With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Work as part of an agile team to provide application support for specified tech products & services. This includes first line support & basic optimization, administration, configuration, maintenance & trouble shooting / problem solving with end users of these tech products & services.Job Description
Team Context
Data Engineering is responsible for the central data platform that receives and distributes data across the bank. This is a multi-platform environment and leverages a blend of custom, commercial and open-source tools to manage and support thousands of critical data-related jobs. These jobs are supported and updated in line with changes across the landscape to avoid disruption to downstream data consumers.
Job Description
In this role, you will be part of the Data Operations team that is responsible for supporting all the applications on the Hadoop ecosystem. This role expands in maintaining changes on datasets and optimisation activities on all applications, including new development. They therefore need to understand basic programming to enable them to manage Big Data and to transfer all data to Hadoop.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
Job Experience & Skills Required:
2+ years’ experience working in Big data environment, optimising and building big data pipelines, architectures and data sets with e.g. Java, Scala, Python, Hadoop, Apache Spark and Kafka
Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem and its components
Good knowledge of the concepts of Hadoop
Solid experience in a working environment in Big Data development utilising SQL or Python
Experience in Big Data development using Spark
Experience in Hadoop, HDFS and MapReduce
Experience in database design, development and data modelling
The following additional knowledge, skills and attributes are preferred:
Good knowledge in back-end programming, specifically java
Experience with development in a Linux environment and its basic commands
Ability to write reliable, manageable, and high-performance code
Should have basic knowledge of SQL, database structures, principles, and theories
Knowledge of workflow/schedulers
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Responsibilities
Support pipelines end to end
Build enhancements and new developments
Build and deploy new data pipelines
Identify optimisation opportunities
Improvement on recovery time in case of prod failures
Test prototypes and oversee handover to the Data Operations teams
Attend and contribute to regular team and User meetings
Responsible for the actual coding or programming of Hadoop applications
High-speed querying
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
Top Skills
What We Do
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.
We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
