AWS Data Engineer – Consultant
Hybrid · Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Job Summary
AWS Data Engineer – Consultant role at Deloitte focusing on building modern data platforms on AWS, including data ingestion pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes, and enabling analytics/AI use cases. Collaborate with enterprise/data architects, data scientists, and engineers to design data structures, workflows, metadata, and workload orchestration; mentor junior colleagues; participate in client technical discussions and option analyses; work on AWS and other cloud technologies; drive continuous improvement with a strong emphasis on data privacy, security, and governance; requires a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field and 4+ years in data solutions, ETL, and data warehousing/datalake implementations; AWS certifications are preferred.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in quantitative areas such as Computer Science, Information Management, Big Data & Analytics, or related field is desired
- 4+ years’ experience in implementation of creative data solutions leveraging the latest in Big Data frameworks, supporting on-premise or AWS cloud to enable use cases in analytics & AI
- 4+ years’ experience with extraction, transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional sources
- 4+ years’ experience with data warehousing or data lakes
- Experience with SQL, NoSQL and data pipelines for real-time, streaming, batch and on-demand workloads
- Experience in data modelling and building robust data pipelines/ETL
- Solid experience in data and SQL; data modeling expertise
- AWS-related technologies and certifications preferred (AWS Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional; AWS Data Engineer Associate)
- Ability to simplify complex concepts for executives/stakeholders
- Strong communication, collaboration, and client-delivery focus
- Agile development experience
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