Senior Data Engineer
As one of our first data
engineers, you’ll work with our Business, Analytics, Product and other
Engineering teams to enable them to do more with KOKO’s data, and faster.
You’ll formulate a strategy for our data processing and data stores, and own
implementation and maintenance of these designs, ensuring continued high
performance and availability.
KOKO’s suite of products
spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and
so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is
key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our
technology suite.
What you will do
- Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure
- Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most
appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics,
product and engineering teams
- Build logical and understandable data models and data stores
to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data
sources for consumption by other teams
- Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring
that our data is accurate & up to date
- Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis
processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data
(create tools that assist teams in this process).
- Keep our data secure across national boundaries through
multiple data centers and AWS regions
- As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data
engineers
- Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint
planning meetings and retrospectives
- Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting
similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard
challenges
What You Will Bring to
KOKO
- At least three years experience in software development, data
engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with
relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity
with a variety of databases.
- A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting
value from large datasets
- Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and
optimisation, and data warehousing
- Experience working with big data technologies (preferably
within AWS)
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and
external data and processes to answer specific business questions and
identify opportunities for improvement
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured
datasets
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the
development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards,
code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Strong initiative, project management and organizational
skills
- Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and
decisive under pressure
- Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best
practices
- Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in
planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams
What We Offer
- Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus
- Annual compensation reviews – we reward great work
- Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you
and your dependents (in Kenya)
- 21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination
leave
- Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access
to over 5,000 online courses
- The right equipment for the job – a choice of MacBook,
Windows, or Linux laptop
How To Apply
We believe that our people are critical for our
ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation
where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high
impact through their work.
KOKO is committed to
gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all
backgrounds to apply!
