Specialist Data Engineer

Job Summary

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together...one story at a time.

Work embedded as a member of squad OR; across multiple squads to produce, test, document and review algorithms & data specific source code that supports the deployment & optimisation of data retrieval, processing, storage and distribution for a business area.

Understand the technical landscape and bank wide architecture that is connected to or dependent on the business area supported in order to effectively design & deliver data solutions (architecture, pipeline etc.)

Translate / interpret the data architecture direction and associated business requirements & leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise data solution designs (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem

Participate in design thinking processes to successfully deliver data solution blueprints

Leverage state of the art relational and No-SQL databases as well integration and streaming platforms do deliver sustainable business specific data solutions.

Design data retrieval, storage & distribution solutions (and OR components thereof) including contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle e.g. design process

Develop high quality data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution design in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment

Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline by quickly producing well-organised, optimized, and documented source code & algorithms to deliver technical data solutions

Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI / CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)

Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting technologies e.g. Ansible, Chef

Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.

Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements & manage the data pipeline

Build infrastructure to automate extremely high volumes of data delivery

Create data tools for analytics and data science teams that assist them in building and optimizing data sets for the benefit of the business

Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience

Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions

Inform & support the infrastructure build required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources

Support the continuous optimisation, improvement & automation of data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution processes

Ensure the quality assurance and testing of all data solutions aligned to the QA Engineering & broader architectural guidelines and standards of the organisation

Implement & align to the Group Security standards and practices to ensure the undisputable separation, security & quality of the organisation's data

Meaningfully contribute to & ensure solutions align to the design & direction of the Group Architecture & in particular data standards, principles, preferences & practices.

Short term deployment must align to strategic long term delivery.

Meaningfully contribute to & ensure solutions align to the design and direction of the Group Infrastructure standards and practices e.g. OLA's, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Containerisation etc.

Monitor the performance of data solutions designs & ensure ongoing optimisation of data solutions

Stay ahead of the curve on data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution technologies & processes (global best practices & trends) to ensure best practice

Coach & mentor other engineers

Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

Build data science team capability in the use of data solutions

Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)

Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Create business cases & solution specifications for…