Data Engineering Developer International Jobs – Living Goods (LG)
Job Title: Data Engineering Developer
Organisation: Living Goods (LG)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda or Nairobi Kenya
About US:
Living Goods (LG) seeks to improve the lives of tens of millions of underserved customers by revolutionizing the way community health is delivered in the developing world. To do this, Living Goods not only grows its own business operations, but also dramatically magnifies its impact through large-scale partnerships. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights.
Job Summary: The exceptionally qualified Data Engineering Developer will help us model, organize, transform, validate, secure, and catalog this personal health data, supplemented with public data and data from our partners. Putting this data in the right form, with the right tools, is essential to our ability to grow and improve, and ultimately to serve our clients. You’ll be a good fit if you can handle all aspects of data engineering, from establishing data pipelines to supporting visualization technologies for analysts.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design and administer our database environment, which includes SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CouchDB. Configure database instances, recommend physical data models, and optimize for performance.
- Manage our data pipelines, ensuring that the right data lands in the right place at the right time. Create and monitor systems for data transformation and validation.
- Work closely with our data analysts, software developers, operations teams, and partners, who are the producers and consumers of data. Help them choose the right data and deliver systems to support them.
- Write technical documentation, including data catalogs, standards, and procedures.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Living Goods Data Engineering Developer job placement should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field from a top academic program, or equivalent experience.
- Three or more years of professional software development experience, preferably in Python.
- Previous experience using and administering relational and non-relational database platforms, and mastery of at least one (preferably SQL Server).
- Strong analytic skills, especially related to reasoning about data sets. Preferably a successful history of extracting value from disconnected data sets.
- Knowledge of data visualization technologies and platforms.
- Great English communication skills.
Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance, vacation, and a bonus opportunity. The opportunity to enter an exciting career path within a fast and growing mission driven team.
NB: Please note that only candidates meeting the minimum qualifications will be considered.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply online at the web link below.
Deadline: 6th July 2018
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