Senior Data Engineer, Risk Analytics

Company DescriptionStandard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.Job DescriptionTo develop and maintain complete data architecture across several application platforms, provide capability across application platforms. To design, build, operationalise, secure and monitor data pipelines and data stores to applicable architecture, solution designs, standards, policies and governance requirements thus making data accessible for the evaluation and optimisation for downstream use case consumption. To execute data engineering duties according to standards, frameworks, and roadmapsQualificationsQualification: Business Commerce or Information StudiesExperience Required5-7 years experience in building databases, warehouses, reporting and data integration solutions.Experience building and optimising big data data-pipelines, architectures and data sets. Experience in creating and integrating APIs.Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement8-10 years deep understanding of data pipelining and performance optimisation, data principles, how data fits in an organisation, including customers, products and transactional information. Knowledge of integration patterns, styles, protocols and systems theory8-10 years experience in database programming languages including SQL, PL/SQL, SPARK and or appropriate data tooling. Experience with data pipeline and workflow management toolsAdditional InformationBehavioural Competencies:Adopting Practical ApproachesArticulating InformationChecking ThingsExamining InformationInterpreting DataManaging TasksProducing OutputTechnical Competencies:Big Data Frameworks and ToolsData EngineeringData IntegrityData QualityIT KnowledgeStakeholder Management (IT)