Data Engineer

Triggerise; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to empowering young women in Africa through innovative data solutions. As a Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring data quality and availability, driving impactful decisions across local and global teams. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborate with diverse colleagues, and shape the future of data-driven initiatives. If you are passionate about data and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Personal Development Budget

Unlimited Holidays

Growth Opportunities

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with complex data sets.
• Strong analytic skills with unstructured datasets.
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain tools to analyze data.
• Implement automated data QA testing practices.

Skills

Data Analysis

Data Quality Assurance

Agile Practices

Analytic Skills

SQL

Python

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Airflow

PostgreSQL

Job description

Do you have an affinity for Data? Are you able to use tools to interpret and analyze data? Sounds like you could be our next Data Engineer, read on to find out more!

The Company

Tiko inspires futures where girls and young women take charge of their sexual and reproductive choices, with the freedom to shape their lives. Founded in 2014, Tiko is an African nonprofit organisation that enhances the potential and fosters the resilience of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Sub-Saharan Africa by addressing the critical “Triple Threat”: early pregnancy, HIV, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Tiko has developed its own unique girl-centric technology platform to unite an ecosystem of existing, established partners to provide an environment enabling girls to choose when, where and how they meet their health and wellbeing needs. Leveraging this technology-enabled, community-driven approach, Tiko collaborates with local and national health systems to drive sustainable, transformative change. Tiko operates in seven countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here.

We are open to remote work for this position and will happily accept applicants from anywhere in Portugal, and South Africa,.

The Job

You work with our team to ensure that we’re able to unpick and understand past and future data. You support the overall availability of data to the organization and are expected to be the champion for automated data QA testing - ensuring data quality, reliability, and integrity across our systems.

Responsibilities:

• You translate our business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure that data is readily available from multiple sources.
• You develop and maintain tools to analyze our data and identify trends.
• You turn these data into a clear report thathelps local and global teams take decisions on risk, changes, and programs.
• Take ownership of implementing and promoting automated data QA testing practices across the team.
• Continue to work in an Agile way, as per our teams.

About you

You are a lover of all things Data, and understand how to gather, analyze and interpret information. You take pride in data quality and are ready to be the champion for automated data QA testing, driving best practices to ensure data accuracy and reliability. You are used to agile practices and rituals and will join in with the team's way of working.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience working with complex data sets and expertise in data and tools.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Previous experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL)
  
• SQL and AWS working experience is essential
• Python, Terraform, and Airflow experience is very beneficial
  
• Below are some of the technologies we use at Tiko: Lambda, Flyway, SQL, dbt, pgTAP, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform, Airflow (experience in these technologies will be essential)
• You have excellent English skills
  

Recruitment Process

Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Tech Team | Technical Challenge | Final interview with the Tech Team

The Rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly salary bracket for this position is €2,965 - €4,942 gross in Portugal, and R69,602 - R116,003 gross in South Africa, plus benefits. We will offer you a salary in this bracket depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues.

In addition to your monthly salary, we offer you:

• Secondary benefits
• A personal development budget
• Unlimited holidays, if you can make it work with your team you’re good to go
• Growth opportunities
• A product to help shape as we grow, to leave your mark on how we do things
• A vision that we trust that you will do your job without us having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations.

The Details
Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

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Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.