Data Engineer

SUMMARY:
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly analytical person with a knack for data analysis.

POSITION INFO:

Preferred Qualifications & Experience:

Tertiary degree in BSc Computer Science, B.IT or Informatics related degrees, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Actuarial Science or an Engineering degree.

The position involving manipulation, modelling and being responsible for the understanding of inter-dependencies between various data sources and business processes involving data flow.

The Data Engineer will also be involved in designing and building data management solutions.

There will also be elements of integrating with data science tools allowing business users to visualise their data.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Construct end to end data service solutions

Liaise and Interface with clients in a support role, providing 2nd Tier support and enhancement services.

Understand and manage the client’s data requirements, the data being specific to the financial markets.

Contribute towards a team that develops, constructs, tests and maintains architectures (such as data bases and large-scale processing systems)

Ensure data architecture will support the requirements of the client’s business.

Employ a variety of languages and tools (e.g. scripting languages) to marry systems together.

Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.

Employ sophisticated analytics and statistical methods to prepare data for use in prescriptive modelling.

Automate work by using process flow tools.

Provide feedback to the Development team regarding new functionality and issue logging.

Creation of user interfaces allowing users to upload their own data Technical Skills / Expertise

Data analysis, modelling and surfacing

Data cleaning / Integrity checking

Experience of creating reports using Excel or equivalent

SQL, SSIS, database scripting (stored procedures, user defined functions, queries, triggers)

Iterative testing including debugging and refactoring

Constructing data queries by combining multiple data sources

Present information using data visualization techniques (such as QlikView, PowerBI and Tableau)

Experience of consuming APIs (advantageous)

Some experience in a programming language (advantageous)

Any sort of ETL or Data Warehousing knowledge (advantageous)

Statistical languages (such as R and Matlab) (advantageous)

The candidate will also need to have the following attributes:

A passion to learn and extend knowledge outside of the work sphere

Good at problem solving

The ability to self-manage and self-motivate

The ability to communicate clearly with clients and the team

Be a Team player

Be adaptable

Be able to efficiently and effectively plan and structure tasks

Execute assignments against deadlines

Thrive in an agile environment Industry Experience

Information and technology services

Asset management and financial services (distinct advantage)