Graduate Intern: Data Engineer (Analytics) at PPS

About the Job

Job Advert Summary

Start your career with PPS in 2024!

• Are you eternally curious and eager to learn and grow your capabilities? Our 12-month graduate program offers an opportunity to kickstart a career in the industry offering a comprehensive learning experience to support your developmental goals. We are searching for graduates who have a passion for delivering great client and beneficiary experiences.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams.
• The Data engineer will also build and automate solutions (dashboards) to provide actionable insights into customer management, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• B.Sc in IT (Data Engineering) or similar

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of relevant database and query solutions, applications and tools. SQL proficiency as well as working familiarity with a visualisation engines (Power BI)
• Knowledge and understanding of the best practices of the financial services / graduate professional client market
• Knowledge of information management practices including information lifecycle management, data modelling, master data management and carrying out business audits and requirements gathering.
• Knowledge and appreciation of the need for consistency in data management and governance.

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the Analytics Data Warehouse and Data Pipeline environments. Work with teams to automate and audit data flows to ensure clean and available data
• Data governance (quality, accessibility, ownership and security). Engaging with stakeholders to obtain an understanding of their data practices to contract, manage and meet expectations.
• Identifying opportunities to influence the improvement or enhancement of business processes and methodologies by researching and recommending improvement initiatives and effective ways to operate and add value to PPS
• Designing and implementing data strategies and systems, through collaboration with the IT and Business teams, to create and maintain the data architecture that will drive various initiatives across the organisation
• Work with IT to source and load a wide range of data across our business into the data lake so that it can be used by analysts and developers to develop data solutions for the business
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader