52 Data Analytics jobs in Durban

Do you thrive in dynamic environments where your analytical skills can drive strategic decision-making? We are a forward-thinking organization dedicated to leveraging the power of data to fuel growth and drive innovation within the Commercial department. As we continue our quest for improved outcomes and strategic growth, we are seeking a skilled and motivated BI Developer to play a pivotal role in enhancing our business intelligence system.

• Translate business needs into technical specifications.
• Collaborate with teams to define data requirements and integrate systems.
• Conduct thorough data validation and cleansing to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Design, develop, and maintain data models, dashboards, and reports.
• Create tools to store data and execute database queries for analysis.
• Develop visualizations and reports for projects.
• Conduct unit testing and troubleshooting.
• Evaluate and improve data collection processes and data quality checks.
• Provide training and support to users on data analytic tools and techniques.
• Stay updated on industry trends and advancements in data analytics.

• BSC, BCom, or equivalent degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Proven industry experience as a BI Developer or Data Scientist (automotive industry experience is a plus), minimum 3 years.
• Proficiency in database management systems and BI technologies.
• Background in data warehouse design and data mining.
• Experience with BI technologies (preferably Qliksense or Microsoft Power BI).
• Strong knowledge of SQL and working with large complex data sets.
• Experience in other analytical tools such as Python or R.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Job category: SAP Consultancy and Implementation

Location: Durban

Contract: Permanent

Remuneration: Market Related

EE position: Yes

A position has become available for a Business Intelligence Support - SAP BW to join our dynamic team.

The purpose of the Business Intelligence Support – SAP BW is to ensure the smooth operation and optimal performance of the SAP BW system, both old and new. The role shall provide technical support, monitor system performance, and implement enhancements and requires strong problem-solving skills, and excellent communication abilities. 

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Provide technical support for SAP BW system, including troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Monitor system performance and implement improvements as needed.
• Collaborate with other team members to develop and implement new features and enhancements.
• Conduct testing to ensure the queries built meet business requirements and are free of defects.
• Maintain system documentation and provide training to users as needed.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in SAP BW technology.
• Any other ad hoc duties as required by management.
• Matric.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in IT, IS, or Computer Science.
• At least 3 years of experience in SAP BW support/testing.
• Strong technical knowledge of SAP BW, including data modelling, data extraction, and reporting.
• Experience in a support environment including handling support tickets, reporting and escalation management.
• Strong skills in SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BW.

• A high degree of confidentiality, emotional maturity, ethical values and integrity.
• Must have a high stress tolerance and the ability to work efficiently under pressure.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, to interface effectively with all levels of colleagues and with external customers in a team orientated manner.
• An innovative thinker and ability to solve complex problems.
• Must be collaborative, influential, and rational.
• Precise planning and excellent organisational/administration skills.
• Exceptional accuracy and extreme attention to detail.
• Quality orientated and self-driven to achieve result.

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Business Intelligence Developer - Data Engineering with Purpose
Join a team where data isn't just stored—it's activated.

We're looking for a BI Developer who can turn complexity into clarity, building solutions that empower smarter decisions across the business.

If you thrive on transforming messy data into meaningful insight and enjoy collaborating with stakeholders to solve real problems, this role is for you.

What You'll Do
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Design & Build BI Solutions
Architect and engineer data pipelines from multiple sources, transforming raw data into clean, structured insights.

Build dashboards, reports, and data warehouses with precision and performance in mind.

Understand the Business
Partner with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions that drive real-world impact.

Ensure Quality & Security
Lead QA and CI/CD processes to ensure data integrity, reliability, and compliance. Document thoroughly and manage secure access to sensitive data, including PII.

Support & Improve
Troubleshoot issues, support users, and continuously enhance BI tools and processes. Suggest new approaches, test emerging technologies, and contribute to team growth.

Deploy Intelligent BI Solutions
Design and implement AI-driven BI tools, including automated data processing agents that streamline operations and elevate decision-making.

Administer BI Environments
Manage and optimise Azure and Power BI tenants, ensuring security, efficiency, and alignment with governance standards.

Build Custom Business Tools
Use Power Apps and Power Automate to develop tailored applications and surveys that improve user engagement and operational responsiveness.

Enable Knowledge Sharing
Deliver training and updates to teams and stakeholders, making BI tools accessible and impactful across the organisation.

