Title:  Data Engineer

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Data Engineer

What this position is about - Purpose:

DATA ENGINEER position exists to perform development, solution rollouts and support for Markets & Regions Data services area, and works under the guidance of senior data engineers & Team Leads to maintain and develop pipelines.

The scope includes using software engineering concepts to architect, design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate software solutions, and lead continuous delivery process improvement with Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, Data Bricks, Azure SQL, SSIS, EDI and Synapse.

The incumbent will analyze, organize and combine raw data from different sources and build the corresponding data systems and pipelines to ensure that business needs and objectives are met with the data delivered.

He/she will work on the Agile ways of working currently implemented in JTI and will work on specific workstreams that contains web/mobile applications specific for a business area.

What will you do – Responsibilities: 

Develop and maintenance of data pipelines, which includes:

• Develop the data pipelines for the corresponding projects ensuring that are highly available, scalable, reliable, secure, and cost effective
• Support technical design, development, unit testing, and production deployment 
• Design and document the pipelines developments
• Writes unit/integration tests, contributes to engineering wiki, and documenting the work

Issue resolution and operational support

• Provide timely technical support for issue resolution including UAT and Post Go-Live support, including data maintenance and user access administration. Work with end users and other support teams and the vendor if required
• Closely collaborate with BTS, Enterprise Architecture, GDC or other IT groups  
• Timely update assigned tasks, provide response and solution within agreed team's timelines

Platform configuration and developments

• Ensure that standards are applied and adopt new ones coming as part of expected evolution
• Support technical design, development and unit testing, and production deployment.  Ensure that the solution is aligned with the agreed business process design, functional design and with Microsoft Azure best practices and JTI architecture standards
• Promote DEV/QA/PRD changes, support user testing, fine tune the solution based on testing feedback

Project Management & Business Partnership:

• Communicate timely on the project progress related to developments in assigned area; manage the processes of requests, approval, specifications, development, documentation and unit testing; coordinate between on-site and off-site team related to processes in assigned area; coordinates IT related issue with global IT and other teams
• Development of relationships with customers to understand their needs and priorities, by collecting input from customers and stakeholders; identify and propose process / service / role design improvements geared towards simplification and service level enhancement

Who are we looking for – Requirements: 

• College or University degree
• 1+ year of experience in Data and Analytics from modelling and reporting standpoint
• 1+ year exposure to IT architecture and solutioning for data flows among system and applications
• 1+ year delivering solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform with a special emphasis on data solutions and services - Data Factory, Data Lake, Data Bricks, Azure SQL, SSIS, EDI and Synapse
• Fast learner and able to embrace new technologies
• Experience with ETL tools preferable Azure Data Factory and DataBricks (or similar)
• Azure Data Lakes experience is a big plus
• Strong analytical skills and troubleshooting skills
• Should have good knowledge in testing and validating data solutions
• Database skills, scripting and data modeling
• Very good written and spoken English