Data & AI Solutions Specialist
Sabenza IT & Recruitment · Cape Town
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Start free — we apply for you →To design, build and enable effective data, analytics, and AI solutions by understanding data environments, 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.