What You Bring

• Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• Experience: 2-4 years in BI development or a similar data-focused role
• Certifications: Not required, but experience with BI tools and cloud platforms is a plus

Your Skillset

• Languages & Tools: SQL, Power BI, Azure, ETL tools
• Technical Know-How: Data modelling, warehousing, DevOps pipelines, data protection principles
• Soft Skills: Clear communication, analytical thinking, teamwork, and a passion for learning

Why Choose Our Client?

• Work with cutting-edge tools and technologies
• Be part of a collaborative, data-driven global team
• Help shape how data is used across the organisation

Overview

As a PowerBi Business Intelligence Developer , you'll be at the heart of turning raw data into powerful insights. You'll build smart systems that help teams make better decisions, faster. This role blends technical expertise with problem-solving and collaboration, perfect for someone who loves data and wants to make a real impact.

An on-site role based in La Lucia. Competitive compensation package. NOTE: This is a 12-month contract.

• Design & Build BI Solutions: Create data pipelines and structures that transform messy data into clean, usable insights. Think dashboards, reports, data warehouses, all built with precision.
• Understand the Business: Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions that solve real problems.
• Ensure Quality & Security: Test everything, document thoroughly, and make sure data access is secure and compliant.
• Support & Improve: Troubleshoot issues, support users, and continuously improve tools and processes.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience: 2-4 years in BI development or a similar data-focused role.
• Certifications: Not required, but experience with BI tools and cloud platforms is a big plus.

• Languages & Tools: SQL, Power BI, Azure, ETL tools.
• Tech Know-How: Data modelling, warehousing, DevOps pipelines, data protection principles.
• Soft Skills: Clear communication, teamwork, analytical thinking, and a passion for learning.

• Requirements Analysis: Understand what the business needs and plan how to deliver it.
• Solution Design: Work with senior developers to design scalable, efficient BI systems.
• Development: Build ETL processes, dashboards, and reports that bring data to life.
• Quality Assurance: Review and test solutions to ensure they meet high standards.
• Production Support: Fix bugs, resolve data issues, and keep systems running smoothly.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Train users, share updates, and make BI tools easy to use.
• Continuous Improvement: Suggest better ways to work, test new tools, and help the team grow.

• You'll work with cutting-edge tools and technologies.
• You'll be part of a collaborative, data-driven team.
• You'll help shape how data is used across the organization.

Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills. Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.

• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.

• Provide technical leadership to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge sharing initiatives.
• Engage regularly with software architects in order to ensure the development within the team is according to architectural guidelines.
• Work with other developers, designers/analysts, and architects to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met and the code base is sound.
• Ensure that all technical solutions that are rolled out consider compatibility with other environments and dependencies; have a high usability factor; are reliable to reduce down time and perform at maximum efficiency during peak periods of usage; consider security at its highest level.
• Drive the adoption of processes within the team which consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; effective resource utilization during operation and where the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity requirements are met.

• Ensure rigorous testing of any solution before deployment and create standards and processes within the team to align to these.
• Ensure the delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been tested thoroughly.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support load.
• Where possible work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
• Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

• Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team’s performance and company bottom line.
• Technical problems and opportunities are anticipated and dealt with immediately considering any technical dependencies.
• Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
• Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
• Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within team and to the wider group.
• Incorporates the new abilities into the day to day operational activities to improve performance of products and systems.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

• Identify team members requiring a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
• Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in transfer of the knowledge.

• Provides guidance, training, and problem-solving assistance to other team members.
• Mentors and contributes to the growth of junior and intermediate team members.
• Designs and delivers end-user training and training materials.

• Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team.
• Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team.
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
• Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8-10 years’ experience in technical lead role.
• Experience in end-user report development.
• Proven ETL experience using SSIS.
• Hands-on experience in designing, prepping, configuring, installing, troubleshooting and maintaining complete BI Solutions.
• Identify and resolve data reporting issues.
• Ability to create efficient T-SQL objects and processes according to spec.
• Advanced experience in T-SQL query optimization, troubleshooting and debugging.
• In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing and ETL framework.
• Advanced Knowledge of the Kimball data warehouse lifecycle.
• Expert Data warehousing experience using fact tables, dimensions and indexing.
• Experience in Table partitioning and efficient data migration.
• Expert experience in creating and maintaining multidimensional cubes using SSAS.
• Relevant Management certification may be required.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
• Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.

