Junior Data Engineer

Canonical; Cape Town; Remote; USD 40 000 - 80 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering tech firm as a Junior Data Engineer, where you'll leverage your data analytics and mining skills to drive marketing innovation. This role offers a unique opportunity to work remotely within a team dedicated to exploring technology adoption patterns and enhancing customer engagement through data-driven strategies. With a strong emphasis on collaboration, learning, and problem-solving, you'll be at the forefront of shaping the future of marketing technology. Enjoy a competitive salary, personal development budget, and a range of benefits in a fully remote working environment.

Benefits

Personal learning and development budget

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel for team events

Priority Pass for travel upgrades

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with a background in data science or mathematics.
• Experience with coding/scripting languages and databases.

Responsibilities

• Utilize data analytics to enhance product adoption and market penetration.
• Collaborate with teams to improve data access and insights.

Skills

Data Analytics

Data Mining

Python

JavaScript

SQL

Data Visualization

Advanced Statistics

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in Data Science

Degree in Mathematics

Degree in Engineering

Tools

Looker Studio

Tableau

Apache Superset

Job description

Bring your data analytics and data mining skills to a unique team seeking to understand and shape the future of marketing technology. We are interested in technology adoption patterns, the respect of visitors' data, and the use of open source in marketing. We are also interested in marketing data analysts who are curious enough to embrace new technologies and are ready to work with unfamiliar tools, if needed.

The role of a Junior Data Engineer at Canonical

Canonical has provided developers with open source since 2004, helping them build innovations such as public cloud, machine learning, robotics, or blockchain. Marketing at Canonical means being at the forefront of innovation, for our customers and for our own martech stack. We're looking for a marketing data analyst to join our team and execute our growth hacking strategy.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology, technology marketing, and the use of technology in marketing. You will prefer to work in an environment that emphasizes ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity, and a drive to continually improve oneself, the team, and the organization. You will also love problem solving, getting hands-on, experimenting, measuring, and using automation to make daily life easier.

The Marketing team at Canonical drives commercial outcomes for the company across its portfolio of products and grows the addressable market through digital marketing campaigns, lifecycle management, events, partnerships, and community development. If these are important to you and you're motivated by driving data engineering, delighting customers, and filling the sales funnel, we want to talk with you.

This role reports to the Growth Engineering Manager within the Marketing team.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

What your day will look like

1. Utilize advanced data analytics to grow Canonical's product adoption and market penetration.
2. Focus on quantitative and qualitative data analytics to find insights and meaningful business outcomes.
3. Design and conduct experiments with data, visualization, and insights into Canonical's target audiences.
4. Collaborate with stakeholder teams (Product Management, Engineering, Information Systems, Finance, RevOps, etc.) to improve the data and tool ecosystem.
5. Put in place and maintain systems to ensure teams across the company have self-service access to data dashboards.

What we are looking for in you

1. Background in data science, mathematics, actuarial science, or engineering.
2. Knowledge in advanced statistics, data sciences, coding/scripting languages (Python, JS, etc.), and databases (SQL, etc.).
3. Strength in data analytics and visualization (Looker Studio, Tableau, Apache Superset, etc.).
4. Ability to translate business questions into key research objectives.
5. Ability to identify the best methodology to execute research, synthesize, and analyze findings.
6. Excellent writing and communication skills.
7. Willingness to examine the status quo and resilience in the face of challenges.

What we offer you

Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge, and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilization. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity across our global workforce.

In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits reflecting our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location, and for more information, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process.

Fully remote working environment — we've been working remotely since 2004!

Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum.

Annual compensation review.

Recognition rewards.

Annual holiday leave.

Parental Leave.

Employee Assistance Programme.

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints.'

Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, a major open source project and platform for AI, IoT, and cloud, we are changing the world daily. We recruit globally and set high standards for new hires, expecting excellence to succeed.

Since 2004, Canonical has been a remote-first company. Working here challenges you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and elevate your game. It offers a unique view into 21st-century digital business.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a workplace free from discrimination, where diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds enhances our environment and products. We give all applications fair consideration regardless of your identity.