Job Openings Data Engineer

About the job Data Engineer

EMPLOYMENT TYPE:

Permanent

COMPANY:

A large retail chain based in Cape Town

    LOCATION:

    Cape Town (Hybrid working model)

    JOB OVERVIEW:

    The primary focus of this position is to use technical skills to put software, systems, and data together in a way that extracts meaningful insights from raw data. You will need to be helpful and supportive to your team and fellow developers. You join an energetic, focused, and dynamic team.

    DESCRIPTION OF THE POSITION:

    • Interact with clients to understand requirements and business problems/needs.
    • Identify, analyze, visualize, and understand supporting data to propose solid solutions.
    • Design, develop, and build databases to power Big Data analytical systems.
    • Design data integration pipeline architecture and ensure successful creation of the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using Spark, SQL, HQL, and other technologies.
    • Create technical documentation for reference and reporting.
    • Support existing solutions within GCP and Oracle.
    • Accountable for the product the team
    • Participate actively in the product team
    • Identify, analyze, visualize, and understand supporting data to propose solid solutions.
    • Create technical documentation for reference and reporting.
    • Be able to analyze specs and Data
    • Design data warehouse layers
    • Design, develop, and test product layers
    • Estimate tasks accurately
    • Develop and test pipelines into a raw data lake
    • Develop and test data warehouse layers
    • Ensure that peer reviews are done for deliverable
    • Comply with each step of the SDLC process
    • Follow all necessary documentation
    • Responsible for GCP costs and IT
    • Provides timely stats updated to the team
    • Cross- train, and mentor other team members
    • Responsible for delivery of value and quality solutions
    • Responsible for driving ticket progress
    • Log change requests
    • Log time accurately
    • Doing standby on a rotating basis

    KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

    • Data Mining
    • The natural tendency to take ownership and responsibility
    • Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, effective planning, and organizational skills
    • Detail-oriented with excellent communication skills
    • You have a can-do attitude and positive outlook on life
    • Can cope under pressure
    • Curious about analyzing problems and possible solutions
    • Strong team player
    • Self-driven learner, passionate about new technology

      QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

      • Matric
      • Tertiary qualification in IT

      EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

      • 2-3 years of Data warehouse ETL experience
      • Korn shell scripting
      • Python/Java
      • SQL 
      • Agile
      • Dimensional Modelling
      • Data Analysis
      • Experience with data visualization and visualization tools
      • Understanding and experience with version control SVN/GIT
      • Having a broad understanding of different SDLCs
      • Preferred cloud experience in AWS/AZURE/GCP

      ADVANTAGEOUS:

      • Knowledge of the retail industry

      **Please note: If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.


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