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Senior Data Solutions Engineer - Johannesburg

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
DELIVERY
  • Wrangling (big) data from multiple sources into a reliable asset that is aimed at evolution instead of maintaining a status quo
  • Working together with our best-of-breed Solution Architects to design and implement state-of-the-art cloud, hybrid and on-prem solutions
  • Designing and implementing the best possible data pipelines for each data source and data store, as well as delivering impactful advanced analytics using ML, AI, cognitive services, and data science
  • Working along the full spectrum of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics
  • Familiarising yourself with ML algorithms and AI approaches like clustering, regression, classification, speech recognition, OpenAI, LLMs, vision, search, and translator
  • Understanding DataOps and MLOps approaches to ensure our solutions will continuously be deployed in short delivery cycles with maximum business impact and the highest quality standards possible
  • Ensuring data lineage and all metadata is maintained effectively
  • Designing and developing the sexiest possible dashboards for business
  • Using your combination of technical and data analytics expertise to improve existing or proposed business innovations

PEOPLE
  • Working with multi-skilled teams that contain experts from neighboring crafts like Software Engineering, User Experience and Quality Assurance
  • Demonstrating maturity and soft skills like time management and motivation
  • Influencing change within your team
  • Building relationships and collaborating within your team
  • Working with teams to solve complex business problems, and make an impact, while pushing yourself and others to become more
  • Coordinating with teams to meet quality standards and timelines
  • Mentoring and growing others
  • Holding others accountable to a standard of excellence
  • Galvanising team members

CUSTOMER
  • Being pragmatic in making the best technological choices for the customers needs
  • Identify opportunities for service improvements and strategic alignment
  • Providing insights to business owners to validate their ideas and guide them to make the most informed decisions possible with the most desirable outcome
  • Being prudent when it comes to data governance. We want to ensure that our customers can fully trust the data assets that we build out for them
  • Flexing your story-telling muscle when assembling the presentation layer for business owners

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU
  • A bachelors degree in IT, Engineering or other Sciences
  • Minimum 6 years of experience working as a data solutions engineer within an enterprise environment
  • Experience working in a delivery team together with other disciplines to deliver a product
  • Strong ability to model and analyse data
  • Solid understanding of data engineering methodologies
  • Good understanding of visualisation best practices
  • A desire to design and implement modern advanced analytics solutions and modern data warehousing solutions
  • Strong attention to detail but viewed from a bigger picture perspective
  • To collaborate and bring your unique contributions to a team environment
  • An ambition to continually improve your skills, embrace challenges and be driven by excellence

WHAT YOU WILL GET FROM US
  • A competitive package, twice yearly salary increases and guaranteed bonuses
  • Medical aid, provident fund and insurance benefits with competitively low premiums
  • Access to our employee wellness programme, with professional support resources for all aspects of wellness
  • Inclusion in our Entelect Rewards programme, where youll receive rewards for attending training events, social functions or for doing a good job
  • Commission incentives for successful business development leads and employee referrals
  • Hands-on support from leadership
  • Exposure to popular enterprise technologies and large-scale projects
  • Exposure to Entelects in-house continuous development programmes, offering training in everything from leadership to deep technical skills
  • Continuous feedback and biannual performance reviews

THE TECH STACKS WE USE
  • Cloud environments: Azure, AWS, Google
  • Front-end tech: Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Amazon Quicksight, Google Data Studio, Grafana
  • Languages: SQL, Python, Scala
  • Data processing: Azure Data Factory, Amazon Glue, Apache Airflow, Databricks, Spark SQL
  • Relational databases: MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Azure SQL, Amazon RDS
  • NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB, Neo4j
  • Streaming: Azure Stream Analytics, Kafka, Databricks streaming, Spark streaming, Google Dataflow, Amazon Kinesis
  • ML Platforms: Azure Machine Learning, Databricks ML, Amazon Sagemaker, Dataiku
  • AI: Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, AWS Cognitive Services, Google Cognitive Services
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