Senior Data Engineer at Derivco

• As a Data Engineer, you will be tasked to simplify access to the services and resources, governing and maintaining a Data Lake platform as well as designing and implementing data solutions that collect, process, store and transform raw, unstructured data into formats that can be consumed by downstream teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of an agile data engineering team
• Ensure that data systems meet the company’s regulatory commitments, and that data is reliable and efficient
• Support best business capabilities for high performance database solutioning.
• Actively participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment by contribution and participation in the relevant Data Governance Frameworks
• Partner with Technology, Business and other stakeholders to ensure that database structures, programmes and applications meet business delivery requirements.
• Monitor adherence to processes which support the prescribed data architectural frameworks and ensure development/delivery teams align to the required standards and methodologies

Design and implement scalable end-to-end database solutions including:

• addressing issues of data migration i.e. validation, clean-up and mapping and consistently apply data dictionaries
• data cleanse using databricks
• component design and development
• identification and resolution of production and application development constraints
• integration of new technologies and software into the existing landscape
• development data set processes for data modelling, mining and production
• optimal utilization of big data
• documentation management and disaster recovery

Key Skills

In depth knowledge and understanding of:

• Azure Databricks
• Data governance and data management frameworks
• BI and Warehouse design
• Movement of data into the Cloud using the following tools Apache Kafka, Storm, Flume for ingesting data or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• Operating with real-time streams, data warehouse queries, JSON, CSV, raw data
• Scripting Data Pipelines for scheduled movement of data
• Designing and developing ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines Experience working with Azure DevOps
• Data visualization including PowerBI / Tableau
• Exploratory Data Analysis - EDA

Qualifications

• Relevant 3-year tertiary qualification BSC In Computer Science / Information Systems
• 4+ Years Senior Data Engineering experience

Additional Requirements

• SQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• NoSQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Python (PySpark)
• C# , Json- calling APIs
• PowerShell
• Apache Spark
• Kafka
• Scala
• Splunk
• Elk Stack
• Data Modelling
• Data warehousing solutions
• Data pipelines
• Data Cleansing
• Terraform