Job Description

Job Vacancy: Data Engineer

Our client is a leading gas company in the African region, they are seeking to have on board a competent Data Engineer to support their expansion strategy and maintain efficient and effective services for their clients.

The job profile is expected to build and maintain data pipelines that will process and clean data from internal and ex Build, own, and maintain systems to extract and present business data.

Reports to: Analytics Lead

Job Location: Nairobi

Overall Objective:

• Review system design documents and contribute to implementation decisions.


• Investigate internal and external data sources that will contribute to customer service and decision making.


• Assist the Analytics Lead to work with colleagues across the business to understand their data needs.


• Architecting data pipelines to move data from different sources and centralize it in our data lake for analytics.


• Maintaining the data pipelines.


• Ensuring data integrity in source and destination platforms.


• Implement monitoring tools to detect issues and measure performance of the data pipelines


• Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies.


• Establish, maintain, and monitor information security controls over data pipelines and data lake.


• Maintain good knowledge of data processing and analytics technologies and make recommendations to continually improve our analytics stack ternal sources, store that data in our data lake and make available for analytics services.

Minimum Requirements

• 2+ years of data analysis or data science


• Working experience of at least 2 years in the field


• AWS qualifications an advantage


• Degree in Computer Science, mathematics or similar


• Cloud environments, AWS as strong preference.


• AWS Glue, Python, Pyspark, RDS, Lambda, S3, Athena, Quicksight


• ETL, ELT, data migration and cleansing processes


• Data Lakes, data analytics and working with large data sets.


• Relational databases, e.g MySQL

Competences

• The ability to work independently yet seek advice where required


• Committed to delivering excellence for customers


• Good level of SQL


• Awareness of good practice in information security and data privacy


• Proficient in Agile development process


• Ability to work in a distributed team

How to Apply

Qualified and interested applicants should send their detailed CV, indicating their current and expected salaries to balteumconsultants@gmail.com not later than 5pm on 18th November 2021.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

“Our client embraces equal opportunity for all”

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