Our client in Pretoria is recruiting for AWS Data Engineer (Chief Expert) to join their team. Data Engineers are responsible for building and maintaining Big Data Pipelines using client's Data Platforms. Data Engineers are custodians of data and must ensure that data is shared in line with the information classification requirements on a need-to-know basis. Demonstrate Team Leadership skills and excellent Stakeholder Engagement. Support the Sub Product Owner and Team Leads on over-arching topics. Should be able to Mentor junior engineers. Demonstrate solution architect expertise. Be able to execute any Department related task as and when required by the Delivery Manager. Qualifications/Experience: Relevant IT / Business / Engineering Degree Candidates with one or more of the certifications are preferred: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified SysOps Associate, AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Architect Associate, AWS Certified Architect Professional, Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate. Essential Skills Requirements: Above average experience/understanding (in order of importance): Technical Skills / Technology: Terraform Python 3x SQL - Oracle/PostgreSQL Py Spark Boto3 ETL Docker Linux / Unix Big Data PowerShell / Bash Cloud Data Hub (CDH) CDEC Blueprint Basic experience/understanding of AWS Components (in order of importance): Glue CloudWatch SNS Athena S3 Kinesis Streams (Kinesis, Kinesis Firehose) Lambda DynamoDB Step Function Param Store Secrets Manager Code Build/Pipeline CloudFormation Business Intelligence (BI) Experience Technical data modelling and schema design (“not drag and drop”) Kafka AWS EMR Redshift Experience in working with Enterprise Collaboration tools such as Confluence, JIRA etc. Experience developing technical documentation and artefacts. Knowledge of data formats such as Parquet, AVRO, JSON, XML, CSV etc. Experience working with Data Quality Tools such as Great Expectations. Experience developing and working with REST API's is a bonus. Basic experience in Networking and troubleshooting network issues. Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter. Advantageous Skills Requirements: Demonstrate expertise in data modelling Oracle SQL. Exceptional analytical skills analysing large and complex data sets. Perform thorough testing and data validation to ensure the accuracy of data transformations. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with precise documentation. Self-driven team player with ability to work independently and multi-task. Experience building data pipeline using AWS Glue or Data Pipeline, or similar platforms. Familiar with data store such as AWS S3, and AWS RDS or DynamoDB. Experience and solid understanding of various software design patterns. Experience preparing specifications from which programs will be written, designed, coded, tested and debugged. Strong organisational skills. Salary Market Related
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