Data Engineer Job at Autochek Africa

Autochek Africa is an Automotive Technology development company that builds solutions aimed at enabling and enhancing commerce within the automotive sector. We focus on solutions that improve access to Auto loans, quality maintenance / aftersales services, warranty solutions, and transactional marketplaces. We are operational in West and East Africa and we also have developed a partner-led retail footprint with over 500 service centers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Data Engineer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• We seek to engage a highly skilled and experienced Data Engineer who will work within the Business Intelligence team to orchestrate data extraction from multiple data sources.
• Our data landscape is a largely diverse enterprise with data sources ranging from traditional relational database management systems to 3rd Party cloud solution providers and no-code/low-code platforms
• As such, a lot of data extraction jobs are largely API driven.
• You would be required to build systems that perfectly execute data extraction and transformation to support the data analytics teams and drive speedy decision-making across the enterprise.

Requirements

• B.Sc. Degree or its equivalent in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
• 3+ Years of building and orchestrating data pipelines
• 5+ years of writing clean, usable and well-documented Python code
• Experience working with a startup will be considered an advantage
• Proficiency in ETL development using Python and SQL.
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing Concepts and Data Warehouse Modelling.
• Experience working with at least one Cloud Data Warehouse Solution (Google BigQuery Preferred).
• Good understanding of design choices for data storage and data processing, with a particular focus on cloud data services.
• Experience with data flow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Airbyte is an advantage.
• You have experience working with ELT platforms like StitchData, and Fivetran.
• Hands-on experience with Python data processing frameworks such as PySpark and Pandas.
• Good Knowledge of Software Development Standards and best practices such as Test- Driven Development (TDD), KISS etc
• Experience with using CI/CD tooling to analyse, build, test and deploy your code
• Experience with distributed computing and container orchestration (Kubernetes) is an advantage.
• Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven architecture is an advantage.