Data Analytics Engineer at Absa

The CIB Data Analytics Team provides insights and quantitative analytics to ABSA’s Corporate and Investment Banking business. This Data Analytics team is responsible for the maintenance and development of a Data Analytics Platform with related components, tools and interfaces to other parts of the system landscape. The Data Analytics Engineer will be responsible for the maintenance and development of a Data Analytics Platform with related components, tools and interfaces to other parts of the system landscape and the development of Data Pipelines, cleaning and transforming data to be persisted (relational, NoSQL, Hadoop, etc) and exposed/streamed to downstream consumers (Analytics Platforms, Machine Learning models, etc). The successful candidate will have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in building data management systems within an Investment Banking/Global Markets environment. They must have the ability to use data analytics to solution. Applied knowledge of standard Data Management Technology, e.g, Relational, NoSQL as well as Big Data Technologies such as the Hadoop ecosystem, Kafka, Storm, Spark, ElasticSearch and of the Software Development Lifecycle as well as Software and Systems Architecture is critical