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Job Title:  Data Engineer (Fresher Jobs)

Organisation: DFCU Bank

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Head of Data and Insights

About the Company:

DFCU Bank is a fast growing commercial bank offering a variety of innovative products and services. DFCU Limited was started by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) of the United Kingdom and the Government of Uganda through the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) under the name of Development Finance Company of Uganda Limited. Later restructuring brought in DEG (of Germany) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) as equal partners with CDC and UDC, each having a 25% stake in the company. Its objective was to support long-term development projects whose financing needs and risk did not appeal to the then existing financial commercial lending institutions.

Job Summary:   Reporting to the Head of Data and Insights, the Data Engineer will be responsible for integrating data across multiple sources, developing data pipelines, finding trends in data sets and developing algorithms to help make raw data more useful to the enterprise.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build data pipelines to ingest data from multiple sources into the Data warehouse.
• Optimize and develop ETL or ELT procedures to ensure data orchestration is done within the acceptable threshold.
• Evaluate business needs and objectives and develop datasets to address the needs.
• Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modelling.
• Research and adopt best practices for managing data.
• Incorporate Master Data Management best practices within the data ecosystem.
• Integrate raw information from different sources.
• Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability.
• Identify opportunities for data acquisition.
• Develop analytical tools and programs for exploring data.
• Collaborate with data scientists and modellers on several projects.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Mathematical or IT-related field like Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Software engineering, Data science, or any other highly quantitative field.
• Formal Certification in; Data Science, Big Data or Data Analytics.
• At least two (2) years of work experience in an IT or Finance field or any busy environment working with multiple data sources.
• Commitment & Integrity.
• Proactivity & Innovation.
• Getting Work Done.
• Relationship Building.
• Communicating and Influencing.
• Resilience & Resourcefulness( good at managing large amounts of data).
• Thinking and Problem Analysis.

How to Apply:

If you believe you meet the requirements as noted above, please forward your application with a detailed CV including your present position and copies of relevant professional/academic certificates, to the email address indicated below:

Vacanciesbank@dfcugroup.com

Deadline: 11th September 2024.

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please note that all recruitment terms and conditions as stated in the HR Policies and Procedures Manual shall apply.

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