Senior Data Engineer, Data Management – BI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Burundi, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, test, deploy, and maintain scalable data pipelines.

• Ingest, transform, validate, and publish both structured and semi-structured data.

• Convert business and product requirements into technical designs, data models, integration patterns, and execution plans.

• Create reusable and maintainable code with a focus on performance, testability, observability, and supportability.

• Develop and optimize batch, event-driven, and serverless data processing patterns.

• Contribute to architectural decisions across data lakes, warehouses, orchestration, metadata, APIs, and application integration patterns.

• Implement data quality checks, monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks.

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment workflows, and infrastructure-as-code patterns.

• Collaborate with analytics, BI, product, and business teams on data products and reporting solutions.

• Assess source systems, APIs, files, data contracts, and transformation logic.

• Engage in Agile practices, code reviews, release planning, incident response, and retrospectives.

• Mentor engineers and advocate for engineering best practices.

• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, data lineage notes, implementation guides, and support materials.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 5 years of practical data engineering experience.

• Proficient in data modeling, data architecture, ETL/ELT patterns, metadata, data quality, and data warehouse or data lake methodologies.

• Practical experience with AWS S3, Lambda, Athena, EMR or EMR Serverless, Glue, Step Functions, SNS, SQS, or similar technologies.

• Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, SQL, or comparable languages.

• Familiarity with Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, Hive, Redshift, Postgres, SingleStore, or similar technologies.

• Experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, automated testing, and deployment practices using GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Solid understanding of Agile delivery, DevOps practices, incident response, production support, monitoring, and performance tuning.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Equivalent practical experience may substitute for the bachelor's degree.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k).

• Paid leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Discounts and perks.

• Fully remote work arrangement.