80403707 - Engineer, Data

Johannesburg, South Africa

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Standard Bank Group

The Standard Bank group is a leading financial services provider that supports Africa’s growth and development.

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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 design, code, verify, test, document, amend, and secure data pipelines and data stores according to agreed architecture, solution designs, standards, policies and governance requirements. To monitor and report on own progress and proactively identify issues related to data engineering activities. To collaborate in reviews of work with others where appropriate

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • A degree or Diploma in Business Commerce or Information Technology.
  • MS SQL, Data Lake technologies & databases, Cloud data engineering tooling, services & storage layers (Synapse, S3, Spark and ADLS etc.
  • Structured, semi-structured & unstructured Data usage, Certification in Data Engineering, DEVOPS, Security and Analytics services.

Experience 

  • Understanding of data Management 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and test complete data architecture, allowing for data-led and data driven decision making.
  •  Analyse data elements and systems, data flow, dependencies, and relationships to contribute to conceptual physical and logical data models.
  • Identify and recommend internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimising data delivery, and write scripts to automate manual and repetitive processes.
  • Liaise with technology colleagues and segment/country data teams to understand viable data solutions within architectural guidelines.
  • Contribute to automation initiatives and help identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc
  • Create data tooling enabling data consumers in building and optimising data consumption, taking integration and usage patterns into account.

Competencies:

  • Developing Strategies
  • Providing Insights
  • Adopting Practical Approaches
  • Developing Expertise
  • Interpreting Data
  • Challenging Ideas
  • Making Decisions
  • Thinking Positively
  • Embracing Change
  • Team Working
  • Seizing Opportunities
  • Taking Action
  • Write Code
  • IT Applications
  • Agile Development
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • DEVOPS
  • Debugging and Fixing Software
  • Testing (unit, regression, integration)

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Tags: Agile APIs Architecture Big Data Data management Data pipelines DevOps Engineering MS SQL Pipelines Security Spark SQL Testing Unstructured data

Perks/benefits: Career development Startup environment Team events

Region: Africa
Country: South Africa
Job stats:  8  1  0
Category: Engineering Jobs

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