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Data Engineer (Platform)

Category

General

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

Kampala, Uganda

Vacancies

1 position

Closing Date

3/14/2025
Closed

Employer / Company

 Zembo Motorcycles SMC LTD logo
Zembo Motorcycles SMC LTD

Description (Public)

Job Title:  Data Engineer (Platform)

Organisation: Zembo Motorcycles SMC Limited

Duty Station:   Kampala, Uganda


 We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong platform expertise to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines while also managing the infrastructure that supports them. As a small but fast-growing team, we need someone who can wear both hats—developing ETL/ELT pipelines while ensuring our data platform is reliable, cost-efficient, and future-proof.

This role is critical to optimizing our IoT data ingestion, analytics, and business intelligence across the company. If you love working with data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation, this is a great opportunity to make a high-impact contribution.

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

 Data Engineering;

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for analytics, BI, and operational decision-making.

  • Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes to move data from IoT devices, APIs, and databases.

  • Ensure data integrity, quality, and governance across different sources.

  • Improve query performance and optimize data access for BI tools like Metabase.

  • Support real-time and batch data processing using tools like Apache Kafka, Spark, or Flink.

Platform Engineering

  • Design and manage the data platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

  • Automate data pipeline orchestration using tools like Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.

  • Own and optimize data storage solutions, including data lakes (S3, Delta Lake) and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, MariaDB).

  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to track data pipeline health (Grafana, Prometheus).

  • Optimize data workflows through DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker).

  • Enable self-service data tooling for analysts, engineers, and business teams

Qualifications, Education and Competencies

Desired

  • Deep knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/ELT patterns.

  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).

  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and storage systems.

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.

  • Familiarity with streaming data technologies (Kafka, Pulsar, MQTT).

  • Ability to work in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with minimal supervision.

  • Exposure to BI tools like Metabase, Looker, or Tableau.

Nice to have

  • Experience with IoT data pipelines (InfluxDB, MQTT, TimescaleDB).

  • Knowledge of data governance, access control, and security best practices.

  • Background in monitoring and optimizing high-scale data platforms.

 

Zembo Electric Motorcycles SMC Ltd offers a fun, supportive work environment and opportunities for continued professional growth within a fast-growing global enterprise. It is an Equal Opportunity  and considers all applicants regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, HIV/Aids, disability, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

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