Data Engineer I

Role Overview

The Data Track exists to provide high‑quality, trustworthy payments data that powers business decisions and enables great experiences for travelers and partners, aligning Fintech foundations with robust governance and reliable delivery across reporting and analytics consumers.

Mission: Provide high‑quality payments data that powers impactful decisions and enables exceptional experiences for travelers and partners.

Vision: Achieve "Flawless Payments Analysis and Reporting" across Fintech by ensuring stakeholders can trust and act on data with confidence.

Scope: Govern, acquire, cleanse, enrich, store, and distribute comprehensive, reliable transactional data; additionally manage card data and ensure PCI DSS compliance.

Core capabilities: Operate and evolve the data platform (consumption, transformation, enrichment), deliver reports/dashboards/alerts, improve data quality and lineage, and support analytics and machine learning use cases

The Junior Data Engineer is responsible for supporting development and delivery of end-to-end data solutions. The incumbent supports solution envisaging and technical designs, and drives hands-on implementation. Supports the influencing, differentiation, and guidance to business and technology strategies, as they relate to data, through constant cross-functional interaction.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

Drive efficiency and resilience by mapping data flows between systems and workflows across the company

Ensure standardisation by following design patterns in line with global and local data governance requirements

Support real-time internal and customer-facing actions by developing real-time event-based streaming data pipelines

Enable rapid data-driven business decisions by supporting development of efficient and scalable data ingestion solutions

Drive high-value data by connecting different disparate datasets from different systems

Monitor and follow relevant SLIs and SLOs

Handle, mitigate and learn from incidents in a manner that improves the overall system health

Ensure ongoing resilience of data processes by monitoring system performance and acting proactively identifying bottlenecks, potential risks, and failure point that might degrade overall quality

Write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries

Continuously evolve own craft by keeping up to date with the latest developments in data engineering and related technologies, and upskilling on these as needed.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

1-3 years of relevant job experience

entry level exposure to a data engineering or related field using a server side programming languages, preferably Scala, Java, Python, or Perl

entry level exposure to building data pipelines and transformations at scale, with technologies such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, HBase, MySQL

Basic knowledge of data modeling methods based on best practices, e.g. TOGAF

Basic knowledge of data quality requirements and implementation methodologies

Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.

Total Reward Philosophy: 

The benefits and perks offered by the company can be found here. 

Inclusion at  

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Career Development Opportunities: 

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Become a Mentee and benefit from a mentoring relationship with a more experienced person to help you identify and achieve your professional and personal development goals.

is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

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