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