Data is one of the most valuable resources a company owns, and savvy data engineers are required to build an infrastructure to keep it organized. This role requires a significant set of technical skills, including a deep knowledge of SQL and multiple programming languages. The incumbent should have stellar communication skills as you will work across departments and determine what business leaders want to gain from the companys large datasets. Be able to work with data to solve business problems, building and maintaining the data platform to answer questions and improve processes within the SaltEB environment and work closely with the other BI teams to develop data models and pipelines for research, reporting, and machine learning. Furthermore, be an advocate for best practices and continued learning.

Data Engineering

• Work closely with business to help them understand the data in the environment and enable data insights to the business unit to drive change.
• Create and maintain functional requirements, system specifications and blueprints in support of data architecture and detailed design specifications for current and future designs.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and robust patterns for ingesting and transforming complex datasets from a multitude of sources.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining reports & dashboards used within the business.
• Supports the organisations cloud strategy and aligns to the data architecture and governance including the implementation of these data governance practices.
• Administer access management to various applications used with the data landscape.
• Create and manage data feeds to 3rd party system or enterprise applications

REPORTING

• Develop and maintain monthly and ad hoc reports as and when requested
• Build and maintain reports consumed by various stakeholders.

QUERY RESOLUTION

• Attend to queries or inquiries within the required timelines
• Aid internal and external clients or service providers where necessary

INNOVATIVE & TEAM PLAYER

• Be able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Knowledge sharing with peers.

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

• Work with various stakeholders across the organisation to understand data requirements and apply technical knowledge of data management to solve key business problems.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with business stakeholders.

TIME MANAGEMENT

• Devote the whole of your time, attention, and abilities during working hours to the discharge of your duties.
• Work concurrently on multiple projects to deliver value to business.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or equivalent
• Professional certifications (AWS , Azure)
• 2+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with designing and implementing Cloud (AWS) solutions including use of APIs available.
• Some experience with Dev/OPS architecture, implementation and operation would be advantageous.
• 2+ years of experience with Python, SQL, Java Script and data visualization/exploration tools,(Power BI, Tableau, SAP Business Objects)
• Understanding of Data modeling fundamentals & design
• Cloud based technologies (AWS, Snowflake)
• Knowledge of Engineering and Operational Excellence using standard methodologies.
• Best practices in software engineering, data management, data storage, data computing and distributed systems to solve business problems with data.

Required Knowledge:

• High level of attention to detail
• Ability to work with limited supervision
• Solutions orientated
• Personal Mastery (Learning)
• Quality in execution and outcomes
• Team player

Jnr Data Engineer position available in Gauteng, Johannesburg. This job position was posted by Salt Employee Benefits. The job has been posted as a premium ad on 2025-02-05 at 13:27:38 in the It Computer category