About the Role

JOB TITLE: DATA ENGINEER

About This Job:

Q-Sourcing Limited trading as Q-Sourcing Servtec is a manpower management solutions firm operating in the East African Region in the countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

On behalf of our client in the petroleum industry, we are looking for a competent, skilled, and experienced Data Engineer

Job summary:

Reports to Analytics Lead

Overall Objective Building and maintaining data pipelines that will process and clean data from internal and external sources, store that data in our data lake and make available for analytics services

Scope

Developing systems and conduct analysis on data relating to customer behaviour, operational performance, and financial performance to enable decision makers to make decisions to improve business performance.

FUNCTIONS/KEY RESULTS EXPECTED: * Build, own, and maintain systems to extract and present business data.

• Review system design documents and contribute to implementation decisions.
• Investigate internal and external data sources that will contribute to Client’s customer service and decision making
• Assist the Analytics Lead to work with colleagues across the business to understand their data needs
• Architecting data pipelines to move data from different sources and centralize it in our data lake for analytics
• Maintaining the data pipelines
• Ensuring data integrity in source and destination platforms
• Implement monitoring tools to detect issues and measure performance of the data pipelines
• Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies
• Establish, maintain, and monitor information security controls over data pipelines and data lake
• Maintain good knowledge of data processing and analytics technologies and make recommendations to continually improve our analytics stack

KEY CAPABILITIES AND EDUCATION: * Cloud environments, AWS as strong preference.

• AWS Glue, Python, Pyspark, RDS, Lambda, S3, Athena, Quicksight
• ETL, ELT, data migration and cleansing processes
• Data Lakes, data analytics and working with large data sets.
• Relational databases, e.g MySQL
• The ability to work independently yet seek advice where required
• Committed to delivering excellence for customers
• Good level of SQL
• Awareness of good practice in information security and data privacy
• Proficient in Agile development process
• Ability to work in a distributed team
• 2+ years of data analysis or data science
• Working experience of at least 2 years in the field
• AWS qualifications an advantage
• Degree in Computer Science, mathematics or similar

Application procedure:

Interested and qualified applicants should submit their applications through the link below:https://www.careerjet.co.ke/jobad/kecc0ae19d027743962c1acb42aaf5b91a

Note:

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Q-SOURCING SERVTEC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ANY SOLICITATION WILL LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION.