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Job Description
Note : This description consolidates the Associate Data Engineer role content provided. Responsibilities, qualifications and expectations reflect the information in the original posting.
Who are we?
Sanlam Life and Savings (SLS) is focused on serving our retail and corporate clients in South Africa and further developing our strategic advantages in the South African market. Sanlam Life and Savings consists of the following business units Retail Mass, Corporate, Risk and Savings, Glacier and various business enabling functions. The Sanlam Life and Savings Office provides strategic direction, coordination and support to the four clusters, as well as performing governance oversight that includes assurance provided by second line of defense functions in SLS, to enable us to meet our business objectives.
What will you do?
Main Responsibilities :
- Define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it.
- Create role specific design standards, patterns, and principles
- Assist the planning and management of the workload of the team and to ensure delivery
- Load large, complex data sets to and make data available for other data engineers
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements : automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing models for greater scalability
- Working with other data engineers and data modelers, you will design, implement, and manage data vaults, data transformations and the data pipeline
- Identify, design, and implement vault access layers to enable BI products to leverage the data within data vaults
- Monitor and fine-tune data vaults and data transformations on the Cloudera Hadoop stack
- Use modern development and modelling techniques and tools to implement BI and data management solutions, including data quality, metadata and reference data
- Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, data analysts, business analysts, other data engineers and solutions architects
Additional Responsibilities :
Support data stewards to establish and enforce guidelines for data collection, quality improvements, integration, and processes
What will make you successful in this role?
Qualifications :
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferredWork Experience :
The Junior Data Engineer must have relevant experience in a similar environment working with the relevant tools and techniquesTechnical Knowledge and Experience :
Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is requiredKnowledge of database management system (DBMS) physical implementation, including tables, joins and SQL queryingData architecture design and delivery experience preferredExperience in Database technologies (e.g., SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) or Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala preferred and highly advantageousObject-oriented / object functional scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Scala or related)Knowledge and experience of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships, and metadataStrong Data Engineering background with a specific focus on staging high quality dataUnderstanding of data warehousing principles (e.g., Kimball and Vault)Ability to comply to and manage data assets under a strict governance frameworkData warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling (e.g., OLAP and MDX experience)Experience in developing data pipelines using ETL tools (e.g., SAP Data Services), automation (e.g. Wherescape), scheduling and test automation (e.g. Robot) is desirableA solid background in SQL, Information Architecture and ETL procedures is requiredExperience with object-oriented / functional / scripting languages (e.g., Python, Unix Shell scripting, Java, Scala etc.) is preferred but not essentialData Management technologies (e.g., Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), Axon, EBX)Event / Streaming based data pipelines (e.g., Kafka or Nifi) nice to havePersonal Attributes
Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
Decision quality - Contributing independently
Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
Optimises work processes - Contributing independently
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Job Description
We are looking for an Associate Data Engineer to join our Bellville, Western Cape team with similar responsibilities as outlined above. This segment mirrors the emphasis on data engineering, data pipelines, data vaults, and BI readiness as described in the first posting.
Notes
The original post contains multiple postings, locations, and timelines. This refined version consolidates the primary Associate Data Engineer content for clarity and formatting consistency. It does not alter the core responsibilities or qualifications as provided.
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