Database Analyst at Afripoint Group Limited

About the role.

• We are searching for an experienced data analyst to join our team. 
• The ideal candidate will be highly skilled in all aspects of data analytics, including mining, generation, and visualization.
• Additionally, this person should be committed to transforming data into readable, goal-oriented reports that drive innovation and growth.

Objectives of this role

• Develop, implement, and maintain leading-edge analytics systems, taking complicated problems and building simple frameworks
• Identify trends and opportunities for growth through analysis of complex datasets
• Evaluate organizational methods and provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for datasets
• Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization
• Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, and develop and maintain protocols for handling, processing, and cleaning data
• Work directly with managers and users to gather requirements, provide status updates, and build relationships

Responsibilities

• Work closely with project managers to understand and maintain focus on their analytics needs, including critical metrics and KPIs, and deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers
• Proactively analyze data to answer key questions for stakeholders or yourself, with an eye on what drives business performance, and investigate and communicate which areas need improvement in efficiency and productivity
• Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis, with reporting components from multiple data sources
• Define and implement data acquisition and integration logic, selecting an appropriate combination of methods and tools within the defined technology stack to ensure optimal scalability and performance of the solution
• Develop and maintain databases by acquiring data from primary and secondary sources, and build scripts that will make our data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across datasets

Required skills and qualifications

• Three or more years of experience mining data as a data analyst
• Proven analytics skills, including mining, evaluation, and visualization
• Technical writing experience in relevant areas, including queries, reports, and presentations
• Strong SQL or Excel skills, with an aptitude for learning other analytics tools
• Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB and Cassandra.
• Experience with popular statistical and machine learning techniques, such as clustering, linear regression, KNN, decision trees, etc.
• Good scripting skills and knowledgeable in python, and R language
• Proficiency in at least one data visualization tool, such as Matplotlib, Plotly, D3.js, ggplot, etc.
• Experience with BI tools such as Tableau and Power BI.
• Great communication skills.

Preferred skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in mathematics, computer science, economics, or statistics
• Experience with database and model design and segmentation techniques
• Strong programming experience with frameworks, including XML, JavaScript, and ETL
• Practical experience in statistical analysis through the use of statistical packages, including Excel, SPSS, and SAS
• Proven success in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.