Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Data Engineer (OVA5509)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

This is a 12 - month contract with our client in the banking sector.

We are looking for a detail-oriented Data Engineer to join our client's team in driving the bank toward a data-driven future. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining robust data pipelines, enhancing our cloud infrastructure, and providing the clean, reliable data necessary for advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI initiatives.

Core Responsibilities

  • Pipeline Management: Build and maintain end-to-end data pipelines, including Data Virtualization, Ingestion, Provisioning, Streaming, and APIs.
  • Operational Excellence: Perform daily monitoring of data warehouses and cloud services (Compute/Storage) to ensure all jobs run successfully and meet SLA timelines.
  • Infrastructure Support: Secure and maintain the data infrastructure to ensure high availability and reliability for stakeholders.
  • Data Quality & Analysis: Execute data profiling, cleaning, validation, and documentation in collaboration with Data Analysts to deliver "fit-for-purpose" data products.
  • Business Enablement: Create virtual databases and data extracts to support business needs; optimize and improve business queries through active stakeholder collaboration.
  • Technical Support: Act as first-line support for pipeline issues, resolving blockers to ensure continuous data availability.

Minimum Requirements

  • Education: A Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
  • Technical Skills: * Proven experience in building and monitoring Data Pipelines (Ingestion and Provisioning).
    • Familiarity with Cloud Infrastructure management and monitoring.
    • Proficiency in Big Data solutions, API integration, and data streaming.
    • Strong knowledge of SQL, data profiling, and data virtualization tools.
  • Soft Skills: Collaborative mindset with the ability to translate complex business needs into technical data solutions.
  • Advantageous: Experience in a banking or highly regulated environment; knowledge of AI/ML data preparation.
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
Website
ovationsgroup.com
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