Senior BI Data Engineer

At Kpler, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex markets with ease. By simplifying global trade information and providing valuable insights, we empower organisations to make informed decisions in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors.

Since our founding in 2014, we have focused on delivering top-tier intelligence through user-friendly platforms. Our team of over 500 experts from 35+ countries works tirelessly to transform intricate data into actionable strategies, ensuring our clients stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Join us to leverage cutting-edge innovation for impactful results and experience unparalleled support on your journey to success.

What you’ll do

Implement reliable pipelines to get results and useful information from different data sources by integrating, managing, consolidating and cleansing data. Deal with raw, possibly not validated data that contains human, machine or instrument errors. Ensure that any data is properly received, transformed, stored and made accessible to other users, by applying the proper tests and business rules. Combine, prepare and provide data sets for analytical or operational uses. Have a high sense of data understanding in order to implement code that improves data reliability, efficiency, and quality.

Key responsibilities:

• Architect and develop scalable and resilient data solutions.
• Translate business rules to reliable data transformation pipelines and build ETL pipelines and models using large, multidimensional datasets to uncover trends, patterns, and opportunities.
• Create necessary back-end infrastructure for analytics, reporting visualizations and ML flows.
• Build, maintain and improve the BI reporting code-base, ensuring data integrity and availability according to the needs of the BI team and of the rest of KPLER
• Build integration and unit tests for all data wrangling scripts, in order to ensure high data quality and consistency
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, commercial and business stakeholders to understand strategies, goals, and objectives, and align the analytics roadmap accordingly.
• Identify data flow inefficiencies and proposes alternative solutions
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices, contributing to the team's evolution through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.

Accountabilities:

• Ownership, quality, integrity and consistency of aforementioned code base
• Efficiency of ETLs and availability of data according to needs
• Engineering best practices (documentation, versioning, etc.) should be followed
• Adherence to the Teams' KPI's and OKR goals should be pursued

Your experience:

• Experience with back-end engineering (4+ years) using SQL to pull data from a database or data warehouse and scripting experience (Python) to process data for modelling
• Experience in data engineering, business intelligence, and analytics, with expertise in BI tools and technologies such as Looker Tableau, or similar.
• Experience ingesting data from external APIs
• Experience working with AWS (using tools such as EKS and ECS) and strong database preferably with Snowflake and Postgres
• Knowledge of BI Data Architecture
• Versioning such as Github or Gitlab
• PHP knowledge is a plus
• Ability to understand the business logic behind the data-sets, in order to ensure data quality
• Excellent command of the English language
• Some familiarity with Big Data technologies and frameworks is desired
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related fields.

We are a dynamic company dedicated to nurturing connections and innovating solutions to tackle market challenges head-on. If you thrive on customer satisfaction and turning ideas into reality, then you’ve found your ideal destination. Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us?

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Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.

Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.

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