Data Engineer at Educate!

Vacancy Title:
Data Engineer

Type: Full-Time
Industry: Business Management and Administration
Category: Data Science / Research

Jobs at: Educate!

Deadline for Application: Saturday, February 15, 2025
Duty Station: Within Kenya, Nairobi, East Africa

Summary

Date Posted: Saturday, February 01, 2025
Base Salary: Not Disclosed

Educate! jobs in Kenya

Job Details

Data Modeling & Transformations (50%)

• Design and implement dbt models, including base, intermediate, and mart layers.
• Create dimension tables following data warehousing principles.
• Implement business logic in transformations.
• Set up incremental processing for data models.

Data Quality Framework (30%)

• Embed quality tests in dbt models (uniqueness, not-null, relationships).
• Set up data freshness checks.
• Create custom data quality tests for business rules.
• Monitor data quality metrics.
• Establish and maintain alerting systems for quality issues.

Data Governance & Standards (10%)

• Develop and enforce naming conventions across databases and tools.
• Create field-level standards (date formats, currency handling, etc.).
• Standardize calculations for key metrics.
• Build and maintain data dictionaries.
• Document business rules and assumptions.

Process & Documentation (10%)

• Create PR templates for model changes.
• Set up model documentation requirements.
• Build style guides for SQL/dbt development.
• Establish testing requirements for new models.
• Create technical documentation.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Strong SQL expertise.
• Experience with dbt.
• Understanding of git management.
• Understanding of data modeling principles.
• Experience with data quality implementation.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Education Requirement

• No Requirements

Job Experience

• No Requirements

Work Hours

• 8

Experience in Months

• Not specified

Level of Education

• Not specified

Job Application Procedure

Interested and qualified candidates? Go to Educate! on job-boards.greenhouse.io to apply.