Snr Specialist: IT Systems Developer (Cloud Data Engineer)

About

Description

At Liberty, we employ more than 6 000 people across 7 businesses in 18 African countries. Every day, our employees grow their knowledge by working with diverse groups of people who specialise in a wide range of skills across insurance, asset management, investment and health products. We continually seek to engage, develop, recognise and reward the people who make our business great.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large scale enterprise data solutions by using a combination of the of the following technologies – AWS Glue, AWS Step-functions, AWS RedShift, AWS Lambda, AWS Athena, AWS Lakeformation, Spark, Python
• Analyze, re-architect and re-platform on-premise data warehouses to data platforms on AWS cloud using AWS and 3rd party services
• Design and build production data pipelines from ingestion to integration within a big data architecture, using PySpark, Python and SQL
• Design, implement and support an analytical data infrastructure providing ad-hoc access to large datasets and computing power

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other relevant fields
• Has experience in any of the following AWS Athena, AWS Glue, Pyspark, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Redshift, AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions
• Proficient in SQL, Python and PySpark
• Proficient in utilizing a cloud platform and services
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, devops and operations

Application instructions:

• The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.