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Barloworld Equipment

Lead Data Analyst Global Grade 12

Barloworld Equipment City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

Machinery Manufacturing · 5,001-10,000 employees

2 d ago
data-analyst Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time South Africa
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About the role

The Lead Data Analyst will oversee the analytics and Power BI reporting function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, actionable insights. This role involves technical leadership, mentoring staff, and establishing governance standards to ensure data consistency and business alignment.

What they look for

Power BI Data Modeling DAX SQL Azure Snowflake Data Governance Technical Leadership Mentoring Data Storytelling Stakeholder Engagement KPI Frameworks Quality Assurance Semantic Modeling Analytical Thinking

Requirements

Candidates must possess a degree in Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field, along with extensive experience in Power BI and enterprise data environments. Strong proficiency in semantic modeling, DAX, SQL, and data platform management is required for this senior-level position.

Full description

Position outputs

To lead the analytics and Power BI reporting function, ensuring delivery of trusted, high-quality, and actionable insights that support business decision-making. The role combines hands-on development, technical leadership, governance, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring analytics outputs are scalable, consistent, and aligned to business needs, while mentoring analysts and driving analytics excellence.

  • Lead design, development, and delivery of Power BI reports, dashboards, and semantic models
  • Define and enforce analytics standards (data models, DAX, UX, deployment practices)
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to BI developers and analysts
  • Own quality assurance across all reporting and analytics outputs
  • Partner with data engineering and governance teams to ensure trusted, business-ready data
  • Engage stakeholders to define KPIs, metrics, and reporting requirements
  • Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and reporting standards
  • Drive adoption and effective use of Power BI across the organisation
  • High-quality Power BI dashboards and reports
  • Standardised, reusable semantic data models
  • Defined analytics standards and governance frameworks
  • Trusted KPI frameworks and consistent metric definitions
  • Improved analytics adoption and business insight usage
  • Reduced duplication through shared datasets and reporting assets

Minimum Required Qualification:

  • Degree in Analytics, Information Systems, Business Intelligence, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

Minimum Required Experience

  • Extensive experience with Power BI in enterprise environments
  • Strong experience in semantic modelling and DAX
  • Experience in analytics leadership or senior technical role
  • Experience working with data platforms (preferably Azure and Snowflake) and SQL

Minimum Required Competencies

  • Advanced Power BI and data modelling expertise
  • Strong SQL and data platform understanding
  • Data storytelling and stakeholder communication
  • Leadership, coaching, and mentoring capability
  • Analytical thinking and problem-solving
  • Attention to detail and quality assurance mindset

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