Data Engineer – Cape Town

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Date posted:

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Market Related

SUMMARY:
Data Engineer – Cape Town

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Experience:

vIntermediate in Data Engineer- 2+ years in Data or at least 1 year in Data Engineer.

vSenior Data Engineer- 2+ years or rather working in IT for 5+ years.

v

Requirements:

vFluency in Python and some variety of SQL.

vA strong degree in computer science, or a quantitative discipline.

vExperience in designing and setting up large data systems, with an ability to assess the trade- offs in architectural decisions.

vExperience with distributed processing frameworks (Hadoop, Spark etc).

vKnowledge of large data architectures (data warehouses, lakes, meshes, etc).

vExperience working in cloud environments, especially Azure.

vExperience in building and optimizing big data pipelines.

vDesigning and implementing data warehouses, data lakes and data meshes.

vAdvanced knowledge of relational, non-relational databases with strong experience in SQL.

vWorking knowledge of streaming, message queuing and highly scalable data stores.

vUnderstanding of DevOps processes, CI/CD, and agile development.

vExperience in testing and observability in the context of big data.

vExperience with distributed processing frameworks (Apache Spark, Hive, Kafka, etc.)

vHaving worked in a cloud environment (Azure, AWS).

vSpecific technologies: - Python, R, Scala - SQL (MS SQL Server, Postgres) - Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive - Databricks, EMR.

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