Data Engineer at Uniccon Group

Uniccon Group is the home of innovative and customizable tech products to meet your needs. We combine world-class expertise, experience, and modern tools to scale up your productivity. Valuing and collaborating for the best services have kept us ahead of the market. Individuals, SMEs, organisation, and government agencies achieve more with us.

Uniccon Group owns Africa’s leading hub for STEM research, training, and solutions (STEMFocus). Research is the bedrock of our innovative services in the marketplace, payment gateway, workflow optimization, financial intel, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and e-learning products. We are futuristic and leading with METAVERSE and NFTs in Africa. The operations extend to Agro-commodities processing and export, fashion brands, and general contracting business. It oversees operations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world. The products are innovative, and customizable to meet market needs. Unicorn Group is a key player in their respective industries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full Time

Roles & Responsibilities

• Acquire datasets that align with company needs
• To be able to design, build and operationalize data solutions.
• Build, test, and maintain database pipeline architectures
• Process data streams in real-time.
• Efficiently store and access data in the On-premises and cloud servers
• Able to use either GCP, AWS or Azure pre-trained AI APIs (vision, speech, and text)
• Able to train and operationalize ML models.
• Develop algorithms to transform data into useful, actionable information
• Create new data validation methods and data analysis tools
• Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies
• Collaborate with data scientists, data architects and ML engineers on several projects
• Collaborate with management to understand and execute company objectives

Skills

• Previous experience as a data engineer or in a similar role.
• Technical expertise with database technologies, ETL (extract, transform, load) processes, data models, data mining, data warehousing, data lake, big data, data integration, data web-scrape and segmentation techniques.
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Java, Python and Scala)
• Data Pipelines: Understands how to build data pipelines using tools like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Hadoop and Apache Airflow.
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design and know about NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase.
• Be familiar with TensorFlow and PyTorch.
• Great numerical and analytical skills
• Data engineering certification (e.g., IBM Certified Data Engineer) is a plus
• Soft Skills: Good communication skills, problem-solving skills, and a willingness to learn are essential to succeed as a data engineer.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.