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Data Engineer I
full-timeJohannesburg

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Johannesburg

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full-time

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Job Description

To provide required support within guidance of set processes and procedures to ensure effective movement, collection, integration, storage and provisioning of data to build solutions and meet business objectives through understanding of business unit requirements and collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

Hello Future Data Engineer I

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of eBucks our team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

  • Are you someone who can:

  • Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation.

  • Conduct research on emerging technologies. Recommend and implement technologies that improve cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.

  • Confer with end users, clients, or senior management to understand business requirements for complex development or enhancements

  • Assist with gap analysis and business cases including cost and effort analysis.

  • Implement the necessary components and frameworks required for automated deployments and task scheduling.

  • Build unit and systems tests to ensure successful delivery of components into production.

  • Manage the user acceptance testing UAT and associated signoff through change control.

  • Acquire and collect data via ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) processes from source systems into the Reservoir and Enterprise Data warehouse, adhering to the appropriate data platform standards.

  • Integrate data from multiple sources through the enterprise data platform architecture to meet the business objective.

  • Develop and maintain the physical data marts and databases.

  • Automate tasks related to data pipelines for the deployment of operational analytics.

  • Prepare and provision data for advanced analytical modelling by data scientists (as and when applicable).

  • Perform data quality assessments and introduce monitors and alerts to ensure data quality is maintained throughout all managed systems.

  • Create change scripts and sets scripts up to be ready and implemented in production.

  • Participate in architecture forum (as and when required).

  • Utilise various components and tools which make up the data platform for enhanced service delivery.

  • Create requirements and design of the technical architecture, Design and development, testing, and deployment of theproposed solution.

  • Work with Senior Engineer to present technology solutions to senior leadership and influence architectures that will lead the transformation of our IT data analytics platform.

  • Learn from the Subject Matter Expert on technical environment or tools for own area of expertise.

  • Provide Analytic infrastructure or big data technologies related support to Data operations and Analytic teams.

  • Grow online technical knowledge platform, identify best practices and develop guidelines for optimum usage of tools.

  • Assist and work on projects to roll out and support to team members.

  • Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development.

  • Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation.

  • You will be an ideal candidate if you:

  • Preferred Qualification: 

  • Degree in Computer Science or related degree

  • Experience:

  • 4+ years Data Management, Maintenance and Security

  • Ab-initio (Advantageous)

  • SAS

  • Big data (extraction/loading)

  • Reporting (Advantageous)

  • Control-M (Advantageous)

  • You will have access to:

  • Opportunities to network and collaborate.

  • Challenging work environment.

  • Opportunities to innovate.

  • We can be a match if you are: 

  • Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough.

  • Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it.

Job Details

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

31/01/26

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.

Other facts

Tech stack
Data Management,ETL,Data Warehousing,Data Quality,Automation,Collaboration,Research,Cost Analysis,Technical Architecture,Analytical Modelling,Big Data,SAS,Ab-Initio,Control-M,Deployment,Testing

About FirstRand Bank India

FirstRand Bank India is a licensed financial services provider in India and a fully-fledged branch of FirstRand Bank Limited South Africa. The bank opened its doors for trade in 2009 after being granted a full-scale commercial banking license. Based in Mumbai, FirstRand Bank India is a member of the Indian banking fraternity - offering banking services to its clients active in the Indo-African corridor and within
India across corporate banking, investment banking, fixed income, currency and commodity products, and structured products.

Team size: 51-200 employees
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Industry: Banking
Founding Year: 2008

What you'll do

  • The Data Engineer I will support the movement, collection, integration, storage, and provisioning of data to build solutions that meet business objectives. This includes conducting research on emerging technologies, implementing automated deployments, and ensuring data quality through assessments and monitoring.

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