Data Analytics Developer

Brief Description

Reporting to the Data Analytics Development Lead, the position holder will offer leading expert solutions and technical guidance in development, administration, service provision and availability of Safaricom Business Intelligence and analytics systems. This includes data preparation, extraction and loading to business intelligence and data lake platforms for business consumption 

Key Responsibilities:

• Development of ETL and analytics processes used within the BI & Analytics systems;
• Development of reliable data integration and preparation processes;
• Development of insightful dashboards and reports, tracking performance across channels for actionable data-driven decision-making and insights;
• Delivery of highly scalable distributed big data systems, using different open source technologies;
• Design and development of front-end tier(s), middle tier(s), and /or back-end database tier(s) for business applications. Capturing of business applications information needs and mapping of the same to the software and /or database components;
• Performs data modeling design, architecture and build data structures within an application system;
• Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that reporting needs can be effectively developed and implemented.
• Research and provide input on design approach, performance and base functionality improvements for various procedures and applications;
• Generation of ideas to improve efficiency in analytics and application services offered to the business, and/or generate revenue for business;
• Automation and enhancement of Business Intelligence processes leveraging AI for delivery of analytics solutions.
• Participation and membership in various technical fora for the purpose of increasing the collective knowledge base of the team.

Core Competencies, Knowledge And Experience:

Functional Competencies:

• Knowledge in Software development and programming. 
• Understanding of data strategies including data pipelines. Knowledge of NIFI, informatica or any other ETL capabilities. 
• Understanding of Cloud technologies, Kubernetes, vmware
• Understanding of Core IT (BSS/OSS Platforms) capabilities and Core Network (GSM, Transport)

Business Analysis

• Conduct business user requirements analysis and specification with relevant stakeholders. 
• Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that data engineering requirements can be effectively developed and implemented.

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or any other technology related field.
• Advanced UNIX / LINUX scripting, Python and SQL
• Advanced ETL knowledge in Informatica Cloud / IICS / IDMC, Apache NiFi and Kafka
• Oracle certification in database administration or application development
• AWS Certification in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Data Engineer or CompTIA Data+
• MSc/MBA is an added advantage
• Working with relational databases such as MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Apache Hive and non-relational Databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis Programming

How To Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualifications and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the recruitment portal and then click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.

We are the leading telecommunication company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information. We keep over 42 million customers connected and play a critical role in the society, supporting over one million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 362 Billion ($ 3.2 billion) for the 12 months through March 2021. We are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and with annual revenues of close to KES 298 Billion ($2.5 billion) as at March 2022. We were founded in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya before a 40 percent acquisition by Vodafone Group PLC in May 2000, and a public offering of 25 percent shares through the NSE in 2008. Under the management of Vodafone Group PLC, we welcomed Michael Joseph, as our first CEO, a few months later in July of 2000. He led the company’s growth to accommodate 16.71 million subscribers from the previous 20,000, largely owing to innovative products like M-PESA in 2007.