Sahara Group

Data Engineer

Sahara Group  •  Lagos, NG (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Data Architecture & Infrastructure

  • Design and implement scalable data pipelines for high-volume transaction systems.
  • Build and maintain batch and real-time data ingestion frameworks.
  • Architect a robust data lake environment for analytics and reporting.
  • Optimize database performance for financial-grade accuracy and uptime.
  • Ensure the integrity and reconciliation of payment and utility transaction data.
  • Design schemas that are optimized for TPV, revenue recognition, settlement tracking, and partner reporting.
  • Implement monitoring systems for anomaly detection and transaction inconsistencies.

2. Analytics & Governance

  • Build reconciliation frameworks across payment processors, wallets, and settlement reports to ensure financial accuracy.
  • Enable BI dashboards for executive, product, performance analytics, and operations teams.
  • Enable lending and risk modeling with structured, clean datasets.
  • Implement data security, encryption, and access controls.
  • Ensure compliance with FinTech and data protection regulations.
  • Maintain audit logs and lineage tracking for financial transparency.

3. Collaboration

  • Work closely with product, engineering, finance, and risk teams.
  • Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
  • Support experimentation frameworks for growth and product activation.

Technical Requirements

  • 3 – 6+ years of experience in data engineering or backend data infrastructure.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • Experience with ETL/ELT tools and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow or equivalent).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Familiarity with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, PostgreSQL).
  • Strong understanding of database optimization, indexing, and partitioning.

Experience & Key Competencies

  • Experience in FinTech, ledger-based architectures, payments, lending, or energy-tech environments.
  • Experience with modern data stack tools such as dbt, Airflow, Dagster, or similar orchestration frameworks.
  • Familiarity with streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, PubSub).
  • Exposure to fraud detection or risk analytics datasets
  • Strong analytical mindset
  • High ownership and execution bias
  • Ability to build for scale, beyond solving immediate problems
Sahara Group

About Sahara Group

Sahara Group is a leading international energy and infrastructure conglomerate with operations in over 42 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Sahara is making a difference responsibly as a dynamic leader in various energy sub-sectors via its power (generation and distribution), downstream, midstream, and upstream businesses in key regional and global markets.

Sahara continues to explore new frontiers; creating innovative and sustainable ways of bringing energy to life responsibly through the unparalleled talent of the men and women who embody Sahara’s irrepressible spirit.

With over 5000 employees from multiple nationalities, Sahara is a uniquely diverse and inclusive organization committed to providing world-class energy solutions and promoting sustainable environmental, social, and good governance interventions across the globe.

Sahara has been at the vanguard of promoting global energy solutions in Africa, having metamorphosed from its initial focus on oil trading to an energy conglomerate renowned for championing capacity building and promoting global competitiveness in Africa’s energy sector.

Sahara continues to invest in technology, artificial intelligence, and human capital transformation as critical drivers of its systematic expansion to consolidate its status as an enterprise that creates value innovatively, responsibly, and sustainably.

Sahara’s social impact vehicle, the Sahara Group Foundation, is invested in empowering businesses one community at a time, through its unique EXTRAPRENEURSHIP model - leaving no one behind in the quest for global sustainable development.

Industry
Oil, Gas & Mining
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Lagos, NG
Year Founded
1996
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