Data Engineer

Recruiter:

Glasshouse Recruiting

Job Ref:

CPT000119/Sam

Date posted:

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Location:

Capetown, South Africa

SUMMARY:

Purpose of the role:

Exciting opportunity for a highly analytical person with a knack for data analysis

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

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

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.

Please forward CVs to sam@------

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