Data Engineer (Cape Town) needed at Ninety One

In this role you will:

• Assist with designing and building out a modern, automated, event-based communications platform for Ninety One Investment Platform (full stack)
• Assist with building of supplementary data-related features on the Investment Platform web site (full stack)
• Assist with building out a modern, democratized, data platform for the Investment Platform business, within the larger Ninety One Data Platform.
• Assist the team with the ongoing support of existing and new data & communication platforms,
• Work with our various teams of software engineers, data engineers and analysts
• Collaborate with relevant IT Heads, Engineering Leads and Product Owners to define and execute our IT Strategy
• Build relationships within Technology and across the wider business through delivery. We succeed together.

You should consider applying if you have:

• A BSc or other relevant degree.
• A desire to build and work within a high-performing team
• The ability to work in an agile manner so as to ensure incremental delivery and ongoing momentum is maintained
• 5+ years actively working with programming languages such as C#, Python, Angular, SQL
• 2+ years actively working with:
• Integration technologies, such as Rest APIs, Data Factory, Glue, Function Apps etc.
• Data storage technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, Blob storage etc.

Experience with, and a desire to use:

• Modern data technologies such as Data Bricks, Fabric, Data Lakes, Spark, GraphQL etc,
• Modern report technologies such as PowerBI and Tableau
• Modern event technologies such as Event Grids
• Experience with Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP
• Associate to expert level cloud and/or data certifications from Microsoft / AWS / GCP will be advantageous
• Experience with web front-end frameworks, such as Angular, React etc.
• Advantageous, but not required, are
• A prior knowledge of Asset Management or other Financial Services industries.
• Experience with, and an interest in, AI and ML
• Some of the attributes we look for in a person are:
• A client focused and collaborative approach
• Intellectual curiosity
• The ability to ‘approach and own’ and continuously look for opportunities to develop
• Driven by results