Senior Data Engineer

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Designs, builds, manages, and monitors strategic data assets through the pipeline of data retrieval, storage, database design, and distribution of information assets throughout the organisation.

Job Description

Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

• Design and assemble large, complex data sets to meet functional / non-functional requirements
• Source data from internal and external data sources, engaging with technical subject matter experts
• Design and build infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data across a variety of data sources using various 'big data' technologies
• Help streamline a better supply chain for advanced analytics that goes from experimentation into production.  Identify, design and implement internal process improvements:  automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing models for greater scalability.
• Explore, analyse, and profile data from our various internal and external data sources, and help data scientist to prepare data for analytical purposes
• Resolve critical data modelling issues impacting the functionality of business intelligence products in production
• Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientist, business analysis, other data engineers and solutions architects
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems

Requirements

• More than 5 years of data engineering experience
• Bachelor`s degrees as a minimum qualification
• Proven experience with
  • Scala or Python or Java development
  • Spark and Hadoop data platforms
  • Linux environments
  • SQL scripting
  • AWS
• Skilled in developing data pipelines
• Expertise in data analysis and exploration
• Strong problem solving abilities
   

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Information Technology, Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised