Analytics Engineer III, Marketing & Product
Salary
Not disclosed
Job Type
full time
Posted
about 1 hour ago
Closing date
10 Aug 2026
Job Description
At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission – to make learning limitless– and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class higher education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading online learning platform, 2U powers thousands of higher education offerings – from free courses to full degrees. Together with our college, university, and corporate partners, we are helping accelerate careers and transform lives.
Key Responsibilities
- Cleanse and verify data integrity, enhancing data sources when required
- Exhibit best coding practices, adeptness in pipeline builds, and proficiency in transformation tools
- Analyse data to deliver data-driven insights using proven data mining techniques.
- Visualise data insights, communicate findings, and engage in data engineering tasks to optimise data pipelines and enhance analytical capabilities
- Collaborate with other analysts and stakeholders to execute projects
- Leverage business knowledge to enhance business performance
- Help guide business when making technical decisions
- Effectively leverage knowledge, expertise and experience to lead and deliver projects
- Effectively support and mentor analysts
- Perform research and constantly stays on top of the industry’s trends
- Engage and proactively seek opportunities for improvement through ongoing learning
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, business intelligence, or similar technical fields.
- Bachelor’s degree is required, with a concentration in a mathematical or analytical field preferred (i.e.: Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science)
- Skilled in data analysis, data engineering and business intelligence
- Advanced understanding of SQL, efficiently & effectively applies best coding practices and demonstrates ability to upskill/assist others
- Advanced understanding of Python, efficiently & effectively apply best coding principles and demonstrates ability to upskill/assist others
- Advanced understanding of DBT and demonstrates proficiency in building data pipelines while assisting in upskilling/assisting others
- Skilled understanding of version control; efficiently create pull requests, collaborate, debug/track issues, document and host code
- Independently develop complex data models
- Experience with a reporting tool, such as Tableau
About the employer
2U / GetSmarter
2U / GetSmarter is a hiring organisation operating in Cape Town, South Africa within the education sector. They are currently recruiting for the Analytics Engineer III, Marketing & Product role advertised on this page. Visit the official application link for more about the company, its culture and the team you would be joining.
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