Data Enginee

Kilombero Sugar Company Limited is seeking a Data Engineer to work remotely in a part-time capacity. The role focuses on designing and maintaining data infrastructure to support operational and analytical needs, alongside responsibilities in data quality, integrity, and collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure
• Developing and optimizing ETL workflows
• Modeling data structures for key business domains
• Maintaining data warehouses to ensure reliable and accessible information
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand data requirements
• Ensuring data quality and integrity
• Supporting analytics initiatives with well-structured datasets and documentation
• Monitoring data processes
• Troubleshooting issues
• Recommending improvements to enhance performance, scalability, and security

Requirements:

• Strong skills in data engineering, including building and managing data pipelines and data infrastructure
• Proficiency in data modeling and database design for analytical and operational use
• Experience with Extract Transform Load (ETL) processes and tools to integrate data from multiple sources
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and practices for structured, scalable data storage
• Competence in data analytics to support reporting, dashboards, and insight generation
• Experience with SQL and at least one programming language commonly used in data engineering (e.g., Python, Java, or Scala)
• Attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently in a remote setting
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms or big data technologies is an advantage
• Experience in manufacturing, agriculture, or industrial operations data environments is beneficial