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Takealot.com is the leading ecommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative ecommerce retailers on the African continent. Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that the customer comes first. All of our focus is dedicated to improving the customer ...
This position reports to the Engineering Team Lead.
Your responsibilities will include the following:
Attributes required:
Qualifications and experience:
The Environment:
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who
The Role
This role reports to the Head of Diversity, Transformation, and Inclusion
Your key responsibilities will be to:
Direct and drive the conceptualisation, research, design, development and delivery of:
Qualifications and Experience requirements
Personal Attributes
The Environment:
We seek to Employ an Extraordinary Mind who:
is respectful but forthright
The position reports to the Advertising Manager
Your responsibilities will include:
Attributes required:
Qualifications and Experience:
The Environment:
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
This position reports to the BI Manager
Your responsibilities will include the following:
Designing, developing and testing QlikView models to provide the business with relevant data imported from multiple sources
Ensuring that the QlikView applications and server processes continue to run and operate in the most efficient manner
Interacting frequently with business stakeholders to gather requirements for new development projects and translating these into solutions
Provide operational support, bug fixes, and performance enhancements as part of providing support to QlikView applications and users
Extracting, validating and analyzing data to answer strategic and operational questions posed by the business
Automating data extraction and report update processes
Data validation and integrity testing
Data cleansing and data modelling
Optimization of data models
Attributes required:
Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
Strong analytical and critical thinking
Proven track record of delivering high-quality work, in a fast-paced environment
Focused 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 and experience:
Bachelor’s degree in relevant Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics field or equivalent experience
If your education does not include formal computer programming, then some form of programming experience is essential
Minimum 2 years’ experience using a BI reporting tool (e.g. QlikView, Tableau, Microsoft BI etc.)
Experience using QlikView is advantageous
Minimum 2 years SQL experience
High proficiency in working with large data sets and business models
Retail or e-commerce industry experience beneficial
The Environment:
takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
We are short on ego and high on output.
We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who
is forthright but respectful
is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
is curious and challenge the status quo
is innovative and enjoys iteration
is collaborative
will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
thinks like an owner of the business.
is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING
This position reports to the Data Platform Team Lead
Your responsibilities will include:
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
Attributes required:
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 and 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
The Environment:
takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
We are short on ego and high on output.
We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to employ an Extraordinary Mind who:
is forthright but respectful
is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
is curious and challenge the status quo
is innovative and enjoys iteration
is collaborative
will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
thinks like an owner of the business.
is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING
This position reports to the Data Systems Director
Your responsibilities will include the following:
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
Attributes required:
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:
Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
3 years relevant industry experience
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.).
The Environment:
takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
We are short on ego and high on output.
We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to employ an Extraordinary Mind who:
is forthright but respectful
is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
is curious and challenge the status quo
is innovative and enjoys iteration
is collaborative
will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
thinks like an owner of the business.
is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING
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