineering on pipelines (e.g. **Airflow**) **Enable Self\-Service Analytics** * Design datasets that are **intuitive, well\-documented, and easy to use** * Reduce reliance on raw tables and ad hoc SQL * Ensure consistent, trusted data for **Looker / BI consumption** * Help teams answer questions independently without needing constant data support **Own Data Quality \& Metrics** * Define and standardise **core KPIs (single source of truth)** * Implement **data tests and validation frameworks** * Ensure consistency across finance, product, and operational reporting **Partner with the Business** * Work closely with **Product, Finance, Risk, and Operations teams** * Translate business requirements into **scalable data models** * Support better decision\-making through **trusted data foundations** **Raise the Bar** * Improve data modeling standards and best practices * Contribute to better **documentation, lineage, and discoverability** * Reduce manual reporting and fragmented logic across teams **What You’ll Bring** * 5\+ years experience in **Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or BI** * Advanced SQL skills (complex transformations, optimisation) * Experience with **dbt in production** * Experience with **BigQuery or modern cloud data warehouses** * Strong data modeling skills (facts, dimensions, grain) **Senior Expectations** * Comfortable working **cross\-functionally with senior stakeholders** * Able to take **ambiguous problems and turn them into structured solutions** * Strong ownership — you care about **data quality, usability, and outcomes** * Able to influence **standards and best practices** * Clear communicator — able to explain data simply and effectively **Bonus if you have** * Experience in **fintech, payments, or financial services** * Exposure to **Airflow or orchestration tools** * Experience working with...