Data Engineer at Ozow

Ozow is seeking a Data Engineer to join their team in Cape Town, South Africa. The Data Engineer will be responsible for expanding and optimizing Ozow's data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will be an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.

Responsibilities:

• Expanding and optimizing data and data pipeline architecture.
• Optimizing data flow and collection for cross-functional teams.
• Building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
• Performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes.
• Building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in developing data solutions.
• A degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Statistics or area of study related to data sciences.
• Proficient in data application/software architecture.
• Experience working SQL & Python knowledge and experience working with relational databases.
• Previous experience in operations of a big data ecosystem.
• Experience with operational aspects of platforms such as monitoring and alerts management, availability, capacity management and service management.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams and mentoring/leading teams.
• Experience working with Fintech data (advantageous).

Ozow offers:

• Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks.
• Monthly team connects.
• On-site Barista.
• Birthday Leave.
• Medical aid subsidy (permanent staff).
• Group Risk Insurance (permanent staff).
• Generous paid annual leave.
• Learning and Development opportunities.
• Mentorship programme.
• Quarterly team building.
• Community initiatives.
• Employee gifting.
• Access to cutting edge technology.