Stellenbosch: Junior Data Engineer (Citrusdal) posted by Recruit-It

Summary
Our client is seeking a highly motivated Data Engineer to join their fast-growing startup company in the
agriculture industry. As a Dataw Engineer, you will play a key role in managing their data infrastructure
and creating data-driven solutions to support their business objectives. You will be part of a cross
functional team of engineers, business stakeholders, and data scientists, working together to deliver
innovative products and services.
 
Responsibilities:

• Use appropriate data science tools to solve problems and drive decision-making.
• Manage relationships with a variety of stakeholders to support the delivery of a project, ensuring that project goals and objectives are met.
• Collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders to understand project goals and interpret users’ intent.
• Build ETL pipelines to ensure efficient data processing and analysis.
• Translate data into informative reports and use rich visuals to draw out insights, supporting the business with making data-driven decisions.
• Ensure data quality and integrity and optimize data pipelines to enable efficient data analysis and processing.

 
Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Business Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing data solutions, ETL pipelines, and data warehouses.
• Experience with data science tools such as Python, R and SQL.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and draw out insights.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with
• the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Attention to detail and commitment to delivering high- quality work.
• Experience working in an agile development environment is a plus.