Data Engineer

We are looking for a Tech savvy Data Engineer to join our growing team of data experts. This engineer will be responsible for expanding and optimising our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimising data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimising data systems and building them from the ground up. The Data Engineer will work with our software developers, database architects, data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimising or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

 

Your Profile

1. Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture, delivery cost-optimised solution.
2. Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
3. Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
4. Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
5. Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
6. Work with stakeholders including the Executives, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
7. Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimising our product into an innovative industry leader.
8. Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

 

Your Checklist

1. BE/Masters in Computer Science
2. Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
3. Experience building and optimising ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
4. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
5. Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
6. Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
7. A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
8. Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
9. Strong project management and organisational skills.
10. Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
11. We are looking for a candidate with 3+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
12. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:

• Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow and others.
• AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift, Glue, S3, etc. Or other cloud platform equivalent 
• Object-oriented/Object function scripting languages: Scala, Python, Java, etc.