BET Software is one of the most diverse betting software providers in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a rapidly growing international footprint. Our multiskilled Team is responsible for providing advanced software solutions, while supporting incredibly high transactional volumes in a fast-paced industry, making BET Software a lively and engaging place to be.

Our progressive use of technology enables our talented Team to work with the tech stack of their choice and we encourage an environment and culture that supports collaboration, learning, and growth. We believe that our strength lies in our diversity and that Teamwork makes the dream work, a place where you can flourish amongst like-minded individuals.

MANCOSA, a DHET-registered and CHE-accredited private higher education distance education provider, offering undergraduate and postgraduate business qualifications, has the following vacancy available.

CORE PURPOSE

MANCOSA is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Business Intelligence (BI) Developer to join our data team. The BI Developer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining BI solutions that transform raw data into meaningful insights. The ideal candidate should have a passion for data, strong analytical skills, and experience with BI tools and data modelling.

1. Design, develop, and deploy BI solutions (e.g., dashboards, reports, data visualisations).
2. Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
3. Build and maintain data models, data marts, and OLAP cubes.
4. Write complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
5. Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their analytical needs.
6. Optimise existing BI solutions for performance and scalability.
7. Maintain and support the BI platform, ensuring data accuracy and report integrity.
8. Conduct unit testing and troubleshooting.
9. Create documentation for BI solutions, processes, and best practices.
10. Support data governance and data quality initiatives.

1. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
2. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
3. Ability to manage multiple tasks and work independently or in a team.
4. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Analytics, or a related field.
5. BI or Data Analytics certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate, Tableau Desktop Specialist).
6. Experience in Agile or Scrum development methodologies.

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Data & Business Intelligence Developer who can transform complex, multi-source data into meaningful insights that drive decision-making. In this role, you’ll combine strong technical expertise with analytical thinking, working closely with business stakeholders to design, build, and deliver high-value BI solutions. You will leverage your skills in SQL, data modeling, and mathematical manipulation to extract insight from large datasets and present it through engaging, user-friendly reports and dashboards. This position requires both technical depth and business acumen, with a focus on creating trusted, actionable intelligence across the organization.

• Partner with stakeholders to understand business challenges, performance drivers, and information needs.
• Translate business questions into technical requirements, KPIs, and performance metrics.
• Conduct data discovery, quality assessments, and gap analysis to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Prototype analytical approaches to uncover trends, correlations, and predictive patterns.
• Design and build scalable data models and ETL processes across multiple data sources.
• Develop intuitive BI reports and dashboards using SQL, PowerPivot, Power BI and Qlik Sense
• Apply mathematical and statistical techniques to derive insights, improve forecasting, and support decision-making.
• Ensure reports are designed with clarity, usability, and storytelling in mind.
• Facilitate solution walkthroughs and demos to validate outputs with stakeholders.
• Mentor junior team members, sharing knowledge of data modeling, BI best practices, and analytical techniques.
• Contribute to the development of reusable BI components, templates, and data assets.
• Adhere to data governance and security frameworks.
• Perform regular audits and optimizations to ensure data accuracy and system performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve BI solution issues, providing ongoing support to business users.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (Honours preferred).
• 5+ years of experience working with SQL and relational databases.
• Proven track record in designing and delivering BI solutions.
• Strong skills in handling large, complex datasets and applying mathematical or statistical methods to extract insights.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, and translating needs into actionable BI outputs.
• Excellent problem-solving ability with a focus on creating practical, business-focused solutions.
• Strong communication skills, able to simplify and present technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.

• Experience in a logistics or supply chain environment.
• Exposure to Enterprise Resource Planning solutions like Syspro, SAP, etc.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, POPIA).

• Report & Dashboard Adoption Rate – % of targeted users actively engaging with BI outputs.
• Insight-to-Action Time – Average duration from requirement sign-off to delivery of a solution.
• Data Accuracy & Reliability – Number of defects or data-related errors reported by business users.
• Reuse Rate of BI Assets – % of new solutions leveraging shared datasets, templates, or logic.
• Stakeholder Satisfaction – Business feedback on the relevance and quality of BI outputs.

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