Digitalisation Lead

Company Profile: candi is a dedicated rooftop solar company for businesses across Asia and Africa. We bring together international capital, through our Swiss-based platform, and local expertise in order to provide a unique offering to this unserved sector. In doing so, candi aims to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets. www.candi.solar

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Digitalisation Lead, who will help candi to lead the revolution of solar. Given that candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking.

Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following responsibilities across candi’s global operations:

• Leading candi’s digitalisation strategy
• Consulting with the global and local divisional leads regarding digitalisation requirements
• Managing relationships and outsourced processes with external IT consultancies
• Building a core digitalisation team and providing training and development opportunities in order to maximise team members’ potentials and growth
• Adopting a servant-leader approach and inspiring and motivating team members to achieve candi and team goals
• Support Business Intelligence function with the creation of KPI dashboards (SQL queries)
• Creating and maintaining ETL processes and performing data migrations
• Implementing Lambda functions that interact with IOT devices on our solar sites
• Extending and maintaining an existing Web Application (Front-End and Back-End) - ensuring the implemented code is adjusted to specific requirements.
• Maintaining and developing the company’s CRM (Salesforce) and the underlying data model
• Occasional travel to India / Zurich

Location: Cape Town or Johannesburg/PTA, with flexibility for frequent remote working.

Hours: Full time. Very experienced candidates will be considered for a part-time position.

Job Requirements:

• At least three years of experience building and leading a team of engineers in a scrum environment
• Comfortable working with and supporting various divisions (with different levels of technical expertise) to identify Digitalisation opportunities and needs
• A creative problem solver and a critical thinker, who is able to make decisive decisions
• Good understanding of and experience in CRM technologies - experience with Salesforce advantageous
• Experience with SQL-like Database technologies (PSQL, MySQL, SQLite, etc.)
• Experience in some or all of the following technologies:
  • Backend: Python, Java, etc.
  • Frontend: TypeScript, NextJS, Express, React, Bootstrap
  • Programming patterns: MVC, Factory, etc.
• Good Understanding and Experience in state of the art Cloud technologies and infrastructure: AWS/GCP, EC2/Compute Engine, SQS/PubSub, Lambda/Functions, CICD, Amplify, etc.
• Experience working with ETL processes and REST APIs
• Excel proficiency

Working Culture Requirements:

• You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we work as one and follow the candi principle that less is more
• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, considered a plus.
• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
• candi is an equal opportunities employer.

candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
• We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.