Head of Data Analytics
Valenture Institute (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
Job Description
Valenture is an exciting new start-up in the online education space. Our mission is to evolve what it means to go to school by transforming physical limitations into digital opportunities. We do this by providing students worldwide with a fully supported, global online high school experience, steeped in academic excellence and rooted in sustainable practices. We believe in providing more than just a quality online education we’re dedicated to building and empowering a purpose-driven, global student body and equipping them to make the best of both their individual and collective futures.
The role:
We are looking for a passionate, agile and highly motivated data specialist to lead the Data Analytics function at Valenture Institute, managing both the data analytics and data science capabilities. Through a combination of strong business understanding, technical ability and solid analytical and problem-solving skills, the Data amp; Analytics lead is responsible for driving a culture of data at Valenture, ensuring that the business has access to key metrics and is able to make informed decisions backed by accurate data. The ideal candidate must have experience in building end-to-end data solutions to democratize data across large organizations. They will be managing and prioritising the roadmap of the various data streams, ensuring that the data stack is robust and future-proof for the scalability of the business.
This role reports directly to the Head of Technology, working closely with technical and business stakeholders to understand, analyze, refine, prioritise and build the data requirements of the business. This role must be comfortable leading a data team, and work in an agile environment to innovate, craft, and drive intuitive features and solutions from concept to completion, to engage and delight our business users and promote the adoption of Valentures data stack.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Thought leadership on the solutions architecture of Valenture Institute’s technical data stack; including data governance management and strategy, and company-wide reporting and visualisation
- Maintain an end-to-end data solution that is cost effective, scalable and meets the reporting needs of the business, including dashboarding front end tools
- Becoming the technical point person on Valentures data stack, including but not limited to Snowflake (data warehouse), Dataform (transform layer) and Looker (BI tool)
- Ensure Valenture’s data policy is in line with industry standards and best practices
- Manage Valentures data pipeline, ensuring that the system is robust and the correct data points are gathered and stored across Valentures’ technical ecosystem
- Build ELT jobs based on jointly defined requirements to extract data from various cloud services, not yet incorporated into the data warehouse
- Design for long term scalability and maintainability to meet the growing needs of the business, by adopting a robust data modelling framework
- Manage 3rd party suppliers or contractors employed to assist with the development of the data function
- Work with business stakeholders from the Valenture team to understand problems and data sources, and play the pivotal role of architecting data models to address needs
- Be responsible for learning analytics at Valenture Institute, including the collecting and analysis of data about learners and their environments for the purpose of understanding and improving learning outcomes.
- Gather requirements, build roadmaps, and write great documentation for data sources that need to be modeled
- Manage the generation and distribution of reports to various Valenture stakeholders
- Support bug fixing and performance analysis along the data pipeline, including writing tests
- Be a strong advocate for a culture of process and data quality across development teams
- Automate existing reports and work with stakeholders to streamline reporting and analysis within the business
- Providing data-based technical support and assistance to the business, namely key data users
- Allow business stakeholders to gain meaningful insights of our internal and external users’ behaviour, visualised for various stakeholder reports
- Ensure close integration of data management and software engineering technologies into existing data structures
- Manage team budget and any software or project related costs, accurately forecasting into the future
- Define data roadmap and build stages, for both data analytics and data science streams
- Oversee build and implementation of data solution, adhering to strict quality measures
- Be the primary link between business stakeholders and the data development teams, ensuring business objectives are translated into high quality dashboards.
- Collaborate with business managers and st