• Take ownership of our BI ecosystem and drive high-impact improvements in data reliability, performance, and business insights. • This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, and business strategy, working closely with Marketing and cross-functional teams to ensure data is not only accurate — but actionable. • Play a key role in transforming how the company uses data to make decisions. • Own and improve the reliability and performance of dashboards and reporting systems • Design and optimize data models and SQL transformations in the data warehouse • Build and maintain scalable BI solutions using Tableau and cloud data platforms • Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and anomaly detection systems • Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into robust data products • Improve query performance and reduce reporting inefficiencies • Define and standardize KPI frameworks, especially for Marketing metrics • Ensure documentation, ownership, and governance across all BI assets

• Define and own the multi-year roadmap for the data platform, aligning investments in infrastructure, tooling, and headcount with business strategy. • Lead and grow two high-performing teams—Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering—cultivating a collaborative, feedback-rich environment with clear career pathways. • Architect and oversee scalable data pipelines across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery, for both batch and streaming use cases. • Champion best practices in analytics engineering, including semantic layer design, dbt modelling standards, data contracts, and metrics governance. • Partner with Data & Decision Science, Product, Finance, and Commercial teams to deliver high-quality, self-serve data solutions aligned to business needs. • Ensure data platform reliability, observability, SLAs, and incident response, treating the platform as a product with real users. • Drive vendor and tool evaluations for the modern data stack (cloud warehouse, orchestration, cataloging, transformation, reverse ETL, etc.). • Set and enforce data quality, documentation, and governance standards to build trust across the business. • Champion use of AI coding assistants and LLM-powered tooling (e.g. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude) to accelerate delivery and reduce toil. • Implement AI-native patterns—LLM-generated documentation, anomaly detection, data quality monitoring, and automated root-cause analysis. • Prototype NL-to-SQL and AI-powered BI tools to empower self-serve analytics for non-technical users. • Build foundational data infrastructure (feature stores, vector stores, model metadata, evaluation datasets) to enable AI and ML experimentation and scale.

• Architect and maintain robust, modular data models in Snowflake using dbt, following industry-standard modeling methodologies (e.g., Kimball). • Write and tune advanced SQL to ensure optimal query performance, cost-efficiency, and resource management within the Snowflake environment. • Implement and manage automated testing, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure data accuracy, freshness, and lineage. • Partner with business units to define KPIs, capture requirements, and translate business logic into technical data specifications. • Own the full data lifecycle from ingestion to production-grade data marts and strategic BI visualizations and dashboard building. • Apply software engineering best practices to data development, including version control (Git), CI/CD, and detailed technical documentation. • Continuous refactoring of legacy code and data structures to improve maintainability and scalability of the analytics stack.

At Mukuru, data isn’t just numbers it’s how we unlock smarter decisions, better experiences, and greater financial access across Africa. As a Senior BI Analytics Engineer, you’ll play a key role in transforming complex data into trusted, scalable insights that power the business. Why this role matters You’ll sit at the intersection of data, technology, and business turning raw, fast-moving data into reliable, high-impact data products. Your work will directly influence decision making across a growing fintech platform serving millions. What you’ll do Build the foundation of insight - Design and develop scalable data models (facts, dimensions, data marts) in Snowflake - Translate business needs into clean, reusable, and trusted data assets - Build and optimise ELT pipelines using SQL and modern tooling Drive quality and performance - Implement data quality checks, governance, and validation processes - Continuously improve model performance, structure, and usability - Ensure data is accurate, reliable, and ready for decision-making Collaborate and influence - Work closely with Data Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists - Partner with stakeholders to turn requirements into impactful solutions - Contribute to Agile delivery, sprint planning, and peer reviews Shape the data ecosystem - Collaborate with architects on data modelling standards and architecture - Contribute to evolving best practices, tools, and frameworks - Mentor junior team members and support a culture of learning and excellence What you bring - 5+ years’ experience in Analytics Engineering / BI Development - Advanced SQL skills with strong experience in data transformations - Solid expertise in dimensional modelling (Kimball, star/snowflake schemas) - Experience with Snowflake, Matillion (or similar), and ELT pipelines - Understanding of data quality, governance, and testing principles - Experience working in cross-functional, Agile teams Our tech stack - Snowflake (Cloud Data Warehouse) - Matillion (ETL orchestration) - Git + Liquibase (Version control & CI/CD) - SQL (Primary language) Nice to have - Python for data automation - Exposure to Power BI or similar BI tools - Experience with data testing frameworks and observability tools - Background in fintech, consulting, or high-growth environments I am sure you are reading this job description and meet majority of the criteria BUT you may also still not be 100% comfortable in applying. We believe that there is a place for everyone under the Mukuru sun and we want YOU to contribute to our diverse tapestry of talent. So come on, take a leap of faith, and send your application if you meet majority of our requirements. Remember to include a snippet of how you will bring value and help us build a future of success that will help us determine where and how you may best be suited” Maybe you are just the future Mukurian we need!! Should you be appointed in a remote/work from home role at Mukuru, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a ‘work-like’ environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity and service to our customers. If you do not receive any response after two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful. NB: ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLANS