Data Solutions Lead

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Incubeta Full time

Founded in 2001, we are digital marketing experts who help brands to use digital to upgrade their growth. We are Google's longest serving European partner with a 20 year long relationship and have worked with them to deliver market-leading strategies for some of the world's biggest companies. Our work has been recognised through several awards, achieving 11 major award wins in 2020 including “Best Use of Data” and “Best Use of Technology” at the Drum Awards.

About the Analytics and Data Team

We are a full service Analytics team and form part of Incubeta's Global Operation Hub in Cape Town. We service clients globally, and are experts in Analytics Implementation, CRO, Data Solutions (Analysis, Engineering and a little Data Science). Our strength lies in our collaboration with each other and our drive to be the best in our fields. As the Data Solutions Team Lead, you will lead the Data Solutions pod in the bigger team.

**Overview Of Job Description**:
As a Data Solutions Lead, you are responsible for ensuring that the data team (consisting of Data Analysts and Data Engineers) are producing work of the highest standard and adhering to industry best practices.

Your team should be producing innovative and exciting data based solutions, dashboards and insights reports to solve complex data problems.

The team is expected to be able to present their models, data and insights to clients and internal teams either from a dashboard, Google Sheets or from Google Slides in an understandable and simplified manner to ensure that the work is understood and bought into by all stakeholders.

You are expected to have a relentless curiosity about various business problems and a passion for inventing data-based solutions to those challenges.

You are required to:

- Analyze data to discover hidden trends; deliver insights and analysis with clear recommendations
- Build well-managed data solutions, tools, and innovative prototypes to enable self-service frameworks
- Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Document analytics projects in a manner that ensures specific processes can be replicated and scaled across the organization
- Collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders in an agile and dynamic environment
- Maintain a profitable team with reasonable billable hours.

Place Within Organisation
- Reports to the Head of Analytics and Data in the Analytics and Data Team in the Global Ops Team.
- Works with the global ops team, international analytics teams, local and international commercial teams and consultants.

Knowledge And Experience

**_REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE_**

As a Data Solutions Lead, you are required to provide advanced analysis and insights to our clients and internal teams through Looker Studio, BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform and other tools. In order to successfully perform this role, you will need the following hard and soft skills:
Hard Skills
- Expert SQL
- Advanced BigQuery
- Google Cloud Platform certified (Advantageous)
- Good Python & / R
- Probability and Statistics
- Prescriptive, predictive and statistical Modeling advantageous
- Presentation Skills
- Provide training to internal and external teams; including but not limited to:

- Looker Studio
- Data Literacy
- Introduction to SQL
- Introduction to BigQuery
- Knowledge of Key Metrics and Dimensions for GMP Platforms (DV360, CM360, SA360), Google Ads and Facebook
- Knowledge of Digital Media Strategy (Advantageous)
- Understanding of Data Science Principles and Practices
- Data Science Experience (Model design, build and testing) would be an advantage

Soft Skills
- Strong management and leadership skills
- Strong ability to delegate tasks to team members
- Strong time management skills
- Ability to mentor, guide and grow junior data analysts
- Excellent problem solving abilities
- Ability to think and act independently as well as collaboratively.
- Relentless enthusiasm and highly reliable.
- Ownership driven, pro-active to self-learn and make progress.
- Confidently deal with enquiries around analytics from and establish influential relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- An excellent communicator and be able to present ideas, verbally and in writing (to internal stakeholders and clients where required)
- Strong technical communicator - able to turn complex technical concepts into simple and easy to understand concepts for both internal teams and clients.
- Able to deliver difficult feedback as a Manager in a solutions driven way.
- Exceptional attention to detail and pride in any work produced.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, pro-learning environment on multiple priorities simultaneously. Strong ability to prioritize and manage own time as well as assisting teams where needed
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Accountable for your actions even when making mistakes
- Organized and detail oriented
- Be approachable and open


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