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Anthony Apollis
Cape Town
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Summary
Results-driven Senior BI and Data Analytics professional with 12+ years in designing and implementing enterprise analytics systems across diverse sectors. Expertise in end-to-end data pipelines and analytics platforms, alongside business analysis and stakeholder engagement. Skilled in translating strategies into actionable KPIs and dashboards that enhance decision-making. Familiar with modern analytics stacks, including Snowflake, AWS Redshift, and Apache Airflow.
Open to Remote Roles.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
DATA ENGINEER & ANALYST
On The Spot
12.2024 - Current
- Designing and maintaining data pipelines ingesting data from IoT devices, remote sensing platforms, and operational systems.
- Leveraging Python, SQL, Power BI, and SSIS to support end-to-end data engineering and analytics workflows.
- Performing data cleaning, transformation, validation, and analysis to ensure reliable and decision-ready datasets.
- Created analytics outputs and dashboards that informed decision-making for operational and planning stakeholders.
- Developed analytics and insights from large-scale agricultural datasets to enhance crop management, logistics optimisation, and operational planning.
Senior Business Intelligence, Reporting & Insights Analyst
CHEP
06.2023 - 12.2024
- Designed and developed enterprise BI and analytics solutions that enhanced regional and executive decision-making within a global logistics organisation.
- Led ETL development and data integration across multiple upstream systems into cloud-hosted analytical environments (AWS RDS).
- Built and supported high-availability dashboards and reporting products consumed at executive, regional, and operational levels.
- Partnered with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable analytics products, balancing speed, accuracy, and maintainability.
- Conducted trend, variance, and root-cause analysis to identify risks, opportunities, and performance drivers supporting prioritisation and strategic planning.
- Owned end-to-end analytics outputs, facilitating adoption, creating documentation, and fostering continuous improvement.
- Acted as BI and data SME, verifying data accuracy, modelling integrity, and alignment with governance standards.
- Tools & Platforms: Power BI, SSIS, SAP BW, PostgreSQL, T-SQL, AWS RDS
- Global logistics organisation
Digital Marketing / BI Data Analyst (Freelance)
01.2020 - 03.2023
- Delivered BI and analytics solutions that enhanced digital performance and informed customer behaviour analysis for effective decision-making.
- Designed reporting frameworks and KPI hierarchies that aligned with business and campaign objectives to facilitate performance tracking.
- Translated business questions into actionable analytical outputs that empowered non-technical stakeholders to make informed decisions.
- Provided insights to improve adoption, engagement, and performance across digital platforms.
Senior Digital Analyst & Cloud Data Engineer (Contract)
TMI Consulting
02.2022 - 09.2022
- Designed cloud-based analytical data models and ELT pipelines supporting digital, marketing, and customer analytics.
- Built automated pipelines using Talend, Google Data Fusion, dbt, and cloud-native integration tools.
- Delivered analytics on customer behaviour, campaign performance, and digital adoption, enabling optimisation initiatives.
- Defined KPIs and performance frameworks in collaboration with business, marketing, and product stakeholders, aligning objectives for performance measurement.
- Provided data-driven insights to Product Owners and BI leads, facilitating prioritisation of automation and analytics backlog items.
- Platforms: Google BigQuery, Tableau, Talend, Data Fusion, Campaign Manager, DV360
BI Business Analyst (Contract)
Corporate Renaissance Group
08.2019 - 12.2019
- Delivered dashboards and analytical reports, enhancing decision-making across healthcare, pharmaceutical, logistics, and retail sectors.
- Elicited and analysed business requirements to drive BI, reporting, and data transformation initiatives.
- Supported users through targeted training and documentation, resolving issues to ensure high solution adoption.
- Tools: Tableau, Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS
GIS Analyst
Macroplan Town & Regional Planners
09.2017 - 07.2019
- Delivered spatial analytics and geospatial intelligence to enhance land-use planning, inform environmental impact assessments, drive agricultural development, and support infrastructure projects.
- Performed spatial modelling and analysis to support regulatory submissions and strategic planning decisions.
- Designed and maintained integrated geospatial datasets combining cadastral, environmental, zoning, agricultural, and demographic data.
- Established data governance and quality practices for spatial datasets, ensuring accuracy through validation, version control, and comprehensive documentation.
SAP Master Data / Digital Analyst
Shoprite
11.2015 - 10.2016
- Established master data standards, governance rules, and compliance controls in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders, promoting alignment and accountability.
- Executed data quality analysis, validation, and reconciliation to identify issues affecting downstream reporting and operational systems, enhancing data reliability.
- Supported enterprise-scale SAP ERP environments by analyzing and governing master data domains, ensuring data integrity for products, suppliers, locations, and pricing.
BI Analyst Developer
Bytes Universal Systems
09.2014 - 08.2015
- Created and optimised SQL-based analytical queries to derive insights from large Teradata datasets.
- Utilised Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) for data extraction, transformation, and validation across enterprise systems.
- Collaborated in high-volume telecommunications analytics environments, enhancing Vodacom-related platforms.
SEO & Data Analyst
MultiChoice Internet Holdings
06.2012 - 07.2014
- Delivered dashboards and performance reports that highlighted acquisition, engagement, and content effectiveness to inform strategy.
- Analysed digital performance, website traffic, and customer behaviour, identifying trends using web analytics and SEO data sources.
- Conducted keyword and content performance analysis, driving insights that supported digital optimisation strategies.
- Translated analytical insights into actionable recommendations for marketing and content teams.
Education
Master of Management - Digital Business
University of The Witwatersrand
06-2026
Postgraduate Diploma in Management - Information Systems / Business & Systems Analysis
University of Cape Town
03-2023
Diploma - Digital Marketing
Red & Yellow
12-2017
Bachelor of Informatics -
Stellenbosch University
12-2007
Skills
- Data engineering and ETL
- SQL and T-SQL
- PostgreSQL and data modelling
- Power BI, Tableau, and Qlik
- Snowflake integration
- Apache Airflow orchestration
- Data quality and reconciliation
- Data governance and reliability
- Cloud platforms
- Business intelligence
- Analytics engineering
- Requirements gathering
- Systems analysis
- Process analysis
- Performance reporting
- Performance frameworks
- Product analytics
- Usage and adoption analysis
- Portfolio dashboards
- Stakeholder engagement
- Cross-functional collaboration
Languages
- Afrikaans
- English
Experience Years
12
Personal Information
- Citizenship: South African
Timeline
DATA ENGINEER & ANALYST
On The Spot
12.2024 - Current
Senior Business Intelligence, Reporting & Insights Analyst
CHEP
06.2023 - 12.2024
Senior Digital Analyst & Cloud Data Engineer (Contract)
TMI Consulting
02.2022 - 09.2022
Digital Marketing / BI Data Analyst (Freelance)
01.2020 - 03.2023
BI Business Analyst (Contract)
Corporate Renaissance Group
08.2019 - 12.2019
GIS Analyst
Macroplan Town & Regional Planners
09.2017 - 07.2019
SAP Master Data / Digital Analyst
Shoprite
11.2015 - 10.2016
BI Analyst Developer
Bytes Universal Systems
09.2014 - 08.2015
SEO & Data Analyst
MultiChoice Internet Holdings
06.2012 - 07.2014
Master of Management - Digital Business
University of The Witwatersrand
Postgraduate Diploma in Management - Information Systems / Business & Systems Analysis
University of Cape Town
Diploma - Digital Marketing
Red & Yellow
Bachelor of Informatics -
Stellenbosch University