Data Engineer

Company Info
DHL
Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: 0711017100
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Title:

Data Engineer

Location:

Nairobi 

Salary:

$12,000.00

Job ID:

73665
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Job Description:

Are you a motivated, organized person seeking an exciting and rewarding opening in a fast-paced environment?  Would you enjoy being part of a committed team that works together to create a relevant, important difference in the lives of our customers and employees?  If you're looking for change, and you're ready to make changes, we're looking for you.
 
Job Description
We are seeking for an enthusiastic Data Engineer to join our team. You will investigate, analyze and record all or part of a business in a systematic approach. You will also define architecture requirements and create viable specifications of the processes and systems. You are required to manage architecture-related communication inside IT Services and outside DHL. You will design and develop integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. You need to take account of relevant architectures, strategies and policies.
 
Responsibilities
• Work with people responsible for architectural communication in all regions of IT Services and in DHL Business divisions.
• Communicate all important news to the architectural community effectively.
• Analyze public events regarding IT architecture and bring them to the attention of the members of the team.
• Mapping data sources: An understanding of where data is stored and maintained. Although the application teams are responsible for documenting the details of application data, you must know where data is maintained and accessed.
• Defining integrative views of data: These views will draw together data from across the domains. Some views will use a database of extracted data - others will bring together data in "near real time." You will work with business people and data engineers and application designers to identify and model these integrative views and determine the quality of service requirements — data currency, availability, response times and data volumes.
• Analyzing business and system requirements, and define optimal data strategy of fulfilling them.
• Designing and implementing data acquisition strategies. Data Engineer owns and extends the business’s data pipeline through the collection, storage, processing, and transformation of large data-sets.
 
Skills and Qualifications:
• 5 years of experience in related engineering with relevant qualifications in IT field and methods including formal methods.
• Experience in the field of Business Systems Analysis, Business Performance and Analysis.
• Experience in Business, Data, Technical Architecture and leveraging tools.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience with Data Management technologies.
• A minimum of 3 years of Hadoop, NoSQL, and Open-Source data management technologies.
• Inquisitive and analytical minded.
• Proven ability to manage non-direct reports to achieve results and to work in a multi-cultural multi-functional environment where consensus is critical for success.
• Fundamental Data Modelling experience on enterprise level.
• Outstanding knowledge of SQL, procedural SQL (PL/SQL & T-SQL).
• Data architect experience.
• Customer and end-user focused and have excellent oral and written communications skills.
 
Why DHL?
DHL has a business casual environment and focuses on teamwork, associate development, training, and continuous improvement. We value each other's differences while recognizing individual strength. DHL never forget that you make us who we are; we work hard to make sure a career with DHL is as satisfying and successful as it can be. We offer competitive wages, excellent affordable insurance benefits (including health, dental, vision and life), 401K plan, paid vacation and holidays. DHL is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. If you would like to be considered for this elite organization, please submit your recent Resume/CV and Cover letter immediately.