Data Engineer Job at Awamo - Career Opportunity in Uganda
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Vacancy title:
Data Engineer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Information Technology , Category: Computer & IT ]

 

Jobs at:

Awamo

Deadline of this Job:
21 February 2020  

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Kampala , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, January 31, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:
Overview of the Company
awamo is an ambitious FinTech startup company headquartered in frankfurt, Germany. In Uganda, we are headquartered in Muyenga and have operations in the central and western regions of Uganda. The company's mission is to revolutionize the African microfinance sector. For more information about us, please visit our website at www.awamo.com
Overview of the Position
Now that awamo has grown to this size, we want to harness the power of the data in the platform. To do that, we need additional ETL logic and tools in place to be able to actually make use of the data in a central data warehouse. Once we have that, we can start applying analytics to that data to further improve awamo’s products and services.
The crucial part of your role will be to coordinate and supervise all data-relevant development and maintenance processes in the company from a technical perspective. You are the bridge between business and IT which translates the business requirements into feasible technical solutions, and helps implementing the solutions hands-on regarding the data part.

Responsibilities & duties
• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data processing answers to specific business questions as well as identify opportunities for improvement.
• Manage, maintain and evolve awamo’s product data import ETL pipelines.
• Continually discover new opportunities and techniques for data acquisition
• Develop, manage and maintain awamo’s data warehouse
• Develop data set processes for data modeling (predictive and prescriptive)
• Ensure data integrity through contribution to the system development process
• Contribute to backend developer schema and data structure design discussions to ensure data utilization for future business requirements is catered for.
• Develop and maintain automated data sanitization processes.
• Develop reporting automation, reminders and data-based event triggers.
• Maintain UpToDate schema definitions for all data stores.
• Continue to research and employ smarter more efficient ways for both data ingestions, aggregation and analytic visualization.


Qualifications
Academic/Skills
• Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Statistics, or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Good Git knowledge.


Job Education Requirements: Personality
• Self-motivated
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical skills & structured approach to work
• Highly organized and extremely detail-oriented
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
• Persistent and very patient
• Ability to juggle multiple products simultaneously
• Willingness to work long or irregular hours
• Handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to build strong trusting relationships with all stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment.


Job Education Requirements: Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Statistics, or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well.


Experience Requirements: Min. 3 years working experience


Work Hours: 8

 

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Job application procedure
Interested and qualified candidate send your application, resume (cv) and academic documents (PDF format) to; The HR & Training Manager, awamo Uganda Ltd. Via: http://bit.ly/2U6Am06 

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job:  21 February 2020
Duty Station: Kampala
Posted: 31-01-2020
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 31-01-2020
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 31-01-2066
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