JOB ADVERTISEMENT
POSITION: SENIOR DATA ENGINEER
DEPARTMENT: TECHNOLOGY - DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS
BAND: S2
ADVERT END DATE: February 11, 2025
JOB PURPOSE: The core function of this role is to design and manage data for the consumption of data teams and business users. The role primarily involves retrieving, mining, processing and making data available to those who need it, when they need it and how they need it.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Mines, organizes, cleans, extracts, stores, processes and manages data from a variety of data sources within the Bank and ensures that data collected is significant to the Bank and its goals.
- Uses creative approaches to feature engineering of transactional information, location information, behavior-based information, and product information to ensure all information is completed and reflective of the Bank’s current state.
- Supports in developing dataset processes for data modelling, mining, and production of data
- Recommends and builds new methods and tools for productive and efficient data procurement and analysis.
- Recommends methods to enhance the collection of data collection, ensures the validity of data sources and storage mechanisms that improve downstream use and efficiency
- Identifies and tunes performance issues, monitoring data integration and ingestion jobs in multiple environments
- Supports the manager to create technical requirements and best-practice driven data warehouse designs and solutions, that will empower end-users to embrace data confidently and responsibly address their complex challenges
- Troubleshoots and resolves issues within data generation systems.
- Combines different frameworks to build suitable data pipelines.
- Uses Extract, Transfer, Load (ETL) tools to merge data from multiple sources and uses application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect different software applications.
QUALIFICATION/EXPERIENCE:
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline
- At least five (5) years in a similar role with two (2) years in the banking sector
- Experience with integration of data from multiple data sources
- Experience with NoSQL databases an advantage (cloud experience preferable) knowledge of the local data protection legislation and regulations