ABSA careers South Africa – Specialist Data Engineer

Job Description:

Work embedded as a member of squad OR; across multiple squads to produce, test, document and review algorithms & data specific source code that supports the deployment & optimisation of data retrieval, processing, storage and distribution for a business area.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements & manage the data pipeline
• Participate in design thinking processes to successfully deliver data solution blueprints
• Understand the technical landscape and bank wide architecture that is connected to or dependent on the business area supported in order to effectively design & deliver data solutions (architecture, pipeline etc.)
• Create data tools for analytics and data science teams that assist them in building and optimizing data sets for the benefit of the business
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Design data retrieval, storage & distribution solutions (and OR components thereof) including contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle e.g. design process
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline by quickly producing well-organised, optimized, and documented source code & algorithms to deliver technical data solutions
• Build infrastructure to automate extremely high volumes of data delivery
• Leverage state of the art relational and No-SQL databases as well integration and streaming platforms do deliver sustainable business specific data solutions.
• Translate / interpret the data architecture direction and associated business requirements & leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise data solution designs (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting technologies e.g. Ansible, Chef

Qualification & Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

Job Details:

Company: Absa Group Limited

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Functions: N/A

Job Location: Randburg, Gauteng, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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