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Senior Data Engineer

JUMO

Posted 3 months agoJohannesburg, South Africa

Location

Johannesburg, South Africa

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

Senior

Category

Engineering

Job Description

About this job At JUMO, we’ve built a smart financial services platform to make finance accessible to everyone. Our Data engineering team ensures that our intelligent banking platform is able to acquire data from millions of users across globally distributed sources, such as GSM. Beyond ingress, the data is processed and stored in the cloud to support event-driven analytics and machine learning pipelines. As a JUMO Senior Data Engineer, you will design, build and maintain scalable data architectures. You will monitor their performance, perform root cause analysis and provide solutions to any issues that might arise. You will work with large, complex data sets, which means experience working with Big Data is essential. On a typical day, we use Spark, Kafka, Python, SQL, Airflow and AWS technologies, such as Redshift. We work with Docker and Kubernetes for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. You will Portfolio Managers and Decision Scientists to understand the real world problems we’re trying to solve You will need 5 - 8 years of experience in a similar role with a BSc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent tertiary degree Real-world understanding & experience of data pipeline design and development, as well as data processing and storage (i.e. experience in designing systems to process and curate large data sets) Experience in streaming technologies, specifically Spark and Kafka Experience with cloud technologies, AWS preferred Solid, proven experience wor
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Requirements

  • 5+ years relevant experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Strong analytical and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead senior data engineer activities
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Drive key performance metrics
  • Design, implement, and maintain the data pipelines that constitute JUMO's data platform, enabling effective use of data across the organisation
  • Provide feedback on team members' output, encouraging skills development within the team
  • Work closely with
  • Be responsible for creating robust, mission critical batch and streaming data processing capabilities
  • Mentor juniors with technical leadership
  • Be supported by senior leaders as you drive your own development

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Health benefits
  • Professional development
  • Impact-driven culture

How to Apply

Apply directly via the JUMO careers portal.