Manager - Data Engineer at Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)

Specification    
Responsibilities

• Manage the Data Engineering team with responsibility of all Data Engineering functions. Provide guidance to the business on strategy, architecture and operations related to data.

Behavioural Competencies

• Communication  Strong communicator to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Building Effective Teams  Builds strongidentity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Stakeholder Management  Build strong relationships for collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Learning  Continually grow expertise of you and the team  recognising the responsibility to be a subject matter expert to the business.
• Managing Complexity  Making the complex simple.
• Cultivating Innovation  Create new and better ways for us to be successful.

Technical Competencies
It is important to have strong competency in data engineering tools. E.g.

• Python
• Spark and PySpark
• SQL
• Databricks
• Cloud (in particular Azure)
• SAS

Requirements    

Education

• Grade 12/ SAQA Accredited Equivalent  (Essential)
• 3 year degree in Information Technology / Sciences / Informatics / Applied Mathematics / Statistics / Quantitative sciences / Actuarial sciences / Data Mining / etc.  (Essential)
• Master’s Degree in Information Technology / Sciences / Informatics / Applied Mathematics / Statistics / Quantitative sciences / Actuarial sciences / Data Mining / etc.  (Advantageous)
• Completion of MOOC's (e.g. Coursera, Udacity, Azure, etc.) (Advantageous)

Experience

• General Experience: 8 or more years working experience within an analytical, data science or computer science environment  (Essential)
• Management Experience: 5 or more years management experience  (Essential)

Job Closing Date: 16th, March 2022