Data Engineer

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Tiko

Remote (local)
  • Location: South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Portugal 
  • Career category: Information Technology (IT)
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: R69,602 ZAR-R116,003 ZAR / monthly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Location: South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Portugal 
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Youth Health
Do you have an affinity for Data? Are you able to use tools to interpret and analyze data? Sounds like you could be our next Data Engineer, read on to find out more!

The Company
Tiko inspires futures where girls and young women take charge of their sexual and reproductive choices, with the freedom to shape their lives. Founded in 2014, Tiko is an African nonprofit organisation that enhances the potential and fosters the resilience of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Sub-Saharan Africa by addressing the critical “Triple Threat”: early pregnancy, HIV, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Tiko has developed its own unique girl-centric technology platform to unite an ecosystem of existing, established partners to provide an environment enabling girls to choose when, where and how they meet their health and wellbeing needs. Leveraging this technology-enabled, community-driven approach, Tiko collaborates with local and national health systems to drive sustainable, transformative change. Tiko operates in seven countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria.

The Job
You work with our team to ensure that we’re able to unpick and understand past and future data. You support the overall availability of data to the organization and are expected to be the champion for automated data QA testing - ensuring data quality, reliability, and integrity across our systems.


Responsibilities:
  • You translate our business needs into technical solutions.
  • Ensure that data is readily available from multiple sources.
  • You develop and maintain tools to analyze our data and identify trends.
  • You turn these data into a clear report that helps local and global teams take decisions on risk, changes, and programs.
  • Take ownership of implementing and promoting automated data QA testing practices across the team.
  • Continue to work in an Agile way, as per our teams.

About you
You are a lover of all things Data, and understand how to gather, analyze and interpret information. You take pride in data quality and are ready to be the champion for automated data QA testing, driving best practices to ensure data accuracy and reliability. You are used to agile practices and rituals and will join in with the team's way of working. 


Requirements:  
  • 8+ years of experience working with complex data sets and expertise in data and tools.
  • Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
  • Previous experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL)
  • SQL and AWS working experience is essential 
  • Python, Terraform, and Airflow experience is very beneficial
  • Below are some of the technologies we use at Tiko: Lambda, Flyway, SQL, dbt, pgTAP, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform, Airflow (experience in these technologies will be essential)
  • You have excellent English skills

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