Role overview

Qualifications

Significant experience working on data pipelines, platforms and projects.
Experience in developing solutions in one or more of the main Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Strong background in at least one programming language, Python or Scala preferable.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

Working with the client and the team to determine data processing and access needs and how best to deliver them.
Creation and support of highly available data pipelines and storage solutions (e.g. data warehouses).
Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices.
Mentoring client team members.

Key facts

Remote from: Africa
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
Data Engineer
English

Hard skills

SQL (Programming Language) Python (Programming Language) Scala (Programming Language) Distributed File Systems General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Data Security Terraform Ansible CI/CD Data Processing Test-Driven Development (TDD) XPages

Other skills

Collaboration
Communication

About the company

Equal Experts South Africa

IT Services & IT Consulting

Equal Experts are the innovative team members you want by your side solving business problems through expert software delivery. With over 3,000 consultants across 5 continents, all of whom have more than double the standard number of industry years of experience, Equal Experts has built a formidable culture of adding value to our clients, our team members and the software development industry. The South African team offers a unique experience for any software delivery team member wanting a different, more adult way of working. Our remote first ethos means that our teams work in a high trust environment of their choosing, where the focus is on great communication, excellent team sharing and high performance. The culture of innovation, low ego and knowledge sharing is inherent not only internally where Equal Experts consultants are encouraged to share their expertise and continuous learning with their EE community, but is something we extend into our customer engagements as well, helping to grow those we work with and adding value across the client engagement. We are a team that is excited to contribute to the growth of those around us, a team that builds skills while adding value, and that makes incremental changes that add up to momentous shift. We decide with data, design for users, deliver at pace and scale sustainably.

Company details

Company typeScaleup

IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting

Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.

Our Data Engineers are highly skilled in creating data pipelines for ingest, transformation and storage of data, usually at scale, and are familiar with standing-up analytics clusters.

This role involves using modern agile technical practices - including Continuous Integration and Deployment, TDD, and XP - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.