2,576 Data Engineer jobs in South Africa

iOCO is seeking a skilled Big Data Administrator / Engineer with strong hands‑on experience in Cloudera’s ecosystem (Hive, Impala, HDFS, Ozone, Hue, NiFi) and proven expertise in Informatica BDM / DEI . The role involves administering and configuring big data platforms, deploying / supporting clusters, and building optimized pipelines to move and transform large‑scale datasets. Experience with alternate platforms such as Hortonworks, MapR, AWS EMR, Azure HDInsight, or Google Dataproc will be advantageous.

• Platform Administration : Install, configure, upgrade, and monitor Cloudera / CDP clusters, manage HDFS / Ozone storage, and ensure security (Kerberos, Ranger, Sentry).
• Data Pipelines : Build and optimize ingestion and processing pipelines using NiFi and Informatica BDM / DEI, supporting both real‑time and batch flows.
• ETL Integration : Develop Informatica mappings and workflows, leveraging pushdown execution to Hive / Impala / Spark; integrate diverse on‑prem and cloud data sources.
• Performance Governance : Optimize queries, orchestrate jobs (Airflow, Oozie, Control‑M), and ensure compliance with governance / security standards.

• Strong hands‑on expertise in Cloudera tools : Hive, Impala, HDFS, Ozone, Hue, NiFi.
• Proficiency with Informatica BDM / DEI (ETL / ELT, pushdown optimization, data quality).
• Solid SQL, Linux administration, and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and orchestration tools.
• 4+ years in big data administration / engineering, including 2+ years in Informatica BDM / DEI.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in hybrid or cloud‑based big data environments.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving mindset.
• Ability to work independently and within cross‑functional teams.
• Clear communication and documentation skills.

• Contract position
• Location : Johannesburg

Want to work for an organization that solves complex real‑world problems with innovative software solutions? At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology, software, and development expertise. We are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies. 

You will be part of a consultancy, working with some of the most knowledgeable minds in the industry on interesting solutions across different business domains. 

Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft. 

By joining IOCO you will have an open invitation to developer inspiring forums. A place where you will be able to connect and learn from and with your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions. 

iOCO is an equal opportunity employer with an obligation to achieve its own unique EE objectives in the context of Employment Equity targets. Therefore, our employment strategy gives primary preference to previously disadvantaged individuals or groups.

What you'll do:

• Platform Administration: Install, configure, upgrade, and monitor Cloudera/CDP clusters, manage HDFS/Ozone storage, and ensure security (Kerberos, Ranger, Sentry).
• Data Pipelines: Build and optimize ingestion and processing pipelines using NiFi and Informatica BDM/DEI, supporting both real-time and batch flows.
• ETL Integration: Develop Informatica mappings and workflows, leveraging pushdown execution to Hive/Impala/Spark; integrate diverse on-prem and cloud data sources.
• Performance Governance: Optimize queries, orchestrate jobs (Airflow, Oozie, Control-M), and ensure compliance with governance/security standards.

Your Expertise:

• Strong hands-on expertise in Cloudera tools: Hive, Impala, HDFS, Ozone, Hue, NiFi.
• Proficiency with Informatica BDM/DEI (ETL/ELT, pushdown optimization, data quality).
• Solid SQL, Linux administration, and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and orchestration tools.
• 4+ years in big data administration/engineering, including 2+ years in Informatica BDM/DEI.

Qualifications:

• Bachelorâ€s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in hybrid or cloud-based big data environments.

Soft Skills:

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to work independently and within cross-functional teams.
• Clear communication and documentation skills.

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• Contract position
• Location: Johannesburg

Why work for us?

Want to work for an organization that solves complex real-world problems with innovative software solutions? At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology, software, and development expertise. We are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies.†/p>

You will be part of a consultancy, working with some of the most knowledgeable minds in the industry on interesting solutions across different business domains.†/p>

Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft.†/p>

By joining IOCO you will have an open invitation to developer inspiring forums. A place where you will be able to connect and learn from and with your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions.†/p>

iOCO is an equal opportunity employer with an obligation to achieve its own unique EE objectives in the context of Employment Equity targets. Therefore, our employment strategy gives primary preference to previously disadvantaged individuals or groups.

We are looking for an experienced intermediate Data Engineer. Candidate must have strong SQL & SSIS capabilities, good production support with experience for being on call on a 7-day rotation cycle. AWS cloud skills would be a massive benefit as well.

