Analytics Engineer

We are X, bigly labs, Dis-Chem’s high-performance innovation hub; a place where bold ideas meet data, design, and radical customer focus to reimagine what healthcare can be.

Our mission is to power the future of healthcare by lowering costs, unlocking new possibilities, and improving access to healthcare for all South Africans. We do this through cutting-edge digital solutions that deliver smarter, more human, and truly patient-focused experiences. Here, your work is not limited to a whiteboard; it becomes real. It drives decisions, shapes experiences, and moves healthcare forward. We are driven by one big question: How do we use data and today’s technology to build breakthroughs to better health?

There’s only one question left: are you ready to make healthcare smarter, and actually mean it?

The Intermediate Analytics Engineer builds the silver and gold layers the business runs on: canonical models and certified metrics in SQL on Databricks, with the tests and documentation that keep them trustworthy. Gold is the product. Dashboards, analysts, applications and AI agents all consume the same certified tables and metric views, so every measure is defined once and used everywhere.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR?

Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 to 5 years in analytics engineering, data engineering or advanced analytics.
• Expert SQL: window functions, CTEs, complex joins and large analytical models.
• Strong data modelling: star schemas, dimensional modelling, fact and dimension design.
• Experience with a declarative transformation framework: Databricks Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, or dbt, which transfers directly.
• Git and CI/CD in data work: pull requests, review and automated deployment. The Databricks Git UI counts.
• Working SAP knowledge: BW objects such as InfoProviders, extractors and routines, plus S/4HANA or Business Data Cloud. This role reads SAP semantics daily during the BW-to-Databricks migration.

Advantageous

• Retail data, ideally pharmacy retail. Healthcare or financial services also count.
• Working Python for pipeline unit tests and transformations SQL cannot express.
• Coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex: turns repetitive migration work into automated, repeatable steps, each ported model reconciled against its SAP source.
• Exposure to Power BI or Qlik and how BI tools consume analytical models.