Data Engineer job at CloudFactory
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Vacancy title:
Data Engineer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Internet , Category: Accounting & Finance ]

Jobs at:

CloudFactory

Deadline of this Job:
24 May 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Overview
As a member of CloudFactory’s engineering team, you will be tasked with building and growing a world-class distributed workforce management platform that will connect one million people in developing countries to basic computer work.

Roles and Responsibilities
Technical
• Help to design and develop a data estate that is performant, accessible, secure, scalable, maintainable, and extensible.
• Help to implement true CI/CD using Github Actions, etc.
• Design and develop EDW using Snowflake, DBT.
• Design and develop AWS Data Lake using S3, Athena, Snowflake
• Design and develop data ingestion pipelines using SnowPipe, FiveTran, etc.
• Model EDW entities and ensure all data is complete, accurate, timely, and documented within Data Dictionary and Ubiquitous Terms documents.
• Work towards the implementation of a true Self-Service BI platform.
• Implement good practices to ensure that Git is used in all circumstances, This includes reviewing others’ work and having your work reviewed and approved by colleagues.
Governance & Data Protection
• Ensure that all work follows best security practices and fully adheres to GDPR, PECR, and other data regulations.
• Ensure that all work follows the correct approval and sign-off process before it is pushed into Production.
• Ensure that all work is documented and if needed - has a runbook in order to allow the business to continually support it.
• Where required, ensure that a PIA (Privacy Impact Assessment) is completed.
• Work with others in the team to keep the Data Dictionary and Ubiquitous Language complete and up to date.
Process
• Follow existing processes and work to improve/identify gaps in these processes.
• Ensure the correct SDLC promotion processes are followed.
• Follow the correct sign-off processes to ensure that only approved releases are deployed into Production.
• Ensure that all AWS development follows CI/CD processes and is repeatable.
Team/People
• Evangelise about the Data Team and estate across the business.
• Build relationships with members of the Data Team and the wider Engineering Team.
• Work closely and collaboratively with all members of the Data Team and wider Engineering Team.
• Work closely with and learn from tech and team leads and challenge proposed solutions with your own ideas.

Requirements
Behavioral Skills

• Ability to work across global teams and working with different cultures across different time zones with strong communication and collaboration skills
• Tendency to go above and beyond to make things work; manage own and others work to meet the deadline and assist other team members in their deliverables
• Ability to identify solutions and make the complex simple.
• Ability to breakdown complex problems into simple solutions
Technical Skills
• Some experience and knowledge of a coding language such as Python.
• Good experience and knowledge of the SQL query language.
• Some understanding of star schemas and data warehouse concepts..
• Some knowledge of AWS tools and technologies (i.e. Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, DDB, RDS etc).
• Beneficial - ETL and ELT experience - both batch and microservices-led.
• Beneficial - Some Snowflake experience.
Tech Stack
• Snowflake (including SnowPipe, streams, security, integrations etc)
• AWS Data Lake (SNS, SQS, S3, Glue, Athena, DynamoDB etc)
• AWS Data Streams (Kinesis, Elastic Search, LogStash, Lambda, API-G etc)
• FiveTran
• DBT
• Quicksight

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to CloudFactory on apply.workable.com to apply

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Job Info
Job Category: Engineering jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 24 May 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 11-05-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 11-05-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 11-05-2065
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