Senior Data Analyst

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa 2U Full time

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission - to eliminate the back row in education - and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world's leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings - from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

**What We're Looking For**:
The purpose of this role is to serve as an analytics specialist in the business, focusing on building data structures to facilitate analytics, analysis and modelling of data with the purpose of providing data-driven insights that will enable the achievement of the business's overall goals and drive clinical and operational decision-making. The Senior Data Analyst will also provide guidance to team members.

**Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To**:

- Technical
- Cleansing and verifying the integrity of data and enhancing data sources where necessary
- Ensure code is thoroughly tested
- Ensure best practices are followed
- Analysis of data in order to provide data-driven insights through data mining and exploratory analysis
- Visualise data insights and communicate findings
- Use machine learning tools and statistical techniques to produce solutions to business problems
- Management
- Support, mentor and provide technical guidance to junior Data Analysts
- Business
- Collaborate with the data leads and stakeholders to understand the data requirements in order to provide them with support
- Leverage business knowledge to create solutions that enable enhanced business performance
- Help guide business when making technical decisions
- Personal
- Perform research and constantly stays on top of the industry's trends
- Adhere to internal Agile methodology
- Actively look for opportunities to improve through stretch assignments and continuous learning

**Things That Should Be In Your Background**:

- 5+ years experience in the Data industry
- Specific qualifications or technical skills:

- A Bachelor's degree (Stats, Engineering, Business Science preferred)
- Experience in data analysis and business intelligence
- Proficiency in SQL
- Proficiency in R or Python
- Experience with a reporting tool, such as Tableau
- Additional required skills:

- Good Problem Solving Skills
- Analytical, strategic and logical thinker
- Time management, discipline, accountability, self-motivation and eagerness to learn
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audience
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate to data solutions
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to collaborate effectively and work as part of a team as well as on your own
- Attention to Detail
- Curious and eager to learn
- Enjoy working in agile, fast paced environment
- Comfort with ambiguity, ready to solve complex problems
- Self aware and humble, ask for help/give help
- Resilience
- Empathise with end users and stakeholders

**Benefits & Culture**

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you're excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us - and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.
Full-time, ZA benefits include:

- 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
- Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
- 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for non-profit organization, study leave, sports leave and a company-wide festive season break

**2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement**

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we've taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike.

**About 2U Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU)**

**About edX**

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU). Together with the majority of the world's top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. A

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