Data Engineer

Adecore Africa limited is a fast growing and forward-thinking Ghanaian based Fintech startup operating in Accra. We specialize in payments, automation, security and managed services with a focus on providing meaningful, flexible and trusted technology that centers on driving greater financial inclusion and strategic modernization that will generate sizeable economic benefits, boost GDP and increase financial revenue.

Full Time
Accra, Ghana

Job Description

We are looking for a smart Data Engineer to join our growing team of analytics experts. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data, database  and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams.

The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing and re-designing our solution data architecture to support our next generation of products and initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Create and maintain optimal data pipeline and database 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 AWS/GCP ‘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.
  • Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions.
  • Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
  • Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

Skills & 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.
  • We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience , degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:
  • Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
  • Experience with relational & non-relational databases.
  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
  • Experience with AWS /GCP cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
  • Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, ,etc.

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If you share our values and our enthusiasm for create meaningful technology and consumer experiences that add value to the lives of every day people around the world, we’d love to review your application!

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