Data Engineer Remote Job- QuickSight

Nairobi County, Nairobi, Kenya
February 9, 2024
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Data Engineer Remote Job

About Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting 

Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting  1,001-5,000 employees 

Outsourced is a leading ISO certified Philippines staff outsourcing company providing dedicated quality remote staff and offshore staffing services. We specialise in providing professional staff of the highest quality who will continue to exceed your expectations and provide premium offshore solutions to your business.

Homebased Data Engineer – QuickSight: Elevate data solutions remotely with cutting-edge technology.

Job Description

The role will focus on collaborating with the business to develop data models, process flows, datasets and views that are efficient and meaningful representations of data, optimising the data integration platform and ensuring performance, data availability, accessibility, and integrity. You will also be heavily involved in data integration, data consolidation mechanisms and other artefacts necessary to implement best practice ETL type integrations into a data warehouse and data lakes. The role will also develop SQL stored procedures and functions for various in-house applications.

As the Data Engineer, you will provide technical expertise across data platforms to support initiative delivery and new technology implementations. You will oversee the management, optimising, and monitoring of data retrieval, storage and distribution. You will play a key role in supporting the data infrastructure & warehousing.

Main Duties/ Responsibilities

  • Assist in providing feedback as to how data should be captured in systems to ensure the best reporting outcomes are possible
  • Responsible for advanced SQL queries to display provide access to data as needed
  • Combine raw information from different sources and data preparation in SQL or tools like QuickSight
  • Design and implement efficient data flow solutions between different systems
  • Create a data catalogue to help organise and expose data to analysts
  • Collaborate with Data Analysts on data requirements
  • Producing advanced data visualisation using data storytelling skills

What is you experience?

The candidate for this position must also have had at least five years of working experience in a data-focused engineering role; they will also have had experience extracting data and creating queries, reports, and dashboards for decision-makers.

Skills & Experiences

  • Tertiary qualifications in Computer or Data Science or equivalent
  • Proficient in SQL (developing complex SQL outputs taking performance into account)
  • Data Warehousing experience, including multi-dimensional and tabular models that integrate with a range of systems
  • Knowledge of AWS environment (including QuickSight)
  • Strong ETL experience
  • Good understanding of agile methodologies.
  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and team-work skills.
  • Domain expertise in education or educational software is desirable.

Key data technologies currently:

  • QuickSight reporting and dashboards
  • PostgreSQL (AWS RDS)
  • SFDC reporting and dashboards

Work Schedule

  • Monday-Friday 7am-4pm Manila Time

Location

  • Homebased; must have minimum of 20 mbps internet speed for both upload/download.

Data Engineer Remote Job