Junior Data Engineer
Location: | Johannesburg |
Remote work: | Some remote work allowed |
Type: | Permanent |
Reference: | #NG59214 |
Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
An upbeat company that helps clients understand the rich data collected from the traditional retail market in South Africa and Africa broadly are in the market for a
junior data engineer. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical and mathematical background to help drive value from the company’s data, this person will wear many hats in the role with a huge focus on building
Python, ETL processes and writing superb
SQL. In addition, the candidate will be responsible for maintaining and building out the reporting
DB.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the development team, data analysts and BI analysts to help build and maintain data flows that supports the reporting requirements.
- Use agile software development processes to make iterative improvements to the back-end systems
- Model front-end and back-end data sources to help draw a more comprehensive picture of user flows throughout the system and to enable powerful data analysis.
- Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data.
- Develop models that can be used to make predictions and answer questions.
- Work with data to solve business problems, building and maintaining the infrastructure.
- Help streamline data science and analytics workflows by improving data delivery and quality to internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related analytical discipline required.
- Three or more years of experience with Python, SQL, and data visualization/exploration tools (Power BI, Tableau etc).
- Familiarity with common python based ETL tools such as PySpark or Apache Airflow.
- Familiarity with Kimball and Inmon data warehousing approaches.
- Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem, specifically Redshift, RDS & EC2.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL preferred.
- Ability to work on concurrent projects.
- Experience in building or maintaining ETL processes.
- Experience as a data analyst / BI analyst.
- Database admin experience a bonus.
The Reference Number for this position is NG59214 which is a Permanent Hybrid position based in Johannesburg offering a salary of R380,000 to R480,000 cost to company per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at
az.oc.egrem-e@galuhtukon or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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Posted on 11 Jun 11:05, Closing date 10 Aug