Data Engineer at Savannah Informatics Savannah Informatics

About Us

Savannah Informatics is a Kenyan e-health software company founded by clinicians and finance specialists to deliver interoperable, connected solutions for healthcare facilities, organizations, and regions.

Our vision is to enable a better healthcare future for Kenya through the pioneering use of information technology and knowledge creation.

We are a company with great ideas and employees. Working across various customer sites, our work epitomizes the future we foresee in the East African health sector: efficiency, higher value, better quality, and outcomes for patients and other consumers of health.

Our customers partner with Savannah in delivering challenging projects, thus believing in the capabilities of our employees.

The Savannah team is made up of medical doctors, project managers, and software engineers, who have a common aspiration of transforming the region’s health care.

If you share our motivation, vision, and aspirations, check out the careers page of our corporate website.

We are looking for an experienced data engineer to join our team. You will use various methods to transform raw data into useful data systems. For example, you’ll create algorithms and conduct statistical analysis. Overall, you’ll strive for efficiency by aligning data systems with business goals.

To succeed in this role, you should have strong analytical skills and the ability to combine data from different sources. Data engineering skills also include familiarity with several programming languages and knowledge of learning machine methods.

If you are detail-oriented, with excellent organizational skills and experience in this field, we’d like to hear from you.

• Develop, test and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and data infrastructure.
• Build and maintain data pipeline orchestration systems.
• Implement and support reporting and analytics infrastructure.
• Identify, design and implement improvements in automating processes, optimizing workflows, improving data availability and delivery and redesigning
• Analyze, organize & combine raw data from different sources conducting complex data analysis and reporting on results
• Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modeling, interpret trends and patterns, while evaluating business needs and objectives
• Collaborate with data analysts and other stakeholders on several projects

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (preferably in Social Science, Economics, or Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems Technology, or a related field

• Has strong Linux skills
• Has Working SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases (especially Postgres)
• Has knowledge of data modeling, orchestration tools (e airflow) and data warehouses
• Has experience with ETL/ELT data pipelines
• Have analytic skills associated with working on unstructured data
• Experience with GCP will be preferred

• Great mission and compa ny culture
• Impact work across the Healthcare sector
• Growth Opportunities
• Market Competitive Salary
• Health and Medical benefits package

Savannah Informatics does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression. Savannah is committed to providing a safe and productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we may conduct background investigations for all final candidates being considered for employment. Background checks may include but are not limited to, criminal history, national sex offender search, and motor vehicle history.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Interested candicates can apply via this link.