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Data Engineer Job Opportunity at I&M Bank

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  • Experience Required:3 Years
  • Total Positions:1
  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Job Category: Information Technology
  • Minimum Education: Degree
  • Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya
  • Posted on: September 30, 2021
  • Last Date: October 12, 2021

Job Description

I &M Bank Limited (a regional Bank with a fast growing branch network around the country) is looking to recruit a competent and highly motivated individual for the following position within the iCube Unit. iCube unit is a function hived off from the day to day operations but collaborates with different functions of the Bank to deliver solutions that are customer centric in design that will radically simplify business requirements and scale fast to full utilization using a clean sheet approach to deliver the desired value.

PURPOSE:
This position is responsible for expanding and optimizing the organization's data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and ‘big data’ technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our products
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

QUALIFICATIONS:
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• 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.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload 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 in a dynamic environment.
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL including Oracle and NoSQL databases
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience with Azure cloud services: Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, Azure Streaming etc.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala, etc.

PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
Academic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Informatics, Computer Science or Engineering from a recognized institution.
Experience
• At least 3 years of relevant experience

Skills and Attributes
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking skills;
• Good communication and interpersonal skills;
• Excellent leadership and people management skills;
• Good customer and negotiation skills;
• Good decision making and problem solving skills;
• Abreast with existing and emerging information and communications technologies;

Apply Online via https://imbank.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=70

Skills Required

Strategic and Innovative Thinking
Communication Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Leadership Skills
People Management Skills
Customer Service Skills
Negotiation Skills
Decision Making Skills
Problem Solving Skills
Information Technology Skills