Data Engineer wanted immediately: APPLY HERE
Cape Town, Western Cape
Permanent
Job Function:
Software Engineering and Data Engineering at a complex level in accordance with specifications and agreed timescales.
Responsibilities:
Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building into an innovative industry leader.
Providing support on issues or bugs related to data ingestion pipelines
Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
Job Requirements:
Education Required:
Matric / Grade 12 essential
3-year Degree/diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics
Experience Required:
2- 5 years as a Data Engineer
Minimum 3-5 years of relevant work experience
Proven working experience in building and managing applications to process large amounts of data in a Hadoop ecosystem;
Proven working experience with performance tuning applications on Hadoop and configuring Hadoop systems to maximize performance;
Experience building systems to perform real-time data processing using Spark Streaming or Storm would be an advantage;
Experience contributing to the development life-cycle for agile software development & act as SPOC to the Support Team
Essential Competencies:
Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail
Ability to deliver technical presentations competently
Must be commercially aware, able to identify & effectively communicate commercial opportunities
Able to produce and deliver relevant and effective training as required and necessary both into support staff and customers where relevant
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; good team player; highly motivated self-starter; good relationship builder with strong diplomacy skills
Must aspire to a culture of service excellence, always putting the customer, our people and our business at the center of everything they do
Advantageous Competencies:
Experience in the Telecoms Industry
Additional Requirements:
Coach peers
Drive department operational excellence
Customer centricity
Ensure that Altron BSI culture, processes and procedures are adhered to by all employees
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Source: Indeed
