Data Engineer at Clickatell

Clickatell is a global leader in mobile messaging and transaction services, which enable its customers to connect, interact and transact with their business partners and communities on the mobile phone. Video: Ontbytsake (Breakfast Matters) Profile of Clickatell Clickatell's global footprint means that it can deliver short message services (SMS) through it’s next-generation Clickatell Message eXchange (CMneXt) to over 960 mobile networks in over 220 countries and territories, with the potential to reach 6 billion mobile phone users - more than 80 percent of the world’s population. In addition, with Clickatell Transaction eXchange (CTX), it provides the essential link between mobile consumers and their financial institution, with services like airtime top-up. More than 15,000 enterprise, government, medium and small business customers and application developers have embraced Clickatell’s technology solutions. Founded in 2000, Clickatell is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA.

Purpose

• As a Data Engineer, you will be joining our cross-functional data team, and supporting the design, build and testing of high-performance, scalable and multi-event level data solutions.
• You will work with structured, semi structured and unstructured data. You will play a critical role on the strengthen of our analytical presence in the Chat Commerce market.

We Do The Right Things
Responsibilities of the Role

• Design and develop scalable and robust pipelines for data consumption by downstream applications in support of advanced analytics, AI/ML products, and system interoperability.
• Identify opportunities for improvement of existing ETL processes to enhance data integrity and accuracy.
• Work in a scrum-based team that is passionate about enabling a data culture throughout the organization.
• Deliver a high degree of data availability, consistency, and accuracy for our current production systems.
• Actively participate in solution design and modelling to ensure data products are developed according to best practices, standards, and architectural principles.
• Work closely with the data architect, database administrators and BI developers, to redefine our approach to data pipelines and principles of reusability.
• Protect Clickatell's information, intellectual property and corporate data systems in accordance with prescribed guidelines.

We Are On A Learning Journey
Requirements of the Role

• National Diploma, B-Tech or bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or informatics.

Work Experience

• 3+ years of production data engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience working in cloud environments.
• A background working in a high-volume payment transaction environment, or mobile technology platforms and systems integration would be advantageous and be able to demonstrate a sustained track record of delivering high-quality outputs, on-time and to product or business specifications.
• Exposure to Business Intelligence, data warehousing (dimensional modelling) will be advantageous.
• High transactional development environments and Business intelligence experience will be advantageous.
• Experience with data transformation tools such as Talend will be advantageous.

Knowledge and Abilities

• Excellent hands-on experience in working with SQL and NoSQL data sets.
• Experience with data streaming architecture.
• Working knowledge of DevOps principles such as CI/CD.
• Self-disciplined, eager to help, and most importantly a thirst for continual learning.
• Build on our coaching culture, you are someone who will not only be willing, but also passionate about assisting colleagues.
• Formal training business intelligence, data architecture or design would be advantageous.

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