Senior Professional Officer Data Engineering at City of Cape Town

Requirements

•  A relevant tertiary qualification (honours or four-year degree), preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Information Technology or Information Systems
•  Five (5) to eight (8) years’ relevant experience.

Key Performance Areas

•  Analyse and translate data into valuable insight to inform decision making
•  Integrate and separate data feeds in order to map, produce, transform and test new data products
•  Develop data services to meet user needs
•  Produce data models and understand where to use different types of data models
•  Design and maintain appropriate metadata repositories to enable understanding of data assets
•  Design, write and iterate code from prototype to production ready
•  Design and manage the shared data science infrastructure
•  Implement product-focused testing using appropriate tools and techniques within testing regulations
•  Develop data engineering knowledge while sharing data engineering practices across departments in industry.
•  Collaborate with technical and non-technical officials on projects
•  Ensure appropriate and clear communication with various audiences
•  Recognise and explore innovative opportunities with the intent of proactively improving the data products and the data engineering domain
•  Log, analyse and manage data related problems in order to identify and implement appropriate solutions
•  Ensure accuracy and compliance with the relevant requirements of data engineering standards
•  Manage and monitor internal stakeholder relationships to align on priorities, scope and timelines of requested products.