Tiko is currently hiring a Senior Data Engineer to join their amazing team
About the company: Tiko inspires futures where girls and young women take charge of their sexual and reproductive choices, with the freedom to shape their lives. Founded in 2014, Tiko is an African nonprofit organisation that enhances the potential and fosters the resilience of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Sub-Saharan Africa by addressing the critical “Triple Threat”: early pregnancy, HIV, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Tiko has developed its own unique girl-centric technology platform to unite an ecosystem of existing, established partners, providing an environment that enables girls to choose when, where, and how they meet their health and wellbeing needs. Leveraging this technology-enabled, community-driven approach, Tiko collaborates with local and national health systems to drive sustainable, transformative change. Tiko operates in seven countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria.
About the role: You will work with their team to ensure that they’re able to unpick and understand past and future data. You will support the overall availability of data to the organisation and are expected to be the champion for automated data QA testing - ensuring data quality, reliability, and integrity across their systems.
Responsibilities:
- Translate their business needs into technical solutions.
- Ensure that data is readily available from multiple sources.
- Develop and maintain tools to analyse their data and identify trends.
- Turn these data into a clear report that helps local and global teams make decisions on risk, changes, and programs.
- Take ownership of implementing and promoting automated data QA testing practices across the team.
- Continue to work in an Agile way, as per their teams.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience working with complex data sets and expertise in data and tools.
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
- Previous experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL).
- SQL and AWS working experience is essential.
- Python, Terraform, and Airflow experience is very beneficial.
- You have excellent English skills.
Tech stack at Tiko: Lambda, Flyway, SQL, dbt, pgTAP, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform, Airflow (experience in these technologies will be essential).
What they offer: At Tiko, they believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly salary bracket for this position is Ksh340,477 - Ksh567,462 gross in Kenya, €2,965 - €4,942 gross x 14 in Portugal, and R69,602 - R116,003 gross in South Africa, plus benefits. They will offer you a salary in this bracket, depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues.
In addition to your monthly salary, they offer you:
- Secondary benefits.
- A personal development budget.
- Unlimited holidays, if you can make it work with your team, you’re good to go.
- Growth opportunities.
- A product to help shape as we grow, to leave your mark on how we do things.
- A vision that we trust that you will do your job without us having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations.
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