Skills & Experience Required:

Technical Stack:

• Strong proficiency in 
  SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)
   – candidates should demonstrate extensive experience in developing, optimising, and maintaining SSIS packages in a production environment.
• Proven 
  ability to perform 24/7 on-call support
   and handle production support issues effectively and independently.
• Ability to balance operational responsibilities with new development – we're looking for someone who is not only strong in maintaining and supporting existing systems but also has the capability to drive and implement new projects independently.
• Self-starter with the confidence to take ownership of deliverables, proactively identify issues, and provide solutions without needing constant direction.
• Strong 
  SQL
   and 
  data modelling
   skills (dimensional and normalized)
• Proficient in 
  Python
   or 
  Scala
• Strong SSIS knowledge
• Experience with 
  Spark
   (PySpark preferred)
• Experience with 
  cloud platforms
  , ideally 
  AWS
   (e.g., S3, Glue, Athena, EMR)
• Knowledge of 
  data warehouse
   and 
  data lake
   architectures
• Exposure to 
  CI/CD pipelines
   and containerization (e.g., Docker, GitLab CI)

Production Support Requirements:

This role includes participation in a rotational production support schedule. The successful candidate must be willing and able to:

• Be on call every third week as part of a structured support roster.
• Respond to after-hours callouts, including late-night or early-morning alerts.
• Support and troubleshoot issues in the nightly batch process to ensure successful completion.
• Work collaboratively with operations and infrastructure teams to resolve time-sensitive issues under pressure.
• Maintain logs, escalate critical incidents, and ensure accurate handovers.
• This support responsibility is critical to ensure the availability and continuity of data services required by business users and systems across the enterprise.

Do you have an affinity for Data? Are you able to use tools to interpret and analyze data? Sounds like you could be our next Data Engineer, read on to find out more!

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 to provide an environment enabling 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.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here .

We are open to remote work for this position and will happily accept applicants from anywhere in Portugal, and South Africa,.

The Job

You work with our team to ensure that we’re able to unpick and understand past and future data. You support the overall availability of data to the organization and are expected to be the champion for automated data QA testing - ensuring data quality, reliability, and integrity across our systems.

Responsibilities:

• You translate our business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure that data is readily available from multiple sources.
• You develop and maintain tools to analyze our data and identify trends.
• You turn these data into a clear report thathelps local and global teams take 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 our teams.

About you

You are a lover of all things Data, and understand how to gather, analyze and interpret information. You take pride in data quality and are ready to be the champion for automated data QA testing, driving best practices to ensure data accuracy and reliability. You are used to agile practices and rituals and will join in with the team's way of working.

Requirements:

• 6+ 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
  
• Below are some of the technologies we use at Tiko: Lambda, Flyway, SQL, dbt, pgTAP, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform, Airflow (experience in these technologies will be essential)
• You have excellent English skills
  

Recruitment Process

Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Tech Team | Technical Challenge | Final interview with the Tech Team

The Rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly salary bracket for this position is €2,965 - €4,942 gross in Portugal, and R69,602 - R116,003 gross in South Africa, plus benefits. We 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, we 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.

The Details
Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

—
Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.

Do you have an affinity for Data? Are you able to use tools to interpret and analyze data? Sounds like you could be our next Data Engineer, read on to find out more!

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 to provide an environment enabling 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.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here .

We are open to remote work for this position and will happily accept applicants from anywhere in Portugal, and South Africa,.

The Job

You work with our team to ensure that we’re able to unpick and understand past and future data. You support the overall availability of data to the organization and are expected to be the champion for automated data QA testing - ensuring data quality, reliability, and integrity across our systems.

Responsibilities:

• You translate our business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure that data is readily available from multiple sources.
• You develop and maintain tools to analyze our data and identify trends.
• You turn these data into a clear report thathelps local and global teams take 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 our teams.

About you

You are a lover of all things Data, and understand how to gather, analyze and interpret information. You take pride in data quality and are ready to be the champion for automated data QA testing, driving best practices to ensure data accuracy and reliability. You are used to agile practices and rituals and will join in with the team's way of working.

Requirements:

• 6+ 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
  
• Below are some of the technologies we use at Tiko: Lambda, Flyway, SQL, dbt, pgTAP, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform, Airflow (experience in these technologies will be essential)
• You have excellent English skills
  

Recruitment Process

Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Tech Team | Technical Challenge | Final interview with the Tech Team

The Rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly salary bracket for this position is €2,965 - €4,942 gross in Portugal, and R69,602 - R116,003 gross in South Africa, plus benefits. We 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, we 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.

