Latest Opportunities at takealot.com

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Work closely with stakeholders and BI Analysts to turn data into critical information and knowledge that can be used to make sound business decisions.
• Responsible for the full life-cycle development, implementation, production support, and performance tuning of the Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Marts, and Business Intelligence Reporting environments.
• Design and implement reporting and analytical solutions.
• Analyses business and functional requirements and translates these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions.
• Help to migrate the old QlikView and QlikSense models to our new Event-Driven Kappa architecture built on BigQuery, DataForm and Looker.
• Ensuring that the data pipelines and general support infrastructure continue to run and operate in the most efficient manner.
• Provide operational support, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
• Automating data extraction and report update processes.
• Data validation and integrity testing.
• Data cleansing and multidimensional data modelling.
• Optimisation of data models.

The skills we need:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality work, in a fast-paced environment
• Focus on getting the job done, but have fun doing so
• Taking ownership and displaying accountability in the work required of you
• Have an interest in e-commerce, building a brand and business
• Customer-centric

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics field or equivalent experience
• 4 - 6 years related experience
• 1 - 2 years of Python coding experience
• Minimum 2 years’ experience using a BI reporting tool (e.g. QlikView, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, etc.)
• Minimum 2 years SQL experience
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including Linux and operating systems, networking
• Experience using Looker, BigQuery and Dataform is advantageous
• OLAP and multidimensional cube design experience
• Have experience with Build Systems (Jenkins, Gitlab, Spinnaker)
• Have experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)
• High proficiency in working with large data sets and business models
• Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) is advantageous
• Experience working in Scrum and Sprint Agile methodologies is advantageous
• Retail or e-commerce industry experience beneficial

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining data architectures.
• Preparing data for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive modeling
• Automating repetitive tasks and manual processes related with the data usage
• Optimizing data delivery
• Designing, developing, and testing large stream data pipelines to ingest, aggregate, clean, and distribute data models ready for analysis
• Ensuring the highest standard in data integrity
• Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Collaborating with other engineers, ML experts, analysts, and stakeholders to produce the most efficient and valuable solutions
• Contributing to our data democratisation and literacy vision by making accessible and easy-to-use data products and tools
• Implementing features, technology, and processes that move us towards industry best practices, improving on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security
• Operations and ownership of systems in production, responding to incidents

The skills we need:

• Works well with people and is passionate about helping people be their best
• Is a team player, an active listener, mentor, and able to communicate well
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making, with the ability to work under pressure
• Is passionate about technology, systems and data
• Is curious, always learning, and keeping up to date with the industry
• Has a deep understanding of data pipelining, streaming, and Big Data technologies, methods, patterns, and techniques.
• Has a solid grasp on data modeling, schema design, data warehouse, and data lake design and implementation
• Can troubleshoot complex database operations and performance issues
• Can automate tasks using shell scripting or writing small applications

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 3 years experience in a software/technology environment is required.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years experience in a software/technology environment.
• Experience with open source relational database systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of data modeling and schema design
• A thorough understanding of database and data warehousing principles (e.g. OLAP, Data Marts, Star Schema, Snowflake, etc.)
• Write code (we use Java and Python)
• Familiar with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis, Circle CI, etc.
• Experience with Kafka, PubSub, or other event-based systems
• Experience with stream data pipeline frameworks or solutions such as Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Storm, Databricks, etc.
• Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, lambda/kappa architectures
• Experience working in cloud environments and with containerisation frameworks, tools and platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, etc.).

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Terraform to manage Cloud Infrastructure, Chef to manage virtual servers
• Building and deploying systems for metrics, monitoring, and logging
• Operations for Kafka, Kubernetes, and more
• CI/CD Build Systems to ensure our teams can deploy frequently and safely
• Code management and review
• Hardening servers, and building security into the platform
• Developing automation so we can focus on the hard problems
• Implementing features, technology, and processes that move us towards industry best practices, improving on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security
• Responding to incidents and requests

The skills we need

• Is passionate about technology, enjoys keeping up to date with the industry
• Always learning
• Is a team player that can function as an individual
• Excellent communication skills
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making
• Has a deep understanding of database engines
• Confident in his/her ability and skills

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 3 years of DataOps experience in a software/technology environment is required.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a bachelor’s degree or an advanced diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years of DataOps experience in a software/technology environment.
• An understanding of computer science fundamentals, including linux and operating systems, networking
• Solid grasp of development fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
• Can write code (preferably in Python)
• Experience with open source relational database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Practical experience working with other database systems like BigQuery, Redis and ElasticSearch will be beneficial
• Has experience with Kafka, PubSub, or other event-based systems
• Has experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)
• Understands cost and implications of scaling
• Has experience managing Kubernetes Clusters (certificates, users, kubeadm, kubectl etc.)
• Understands networking deeply (tcp/ip, calico/weave, vlans, tcpdump, routing etc.)
• Understands Linux deeply (kernel tuning, proc filesystem, cgroups, os scheduling, etc.)
• Has experience with Build Systems (Jenkins, Gitlab, Spinnaker)
• Has a reasonable understanding of Networking (TCP, UDP, IP)
• Has experience with Linux administration (Processes, Networking, Storage, Security)
• Has experience with at least one configuration management system (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
• Has experience managing production systems

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Build the overall vision for the order fulfillment aspects of the Checkout portfolio on all Takealot shopping platforms (web and apps).
• Drive execution of a multi-year roadmap that prioritizes a mix of key strategic business initiatives and user experience improvements.
• Lead the migration of business logic from other parts of the organization into Checkout empowering the team to create greater impact in the future.
• Facilitate project planning sessions and lead projects through the lifecycle to achieve the stated business objectives.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders, related to a specific vertical / roadmap, including obtaining stakeholder buy-in for requirements and relevant project status communications
• Work hand-in-hand with a team of dedicated engineers and designers, aiming to deliver projects reliably against projected roadmap timelines (set and communicated to stakeholders on a quarterly basis).
• Be responsible for defining and reporting on the success metrics of the projects on the Checkout Fulfillment roadmap.
• Move the needle of the team’s “North Star” metric through consistent execution of projects.

Attributes required:

• Highly-organized and enjoy driving complex projects through to completion.
• Have customer-centricity at the forefront of all conversations and decisions.
• Able to distill technical subjects into their fundamental concepts that can facilitate the effective exchange of ideas between business stakeholders and software development teams.
• Have strong commercial acumen for the factors that drive business success in a fast-paced e-commerce environment
• Comfortable with data deep-diving, individually and collaboratively, in order to generate product-level insights.
• Be proactive in exploring your problem space and surroundings, in support of your team's product vision and roadmap.
• Be highly accountable when it comes to meeting deadlines and driving projects.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field with at least 5 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
• If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, at least 8 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
• Experience executing cross-functional projects, preferably in high-traffic digital environments.
• Experience with a version of scrum/agile for project execution
• Prior experience in ecommerce and/or Supply Chain would be highly preferred