Senior Data Engineer

We currently have numerous vacancies for Data Engineers skilled in tools such as the Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), Power BI, AWS, Azure, DataStage, SAS etc.

Duties:

• Design, develop, test and deploy ETL for ODS and data mart projects, as well as application and management reports.
• Provide technical support, troubleshooting and upgrade setup or support on ETL and database related issues.
• Research and evaluate alternative IT solutions to make appropriate recommendations to meet the business needs for management information.
• Perform root cause analysis, performance monitoring and application related issues.
• Review IT work products from the team members for completeness and quality.
• Accurately translate business requirement to technical documentation and test case or results.
• Analyse and map data from source systems to target operational data stores and data marts.
• Maintain and provide application support in production.
• Code or folder migration from one environment to another as part of release management.
• Participation in all aspects of quality assurance.
• Active participation in systems integration and user acceptance testing.

Required Skills:

• Mandatory: strong SQL
• Preferably: MS Azure
• Strong modular system design skills.
• Conventional and data warehouse modeling skills are required, in order to understand the various data models and to define the mappings between them.
• System analysis and design skills are necessary to design and document the data extractions and transformations.
• Expert knowledge of the capabilities of the ETL tools being used, to know what their capabilities and shortcomings are – in order to exploit or avoid those aspects in the ETL program designs.
• Good organisation, planning and basic management skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Decision making and problem solving skills.

Required Qualifications / Training:

• Relevant data warehouse and BI solution training is essential.
• B.Sc. or related degree is advantageous.
• 5+ years programming experience.