Senior Data Engineer

Date Posted: Oct. 28, 2022, 5:29 a.m.

KOKO Networks

Job Description

What you will do

  • Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure
  • Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams
  • Build logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams
  • Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate & up to date
  • Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).
  • Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions
  • As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers
  • Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives
  • Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges

What You Will Bring to KOKO

  • At least three years experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
  • A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
  • Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and optimisation, and data warehousing
  • Experience working with big data technologies (preferably within AWS)
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
  • Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Strong initiative, project management and organizational skills
  • Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure
  • Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best practices
  • Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams

How To Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply through Koko Network's career portal via the link https://jobs.lever.co/kokonetworks

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