Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities:
There are two main duties:

• Develop & maintain data pipelines in support of downstream data delivery.
• Perform analysis on organisational data & create reports to communicate the results.

Other potential duties include, but are not limited to:

• Communicate and advocate for a data-driven mindset in the larger organisational community, especially the IT department.
• Investigate and evaluate emerging technologies like robotic process automation (RPA), new AWS services, new data management approaches, machine learning advancements, etc.
• Liaise with individuals in the organisation in support of all the above duties.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant IT degree, Diploma or certification
• 10 years plus experience as a Data Engineer
• Good programming skills in both Python and SQL.
• Good database design skills and an understanding of data warehousing techniques and approaches.
• An understanding of and ability to access data from sources such as: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Amazon S3
• Windows and Linux file systems (Excel, delimited files, etc.), HTTP APIs
• SFTP sites
• An ability to engineer cloud-first solutions in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
• An interest in machine learning and advanced analytics, and the development of data pipelines in
• support thereof.
• An understanding of the software development process, with proficiency in Git for version control and build & deployment pipelines in GitLab.
• An ability to create reports and BI dashboards to communicate data & analysis results, using a variety of technologies, which might include: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Excel