Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer

2 Hours ago • 1-3 Years • Business Analysis

Job Summary

Job Description

Kuda is seeking a Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer to build and maintain scalable ELT pipelines using tools like Airbyte, Cloud Functions, and BigQuery. The role involves warehouse and modeling, designing Dataform models with Kimball & data-vault principles, and optimizing BigQuery performance. Responsibilities include developing LookML explores, views, and access grants, enforcing PII controls, and contributing to Git-based code reviews and CI/CD pipelines. The BI Engineer will also guide BI Analysts and Interns on SQL best practices and conduct enablement sessions for business users on data literacy and Looker usage.
Must have:
  • 1-3 years building BI/data-warehouse solutions in cloud environments (GCP preferred)
  • Expert SQL and data-modelling techniques
  • Hands-on experience with dbt/Dataform, Looker/LookML, and a scheduler (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster)
  • Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and code-review workflows
  • Clear communicator, translating technical decisions to business impact
Good to have:
  • Comfortable navigating data privacy, PCI-DSS or similar regulatory requirements
Perks:
  • Great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
  • Pension
  • Career Development & growth
  • Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
  • Group life insurance
  • Medical insurance
  • Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
  • Perkbox
  • Goalr - employee wellness app
  • Award winning L&D training

Job Details

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet.
We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.
We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and instant access to credit through digital devices.
We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

Roles and responsibilities

  • Build & maintain scalable ELT pipelines (Airbyte, Cloud Functions, BigQuery)
  • Warehouse and Modelling. Design clean, test-driven Dataform models using Kimball & data-vault principles.
  • Optimize BigQuery performance.
  • Semantic Layer and Visualization.
  • Develop LookML explores, views, and access grants that balance self-service with governance.
  • Enforce PII controls, RBAC policies, and auditing of sensitive views.
  • Contribute to model/catalog naming standards and documentation SOPs.
  • Contribute to Git-based code reviews, automated testing, and deployment pipelines for Dataform and Looker.
  • Guide BI Analysts and Interns on SQL best practices and dashboard performance tuning.
  • Run enablement sessions for business users on data literacy and Looker usage.

Requirements

  • 1‑3 years building and supporting BI/data‑warehouse solutions in cloud environments (GCP preferred).
  • Expert SQL; solid grasp of data‑modelling techniques and slowly changing dimensions.
  • Hands-on experience with dbt (or Dataform), Looker/LookML, and a scheduler (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
  • Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD, and code‑review workflows.
  • Comfortable navigating data privacy, PCI‑DSS or similar regulatory requirements.
  • Clear communicator who can translate technical decisions into business impact.

Benefits

Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including, but not limited to:

💜A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team

👴Pension

📈Career Development & growth

😁Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays

🎁Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)

💯Group life insurance

💖Medical insurance

🎁Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)

✅ Perkbox

🏃‍♀️Goalr - employee wellness app

🥇Award winning L&D training

💒 We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule

Kuda is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.

We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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About The Company

A few years ago, a small team of people determined to transform banking launched a savings app for Nigerians. That app was the first step toward Kuda. Kuda is a full-service digital bank. Our mission is to make banking accessible, affordable and rewarding for all Africans. Kuda is free of ridiculous banking charges and great at helping customers budget, spend smartly and save more. We raised the largest seed round recorded in Africa, and completed Series B funding round in 2021, led by some of the world's most respected institutional investors.

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