Big Data Engineer with IT Data Analytics Expertise

3 days ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa FirstRand Bank Limited Full time
Job Title

Big Data Engineer with IT Data Analytics Expertise

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Big Data Engineer to join our team at FirstRand Bank Limited. As a key member of our IT data analytics platform, you will play a vital role in ensuring the effective movement, collection, integration, storage, and provisioning of data to meet business objectives.

Responsibilities
  • Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs.
  • Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation.
  • Conduct research on emerging technologies, recommend, and implement technologies that improve cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
  • Confer with end users, clients, or senior management to understand business requirements for complex development or enhancements.
  • Assist with gap analysis and business cases including cost and effort analysis.
  • Conduct hands-on work related to profiling, documenting, and validating client data.
  • Execute remediation actions as agreed with clients. Install or update required system components.
  • Implement necessary components and frameworks required for automated deployments and task scheduling.
  • Build unit and systems tests to ensure successful delivery of components into production.
  • Manage user acceptance testing (UAT) and associated signoff through change control.
  • Acquire and collect data via ETL processes from source systems into the Reservoir and Enterprise Data Warehouse, adhering to appropriate data platform standards.
  • Integrate data from multiple sources through the enterprise data platform architecture to meet business objectives.
  • Develop and maintain physical data marts and databases.
  • Automate tasks related to data pipelines for the deployment of operational analytics.
  • Prepare and provision data for advanced analytical modeling by data scientists (as and when applicable).
  • Perform data quality assessments and introduce monitors and alerts to ensure data quality is maintained throughout all managed systems.
  • Create change scripts and sets up scripts to be ready and implemented in production.
  • Participate in architecture forums (as and when required).
  • Utilize various components and tools which make up the data platform for enhanced service delivery.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems.
  • 5-7 years' experience in Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) of data from source systems or experience in data integration for consumption use cases.
  • Big data technologies (Hadoop & Ab-initio tools) and Teradata querying.
  • Advantageous: Microsoft stack SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Power BI, SQL Server, Experience in SAS.
What We Offer

Competitive salary range R 1,200,000 - R 1,500,000 per annum, based on qualifications and experience.


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