Data Engineer (CH587b)

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POSITION INFO:

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Our client a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Data Engineer to join their team in Cape Town.

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About the company and position:

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

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This position reports to the Data Systems Director

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining data architectures.
• Preparing data for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive modeling
• Automating repetitive tasks and manual processes related with the data usage
• Optimizing data delivery
• Designing, developing, and testing large stream data pipelines to ingest, aggregate, clean, and distribute data models ready for analysis
• Ensuring the highest standard in data integrity
• Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Collaborating with other engineers, ML experts, analysts, and stakeholders to produce the most efficient and valuable solutions
• Contributing to our data democratisation and literacy vision by making accessible and easy-to-use data products and tools
• Implementing features, technology, and processes that move us towards industry best practices, improving on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security
• Operations and ownership of systems in production, responding to incidents

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Attributes required:

• Works well with people and is passionate about helping people be their best
• Is a team player, an active listener, mentor, and able to communicate well
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making, with the ability to work under pressure
• Is passionate about technology, systems and data
• Is curious, always learning, and keeping up to date with the industry
• Has a deep understanding of data pipelining, streaming, and Big Data technologies, methods, patterns, and techniques.
• Has a solid grasp on data modeling, schema design, data warehouse, and data lake design and implementation
• Can troubleshoot complex database operations and performance issues
• Can automate tasks using shell scripting or writing small applications

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Qualifications & Experience:

• Comp-sci Degree or 3 years relevant industry experience
• Experience with open source relational database systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of data modeling and schema design
• A thorough understanding of database and data warehousing principles (e.g. OLAP, Data Marts, Star Schema, Snowflake, etc)
• Write code (we use Java and Python)
• Familiar with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis, Circle CI, etc
• Experience with Kafka, PubSub, or other event-based systems
• Experience with stream data pipeline frameworks or solutions such as Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Storm, Databricks, etc.
• Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, lambda/kappa architectures
• Experience working in cloud environments and with containerisation frameworks, tools and platforms (e.g Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, etc).

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The Environment:

• Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of the company being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

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