The Details
Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

—
Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.

Do you have an affinity for Data? Are you able to use tools to interpret and analyze data? Sounds like you could be our next Data Engineer, read on to find out more!

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 to provide an environment enabling 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.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here .

We are open to remote work for this position and will happily accept applicants from anywhere in Portugal, and South Africa,.

The Job

You work with our team to ensure that we’re able to unpick and understand past and future data. You support the overall availability of data to the organization and are expected to be the champion for automated data QA testing - ensuring data quality, reliability, and integrity across our systems.

Responsibilities:

• You translate our business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure that data is readily available from multiple sources.
• You develop and maintain tools to analyze our data and identify trends.
• You turn these data into a clear report thathelps local and global teams take 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 our teams.

About you

You are a lover of all things Data, and understand how to gather, analyze and interpret information. You take pride in data quality and are ready to be the champion for automated data QA testing, driving best practices to ensure data accuracy and reliability. You are used to agile practices and rituals and will join in with the team's way of working.

Requirements:

• 6+ 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
  
• Below are some of the technologies we use at Tiko: Lambda, Flyway, SQL, dbt, pgTAP, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform, Airflow (experience in these technologies will be essential)
• You have excellent English skills
  

Recruitment Process

Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Tech Team | Technical Challenge | Final interview with the Tech Team

The Rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly salary bracket for this position is €2,965 - €4,942 gross in Portugal, and R69,602 - R116,003 gross in South Africa, plus benefits. We 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, we 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.

The Details
Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

—
Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.

Do you have an affinity for Data? Are you able to use tools to interpret and analyze data? Sounds like you could be our next Data Engineer, read on to find out more!

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 to provide an environment enabling 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.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here .

We are open to remote work for this position and will happily accept applicants from anywhere in Portugal, and South Africa,.

The Job

You work with our team to ensure that we’re able to unpick and understand past and future data. You support the overall availability of data to the organization and are expected to be the champion for automated data QA testing - ensuring data quality, reliability, and integrity across our systems.

Responsibilities:

• You translate our business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure that data is readily available from multiple sources.
• You develop and maintain tools to analyze our data and identify trends.
• You turn these data into a clear report thathelps local and global teams take 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 our teams.

About you

You are a lover of all things Data, and understand how to gather, analyze and interpret information. You take pride in data quality and are ready to be the champion for automated data QA testing, driving best practices to ensure data accuracy and reliability. You are used to agile practices and rituals and will join in with the team's way of working.

Requirements:

• 6+ 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
  
• Below are some of the technologies we use at Tiko: Lambda, Flyway, SQL, dbt, pgTAP, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform, Airflow (experience in these technologies will be essential)
• You have excellent English skills
  

Recruitment Process

Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Tech Team | Technical Challenge | Final interview with the Tech Team

The Rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly salary bracket for this position is €2,965 - €4,942 gross in Portugal, and R69,602 - R116,003 gross in South Africa, plus benefits. We 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, we 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.

The Details
Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

—
Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.

Do you have an affinity for Data? Are you able to use tools to interpret and analyze data? Sounds like you could be our next Data Engineer, read on to find out more!

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 to provide an environment enabling 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.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here .

We are open to remote work for this position and will happily accept applicants from anywhere in Portugal, and South Africa,.

The Job

You work with our team to ensure that we’re able to unpick and understand past and future data. You support the overall availability of data to the organization and are expected to be the champion for automated data QA testing - ensuring data quality, reliability, and integrity across our systems.

Responsibilities:

• You translate our business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure that data is readily available from multiple sources.
• You develop and maintain tools to analyze our data and identify trends.
• You turn these data into a clear report thathelps local and global teams take 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 our teams.

About you

You are a lover of all things Data, and understand how to gather, analyze and interpret information. You take pride in data quality and are ready to be the champion for automated data QA testing, driving best practices to ensure data accuracy and reliability. You are used to agile practices and rituals and will join in with the team's way of working.

Requirements:

• 6+ 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
  
• Below are some of the technologies we use at Tiko: Lambda, Flyway, SQL, dbt, pgTAP, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform, Airflow (experience in these technologies will be essential)
• You have excellent English skills
  

Recruitment Process

Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Tech Team | Technical Challenge | Final interview with the Tech Team

The Rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly salary bracket for this position is €2,965 - €4,942 gross in Portugal, and R69,602 - R116,003 gross in South Africa, plus benefits. We 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, we 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.

The Details
Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

—
Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.