Sabenza IT

Data & AI Solutions Specialist

Sabenza IT  •  Cape Town, ZA (Onsite)  •  6 days ago
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Job Description


To design, build and enable effective

data, analytics, and AI solutions

by understanding Capitec’s data environment, translating business needs into well-structured AI-ready data, and delivering practical, user-focused solutions that drive insight and business value.


Requirements


Key Responsibilities


  • Analyse existing data structures, models and flows, and design best-practice data architecture solutions.

  • Design and build dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions to support business decision-making.

  • Design, configure and build

    AI agents / copilots

    for internal users.

  • Contribute to the AI strategy with focus on practical enablement and business value.

  • Work across data, analytics and AI platforms to deliver end-to-end solutions.

  • Translate business requirements into scalable data, analytics and AI solutions.

  • Collaborate with data engineers, BI developers, solution architects and business stakeholders.

  • Ensure high data quality, governance and documentation.


Minimum Requirements


  • Tertiary qualification in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data, Analytics or related field.

  • Strong

    SQL

    and data analysis skills.

  • Experience in a data/analytics-focused role (Data Analyst, BI Developer, Technical Business Analyst, Data Engineer or AI Specialist).

  • Hands-on experience building

    dashboards and analytics solutions

    (Power BI, Qlik or similar).

  • Proven ability to translate business needs into data/analytics/AI solutions.

  • Experience working with relational databases and data modelling.


Ideal / Advantageous


  • Experience in financial services or banking.

  • Exposure to AWS cloud platforms.

  • Practical experience building or configuring

    AI agents, copilots or LLM-based solutions

    .

  • Experience with APIs and data integration.

  • Postgraduate qualification or AI/Data certifications.


Key Skills & Competencies


  • Strong data modelling and analytical thinking.

  • Hands-on BI development and visualisation skills.

  • Ability to build and iterate AI-enabled solutions.

  • Excellent communication – able to explain technical concepts to business users.

  • Proactive, curious and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.

  • Strong ownership, collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
Sabenza IT

About Sabenza IT

Sabenza iT Recruitment is a Level 2 BBBEE company with more than 23 years of expertise in Information Technology recruitment. Our team comprises 20 recruiters dedicated to providing top-notch services in recruiting for sectors such as SAP, IT Developers, and IT Security, among others. Sabenza iT is proud to be a wholly South African-owned company.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Natal, Cape Town, Gauteng, ZA
Year Founded
2013
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