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- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

This role provides and exciting opportunity to contribute to a strategic initiative within the firm
- Enterprise Infrastructure Big Data Service. The Specialist Support Engineer serves as a support expert with responsibilities within the design, development, automation, testing, support and administration of the Enterprise Infrastructure Big Data Service. The role requires experience with Denodo, and preferably some Big Data solutions exposure. It will involve supporting a data virtualization platform utilized by Absa data engineering community. You will be responsible for ongoing support and administration, reviewing and recommending improvement of tenant solutions and documentation for the service. The platform provides a blueprint for integrating with existing upstream and downstream technology solutions.

Job Description

The incumbent will have the opportunity of working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects and business constituents to support and enhance the data virtualization service.
- Provide support and troubleshooting for data-related issues
- Strong understanding of data integration and data virtualization concepts
- Enhance data accessibility and ensure high performance of data solutions
- Document data integration and virtualization processes
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong programming skills
- Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering or a similar role
- Denodo, Linux
- Preferred: Experience with some of the following: SQL, DBeaver, Python, Bash, Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_