Data Engineer

SUMMARY:

Purpose of the role:

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities:

• The configuration and implementation at various clients
• Understand the business requirements of the company’s clients, the focus being the research and investment process of these Asset Managers
• Construct end to end data service solutions
• Liaise and interface with clients in a support role, providing 2^nd 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 databases 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, efficiently 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

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

• Tertiary Degree in BSc Computer Science, B.IT or Informatics related degrees, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Actuarial Science or an Engineering Degree
• Understanding and working experience in data integration and transformation
• Asset Management and Financial Services (distinct advantage)

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)

Salary negotiable depending on experience.

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