Senior Data Engineer

About the role

The Senior Data Engineer designs and builds the data warehouse and all related extraction, transformation and load functions. The role analyses what the business wants to achieve with its data and designs the best possible ETL and BI processes around those goals.

Key responsibilities

• Develop data models and data marts derived from various source systems
• Build and maintain ETL scripts that move data from sources into staging areas, the data warehouse and data marts
• Use existing objects and code where appropriate to reduce development effort and enforce consistent business rules
• Identify opportunities for analysis and reporting solutions within the company
• Evaluate and select data modelling, BI and data warehouse tools
• Translate business requirements into technical data models and data marts, and contribute to the BI initiative and strategy
• Communicate BI strategy and concepts to other business users
• Document development to company standards, support team members, help establish new standards and processes, and report task status and problems to the project lead

Required profile

• Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, BIT, BBIT or a related field; a master's degree is preferred
• 3-4 years of experience in data engineering or a related field, with additional exposure to Big Data methodologies
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Hadoop and Cloudera is preferred

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of RDBMS and SQL
• Familiarity with ETL tools such as Talend, Informatica, SSIS or IBM Infosphere DataStage
• Preferred: experience with Hadoop, Cloudera and Talend for Big Data