Senior Data Engineer – Remote – up to R1.3m per annum

SUMMARY:
Senior Data Engineer

POSITION INFO:

A Pan African firm listed on the JSE offering a wide range of affordable and comprehensive insurance and comprehensive insurance, investment and corporate solutions seeks to hire the services of a Senior Data Engineer.

You will be required to design and implement scalable and robust processes to support the data engineering capability. This role will be responsible for implementing and supporting large-scale data ecosystems across the Group.

You will use best practices in cloud engineering, data management and data storage to continue organizations drive to optimize the way that data is stored, consumed, and ultimately democratized and ultimately democratized; also collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation with use of the Data Engineering practices facilitating the improvement in the way that data is stored and consumed.

Role & Qualifications Requirements:

• Matric, with a degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or Engineering
• 5+ years of data engineering experience  
• 5+ years of experience with any data warehouse technical architectures, ETL/ELT, and reporting/analytics tools including, but not limited to, any of the following combinations (1) SSIS and SSRS, (2) SAS ETL Framework, (3) SAP ETL Framework, (4) MongoDB ETL deployments, (5) Apache Spark and Apache Hive deployments will be beneficial. Hadoop; Python, Java, PLSQL, TSQL, OSQL, C#, OpenAPI framework
• Good AWS knowledge and experience on Glue, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, AMS and Billing
• The candidate having DBA ability and knowledge across at least 2 platforms (example: TSQL, SAS, PSQL, IBM VSAM and DB2 etc.) will also be beneficial.
• Experience with designing and implementing Cloud (AWS) solutions including full use of all APIs available
• Experience with Dev/OPS architecture, implementation, and operation
• Knowledge of Engineering and Operational Excellence using standard methodologies. Best practices in software engineering, data management, data storage, data computing and distributed systems to solve business problems with data
• Experience in applying SAFe/Scrum/Kanban methodologies
• Knowledge and understanding of business process management lifecycle which covers the design, modelling, execution, monitoring, and optimization as well as business process re-engineering
• Strong problem-solving skills: The ability to exercise judgment in solving technical, operational, and organizational challenges, to identify issues proactively, to present solutions and options leading to resolution
• Expert programming, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills, using the latest popular programming languages such as python, scala, java and suite of Microsoft languages C# and F# preferable

Reference Number for this position is NN52605 which is a permanent position that is remote offering a cost to company salary of up to R1.3m per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nigel on <--------Please upload your CV here-------- or call him on<--------Please upload your CV here-------- to discuss this and other opportunities.

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