Data Engineer at Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is the world’s leading provider of services, analytics, insights, and intelligence to the global higher education sector - supporting university excellence across the world. Our student recruitment and enrolment solutions enable universities and business schools to connect with talented individuals seeking to further their academic progress and career development. Our portfolio of professional services includes consultancy, student mobility and academic partnerships management, and branding solutions. We publish highly visible and influential rankings of international universities, including the QS World University Rankings® which reaches a global audience of hundreds of millions of people.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Department: Data & Analytics
Job type: Full time, rolling 12-month contract – remote to start, with hybrid working expected in 2024

Responsibilities
As a Data Engineer, this is what you’ll be doing:

• As a Data Engineer at QS, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture in a cloud-based environment and integrated ETL tool, assembling complex data sets, and identifying and implementing process improvements.
• You will also work closely with key business stakeholders to support their data infrastructure needs.
• The ideal candidate will have strong experience in data engineering and management, with expert knowledge of SQL and data modelling.

Role Responsibilities

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture in a cloud based ETL tool, using SQL and Snowflake technologies.
• Assemble potentially complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with key business stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centres and Snowflake/AWS regions.
• Create data tools for analytics and data science team members that assist them in building and optimizing our products/services.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

Qualifications

• Experience as a data engineer, data analyst, or similar.
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring as well as familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Strong experience working with On-Premise and Cloud-based databases and lakes.
• Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
• Experience working within an Agile environment to deliver based on pre-set milestones.
• Experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Key skills and experience:

• Strong Data Engineering/Data Management capabilities and experience.
• Expert proficiency in SQL.
• Experience with Snowflake/AWS/Azure or other cloud-based infrastructure.
• ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) expertise, both logically and with appropriate tools (e.g Kleene.ai, Talend, Alteryx).
• Cloud and/or Data Migration experience.
• Data Modelling expertise.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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