Friday , March 29 2024

Old Mutual Vacancies East London – Intermediate Data Engineer

Website Old Mutual

Job Description:

This team’s primary focus is to build and establish the data platform and master data management capabilities by applying industry knowledge, best practices and innovative ideas to take Old Mutual into the future through the use of best of breed technologies and applied thinking and processes on its strategic journey to the cloud.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Enable the business to solve the problem of working with large volumes of data in diverse formats, and in doing so, enable innovative solutions.
  • Creates blueprints for data management systems to centralize, protect, and maintain data sources.
  • Support test and deployment of new services and features.
  • Assist in designing and implementing scalable and robust processes for ingesting and transforming complex datasets.
  • Work with various stakeholders across the organisation to understand data requirements and apply technical knowledge of data management to solve key business problems.
  • Assist in identifying, designing and implementing robust process improvement activities to drive efficiency and automation for greater scalability. This includes looking at new solutions and new ways of working and being on the forefront of emerging technologies.
  • Designs, develops, constructs, maintains and supports data pipelines for ETL from a multitude of sources.
  • Provides technical leadership to junior data engineers in the team
  • Focused on data stewardship and curation, the data engineer enables the data scientist to run their models and analyses to achieve the desired business outcomes
  • Ingest large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Create and maintain functional requirements and system specifications in support of data architecture and detailed design specifications for current and future designs.
  • Provide input into the management of demand across the various data streams and use cases.
  • Design and build bulk and delta data lift patterns for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data.
  • Development of API’s for returning data to Enterprise Applications.
  • Provide support in the operational environment with all relevant support teams for data services.
  • Supports the organisation’s cloud strategy and aligns to the data architecture and governance including the implementation of these data governance practices.
  • Engineer data in the appropriate formats for downstream customers, risk and product analytics or enterprise applications.

Job Requirements:

  • 3+ years of data engineering experience
  • Knowledge and understanding of business process management lifecycle which covers the design, modelling, execution, monitoring, and optimization as well as business process re-engineering.
  • Some experience with R, AWS, XML, json, cron will be beneficial
  • Some experience with Dev/OPS architecture, implementation and operation would be advantageous.
  • Good problem solving skills: The ability to exercise judgment in solving technical, operational, and organizational challenges, to identify issues proactively, to present solutions and options leading to resolution
  • Should be at least at a proficient level in at least one of Python, Java, C/C++ or similar
  • Experience with designing and implementing Cloud (AWS) solutions including use of APIs available.
  • Should be Proficient in bash/ksh, perl, SQL
  • Knowledge of Engineering and Operational Excellence using standard methodologies. Best practices in software engineering, data management, data storage, data computing and distributed systems to solve business problems with data.
  • Some experience in applying SAFe/Scrum/Kanban methodologies.
  • 3+ years of experience with any data warehouse technical architectures, ETL/ELT, and reporting/analytics tools including , but not limited to , any of the following combinations (1) SSIS and SSRS, (2) ETL Frameworks, (3) Data conformance, (4) Caching, (5) Spark (6) AWS data builds
  • The candidate having DBA ability and knowledge across at least 2 platforms (example: TSQL, SAS, PSQL, IBM VSAM, DynamoDB and DB2) will also be beneficial.
  • Good programming, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills, using the latest popular programming languages such as python, scala, java and suite of Microsoft languages C# and F# preferable.
  • Matric, with a degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or Engineering.

Job Details:

Company: Old Mutual

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Pinelands, Western Cape, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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