Job Description
Our client in Pretoria is recruiting for an AWS Data Engineer (Advanced) to join their team. Data Engineers are responsible for building and maintaining Big Data Pipelines using our client’s Data Platforms. They are custodians of data and must ensure that data is shared in line with the information classification requirements on a need-to-know basis.
Qualifications/Experience:
- Relevant IT / Business / Engineering Degree
- Candidates with one or more of the following certifications are preferred:
- AWS Certified SysOps Associate
- AWS Certified Architect Associate
- AWS Certified Architect Professional
- Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate
- Business Intelligence (BI) Experience
Advantageous Skills Requirements:
- Exceptional analytical skills analyzing large and complex data sets.
- Perform thorough testing and data validation to ensure the accuracy of data transformations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with precise documentation.
- Self-driven team player with the ability to work independently and multi-task.
- Experience building data pipelines using AWS Glue or Data Pipeline, or similar platforms.
- Experience preparing specifications from which programs will be written, designed, coded, tested, and debugged.
- Strong organizational skills. Experience in working with Enterprise Collaboration tools such as Confluence, JIRA, etc.
- Experience developing technical documentation and artifacts.
- Experience working with Data Quality Tools such as Great Expectations.
- Experience developing and working with REST APIs is a bonus.
- Basic experience in Networking and troubleshooting network issues.
- Knowledge of the Agile Working Model.
- Creating a network community with all needed data stewards within the Group IT.
- Self-driven data obtaining within the community.
Advantageous Technical Skills / Technology:
- Terraform
- Python 3.x
- Py Spark
- Boto3
- ETL
- Docker
- Powershell / Bash
Basic experience/understanding of AWS Components (in order of importance):
- Glue (ETL Scripting)
- CloudWatch
- SNS
- S3
- Lambda
- DynamoDB
- Step Function
- Param Store
- Secrets Manager
- CloudFormation
- Technical data modeling and schema design (“not drag and drop”)
- Kafka
- AWS EMR
- Redshift
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