Intermediate Data Engineer
Permanent
Cape Town
Posted 2 months ago
Seniority level
Intermediate
Experience
3 Years
Remuneration
R45 000 to R65 000
Remuneration type
Salary
Remuneration frequency
Monthly
Benefits
Hybrid Work Model | 20 Days Leave | Internet Allowance
The Company
A leading AI consulting firm specializing in leveraging data to drive business value. Known for delivering cutting-edge solutions in Natural Language Processing, GenAI, LLMs, Predictive Analytics, and Machine Learning, they help clients optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, and gain a competitive edge.
The Role
- Building modern database structures storing terabytes of data used to develop and maintain machine learning models in a cloud environment.
- Collaborate with Software Engineering stakeholders and Leads to define and implement new data-powered solutions and deploy and maintain them in production.
- Supporting best practices in cataloguing, characterising, classifying and communicating accessible data and initiatives relative to data creation so teams can easily access the data.
- Creating and owning best practices in terms of data ‘organisation’, standards and versioning including in a Cloud environment.
- Own data privacy and security standards according to GDPR and apply these to production systems.
- Embracing modern DevOps principles and working in a setting where code is expected to be shared and peer-reviewed.
Experience
- 3 years experience with data wrangling/data engineering, implementing, and supporting robust data transformation pipelines in a production Cloud environment.
- RDBMS systems for OLTP workloads, such as Postgres or MySQL.
- Implementing methods to ensure large-scale (big data) quality and security.
- Software design patterns and test-driven development.
- Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Presto, Hive, AWS Athena and Terraform.
- Dynamic languages, such as Python or R.
- Container technology, like Docker.
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks like Vue, Node.js.