Lead Data Analyst Global Grade 12
✨ AI Summary
Barloworld Equipment, an industrial equipment provider, is hiring a Lead Data Analyst to lead the analytics and Power BI reporting function. The role requires extensive enterprise experience with Power BI, DAX, semantic modelling, SQL, and data platforms like Azure and Snowflake. Candidates must hold a degree in a related field and demonstrate strong technical leadership, governance, and stakeholder engagement skills.
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
About the Company
Build your career at Barloworld Equipment, the sole dealer for Cat® earthmoving machines and related mining and construction equipment in southern Africa.
EMPOWERMENT & TRANSFORMATION
Barloworld Limited announced its broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) transaction in 2008. The transaction included shareholdings for employees, community service groups, an education trust and strategic black partners. This translated into an effective 29% empowerment of Barloworld’s South African operations.
The allocation of shares to South African employees has the important spin-off of improved staff retention and loyalty, with corresponding benefits for customers.
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