Data Engineer - Johannesburg
Responsibilities
- Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
- Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers expectations through proactive, innovative, and appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast end effectively.
- Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SMEs, project
managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements and being able to present and sell concepts to clients.
- Produce program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and
resolving queries.
- Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Support
development environments. Responsible for coding standards and peer reviews.
- Comply, understand, and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and
audit requirements during programming execution.
- Assess, identify, and mitigate potential risks within the IT programming environment by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definition) to ensure operational performance.
- Produce technical specifications and architecture that is in accordance to agreed standards. Design, code, test and debug
to obtain a robust solution with supporting documentation.
- Minimize system downtime through pro-active identification of potential issues and ensure minimization of recurring problems by managing defects and performing code reviews.
- Monitor systems post change and pro-actively do performance analysis to ensure there is no system failure due to capacity.
- Maintain maximum system availability by ensuring that incidents are recorded for future reference and adequate root cause analysis is done to eliminate the risk of a recurrence.
- Manage own development to increase own competencies and develop technical and business skills.
- Proactively engage with business units and colleagues to understand underlying needs and opportunities and identify Information Technology (IT) innovative solutions in a timely manner.
- Supervises the work of other developers. Provides technical assistance to fellow developers and other Information Technology (IT) team members.
Additional Requirements
- Min of 5-8 years experience in data engineering
- Strong back end and front-end development skills
- Strong SQL skills, especially on MSSQL
- Experience in:
o Terradata
o PowerBI
o Hive
o Ab Initio (a bonus)
o Data APIs
- Will be required to build data warehouse components on Terradata warehouse (3NF).
- Will be required to present data on dashboards and visualisations on PowerBI.
- Will have to comply with all data governance, like documenting data definitions and business glossaries.
- Getting data models approved before use.
- Experience with workflow tools like TIBCO AMX / Camundo an advantage
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum: B.Comm, B.Eng, BSC Eng, BSC Informatics or
- related degree.
- 8+ yrs experience in data engineering.
- Familiar with one or more programming languages as appropriate for the specific requirements of the department related to the field.
- System Design experience advantageous. Apply Now
- Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
- Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers expectations through proactive, innovative, and appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast end effectively.
- Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SMEs, project
managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements and being able to present and sell concepts to clients.
- Produce program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and
resolving queries.
- Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Support
development environments. Responsible for coding standards and peer reviews.
- Comply, understand, and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and
audit requirements during programming execution.
- Assess, identify, and mitigate potential risks within the IT programming environment by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definition) to ensure operational performance.
- Produce technical specifications and architecture that is in accordance to agreed standards. Design, code, test and debug
to obtain a robust solution with supporting documentation.
- Minimize system downtime through pro-active identification of potential issues and ensure minimization of recurring problems by managing defects and performing code reviews.
- Monitor systems post change and pro-actively do performance analysis to ensure there is no system failure due to capacity.
- Maintain maximum system availability by ensuring that incidents are recorded for future reference and adequate root cause analysis is done to eliminate the risk of a recurrence.
- Manage own development to increase own competencies and develop technical and business skills.
- Proactively engage with business units and colleagues to understand underlying needs and opportunities and identify Information Technology (IT) innovative solutions in a timely manner.
- Supervises the work of other developers. Provides technical assistance to fellow developers and other Information Technology (IT) team members.
Additional Requirements
- Min of 5-8 years experience in data engineering
- Strong back end and front-end development skills
- Strong SQL skills, especially on MSSQL
- Experience in:
o Terradata
o PowerBI
o Hive
o Ab Initio (a bonus)
o Data APIs
- Will be required to build data warehouse components on Terradata warehouse (3NF).
- Will be required to present data on dashboards and visualisations on PowerBI.
- Will have to comply with all data governance, like documenting data definitions and business glossaries.
- Getting data models approved before use.
- Experience with workflow tools like TIBCO AMX / Camundo an advantage
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum: B.Comm, B.Eng, BSC Eng, BSC Informatics or
- related degree.
- 8+ yrs experience in data engineering.
- Familiar with one or more programming languages as appropriate for the specific requirements of the department related to the field.
- System Design experience advantageous. Apply Now
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