Data Engineer

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 (previously known as Triggerise) believes in a world where all youth have the power to choose where, when, and how they meet their sexual reproductive health needs. Our digital platform delivers scalable and verifiable sexual reproductive health services for young people in 5 main markets in Sub Saharan Africa - Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa and Burkina Faso. We work together with local communities and use nudges like reminders, discounts, and reward points to encourage our users to access and use sexual and reproductive health services. We also support our users in becoming micro-entrepreneurs and adding value to their economies.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of 160 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, South Africa, and Kenya.

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.

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 that helps local and global teams take decisions on risk, changes, and programs.
• 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 are a logical thinker that can translate real-world issues into technical solutions. You are used to agile practices and rituals and will join in with the team's way of working.

Requirements:

• 5+ 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, Tableau (experience in these technologies will be an advantage)

• You have excellent English skills

Recruitment Process

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

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.

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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.
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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.