Data Engineer, Group Anti Financial Crime

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To develop and maintain complete data architecture across several application platforms, provide capability across application platforms. To design, build, operationalise, secure and monitor data pipelines and data stores to applicable architecture, solution designs, standards, policies and governance requirements thus making data accessible for the evaluation and optimisation for downstream use case consumption. To execute data engineering duties according to standards, frameworks, and roadmaps

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Studies

Experience Required

• 8-10 years in Data and Analytics
• Deep understanding of data pipelining and performance optimisation, data principles, how data fits in an organisation, including customers, products and transactional information. Knowledge of integration patterns, styles, protocols and systems theory
• 5-7 years in Enterprise Technology & Solutions Architecture
• Experience in building databases, warehouses, reporting and data integration solutions. Experience building and optimising big data data-pipelines, architectures and data sets. Experience in creating and integrating APIs. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
• 8-10 years in Software Engineering
• Experience in database programming languages including SQL, PL/SQL, SPARK and or appropriate data tooling. Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools

Additional Information

Competencies:

• Generating Ideas
• Exploring Possibilities
• Developing Strategies
• Providing Insights
• Interpreting Data
• Challenging Ideas
• Establishing Rapport
• Upholding Standards
• IT Knowledge
• Data Engineering
• Big Data Frameworks and Tools
• Data Quality