Senior Data Engineer

An exiciting Opportunity exitst with a Healthcare IT Company in Cape town for a Senior Data Engineer

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The successful Candidate will be part of a cross-functional, agile development team who work across various technologies. The key responsibilities of this role will focus on creating and maintaining data solutions. This will include development activities such as the implementation of ETL processes, the creation of reports, ensuring high levels of data availability and integrity etc.

 

The Company is therefore seeking an energetic and committed individual that is a self-starter and who works well independently as well
within a team context. These attributes together with an ability to learn and embrace new technologies, will be invaluable and of the utmost importance to help ensure progress and the successful implementation of the Company's solutions.

Roles and Responsibilities: (but not limited to)

• Design, develop, schedule, deploy and monitor data pipelines

• Optimize, improve, and validate data pipelines

• Design and deploy data table structures, forms, reports, and queries

• Produce ad-hoc queries and develop reports to support business needs

• Develop security aware cloud data solutions

• Process data into various storage formats such as Parquet, JSON, Avro

• Apply appropriate engines to data processing such as Graph, Relational, NoSQL

• Create and maintain technical documentation

• Help grow data marts and data warehousing

• Help inform and drive data architectures initiatives and strategies

• Engage with business representatives regarding data solution initiatives

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Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with a focus on data management (e.g. Information Systems, Statistics, Da ta Engineering)

• A minimum of 5 years' experience working as a data engineer utilizing visual pipeline designers such as SSIS, Talend, Informatica or Azure Data Factory

• A minimum of 2 years data engineering in a commercial cloud environment like Azure

• Advanced proficiency in the SQL language

• SQL Query optimization skills

• Experience in at least two DBMS's such as Postgres, MySQL or MSSQL

• Experience in loading data from diverse sources

• Experience in the development, implementation and monitoring of ETL processes

• Experience in database administration, maintenance and optimization

• A sound understanding of data management principles including data quality assurance and data governance

• Experience in source code and version control systems

• Experience in master data management and the implementation and maintenance thereof

 

Experience in the following is very advantageous:

• Experience in Azure data technologies

• Database administration

• Bash or PowerShell scripting

• Data Engineering certifications form Google, Azure or AWS

• Demonstrated interest in the claims and Healthcare IT space.

 

Apply if you have the Qualifications, Skills and Experience and this Oppotunity is for you !

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