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Are you looking for Engineering Jobs in Uganda 2024? If yes, then you might be interested in Senior Data Engineer job at Multichoice

Kampala, Uganda

Full-time

Deadline: 

9 Aug 2024

MultiChoice Uganda is a subsidiary of the MultiChoice Group, a leading entertainment company in Africa. The company is renowned for providing a wide array of entertainment options, including satellite television, digital terrestrial television, and streaming services. MultiChoice operates popular brands such as DStv and GOtv, offering a rich variety of content from sports and movies to news and children's programming.

Since its inception, MultiChoice Uganda has been committed to bringing the best in entertainment to Ugandan households. The company's mission is to enrich lives through creative storytelling, technological innovation, and exceptional customer service. MultiChoice's investment in local content has also helped nurture the Ugandan film and television industry, creating numerous opportunities for local talent.

Senior Data Engineer job at Multichoice

Multichoice uganda

The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across more than 50 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment.
By joining our passionate and creative team, you can help us achieve our objectives of expanding our pay-TV and SVOD (Subscription Video On demand) subscriber bases, improving advertising sales, spearheading cutting-edge technology, supporting local content and providing an exceptional customer experience.
Join Africa’s most loved storyteller!

Environment & Platform ownership and Governance

  • Implement and manage security or integrity and backup procedures

  • Test and modify systems to ensure that they operate optimally

  • Continuously evaluate functionality of systems (Hardware & software)

  • Perform yearly Audit on environment, processes, and procedures with Internal Audit and/or Auditing company appointed and implement or ensure recommendations are implemented within CII


Operational Delivery

  • Implement high quality, scalable and extendable BI solutions leveraging Azure technology including, but not limited, to Synapse, Data Lake, Azure Data Factory and PowerBI

  • Follow and incorporate DataOps standards and practises

  • Participate in the development of workflow, coding, testing and deployment solutions

  • Implement unit testing for all assigned deliverables to ensure deployment success

  • Support and maintain solutions


  • Design and develop data models using dimensional modelling and data vault techniques

  • Work from high level requirements through to detailed specifications, prototypes, software deployment and administration

  • Deliver incremental business value per sprint

  • Deliver iteratively throughout the sprint

  • Conduct peer reviews within and across squads

  • Profile and analyse data sets


Enablement (Tracking & Monitoring)

  • Ensure customers are informed about business intelligence tool problems and resolutions

  • Track and report on issues and enhancement requests for the business in a timely manner

  • Track, Monitor and Analyse performance and production issues, and guide improvements or corrective actions

  • Improve and advise on changes needed to operational intelligence framework within the enablement area

  • Task and issue management with relevant parties within the Support and Maintenance team

  • Ensure 24/7 system uptime on a rotational support basis


Technical Leadership

  • Participate in the data engineer Community of Practice

  • Lead technical delivery within squads and provide oversight of solutions

  • Share Azure knowledge and practical experience with community

  • Challenge and contribute to development of architectural principals and patterns


Delivery Management

  • Ensure solutions adhere to MultiChoice patterns, guidelines and standards

  • Operate within project environments and participate in continuous improvement efforts

  • Follow and participate in defined ways of work including, but not limited to, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, demos and PI planning

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  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar fields like Information Systems, Big Data, etc.

  • Azure Data Engineer Certification would be advantageous


Experience

  • Minimum 7 years in a Microsoft BI environment, of which at least 2 years must have been in an Azure environment

  • Experience in developing data warehouses and data marts

  • Experience of developing solutions in the cloud (Azure)

  • Experience in Azure Synapse, ADF and Data Lake

  • Experience working in a high availability DataOps environment

  • Experience in Data Vault and Dimensional modelling techniques

  • Experience working with automated data warehousing solutions would be advantageous


Technical Competencies

  • MS Windows Server 2016 through 2019

  • SQL Server 2016 through SQL 2019

  • Azure Services (Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Power BI, Azure DevOps)

  • Dimensional modelling

  • Transact SQL

  • Automation/Scheduling tools/frameworks

  • Working knowledge of Data Ops

  • Understanding of API-based services (e.g. REST, SOAP)

  • Understanding of basic integration concepts

  • Basic knowledge of the Agile SAFe methodology, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and cloud computing


Behavioral Competencies

  • Relationship Building

  • Accountability

  • Teamwork

  • Delegation

  • Interpersonal Support

  • Perseverance

  • Motivating

  • Prioritisation

  • Holistic, analytical and structured thinking

  • Persuading & Influence

  • Time Management

  • Curious/Investigative/Fact Finding

  • Agile mindset

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Decision Making

  • Critical Appraisal

  • Coaching

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