Senior Data Engineer - Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Data – Data Engineering /
Permanent, Full-Time /
Hybrid
AnyVan makes moving anything anywhere, easier, more affordable and greener for everyone. With Over 8 million customers across the UK and Europe since our launch over a decade ago, we’re proud to be known as the largest, fastest growing tech company in the logistics industry.
Like many popular marketplaces, we’re asset light – i.e., we don’t own any vehicles or employ any drivers. We work with our transport partners and use technology to disrupt the entire delivery and moving process to optimise the most efficient journeys.
Sustainability is a core part of AnyVan’s mission. We’re proud to say we’ve achieved carbon-neutral status on all our transport moves.
Our data engineering team are on a mission: To build a secure, resilient and cost-effective data platform that makes it possible for everyone to be an analyst.
We're at the beginning of our data journey so this is an exciting opportunity to help us shape and mould great data practices with some super smart colleagues in a dynamic, fun business.
We want everyone in the business to be able to make best in class data driven decisions that support our growth. We're pragmatic and open mind about introducing new tools that will drive efficiencies and look to look to simplify processes and prioritise automation to enable the business to quickly adapt to changing needs.
Some of your daily responsibilities will include the following:
- Design, implement and maintain (monitoring, alerting, incident resolution) a Data Warehouse
- Administer tools and systems (security, access control, performance)
- Help Software Engineering Teams understand how the features they release perform over time
- Help the BI team in their journey to promote self-service datasets for key business areas
- Automation through Infrastructure As Code and scripting
- Data quality and consistency data standardisation, documentation and user onboarding
- Ingestion of new data sources to our data warehouse
Here are some of the tools and technologies you will use;
- Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, Airflow, Python, AWS Services (Fargate, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, Cloudwatch, to name a few), Terraform, CircleCI, Github, Docker, Datadog, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Google Suite.
What you'll need to succeed:
- Strong proficiency in SQL for data manipulation and query optimisation.
- Experience running Data Platforms to support Production workloads
- Adequate coding skills in languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.
- Designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Understanding of data modelling, normalisation, and schema design.
- Strong understanding of Git
- Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS preferred but not mandatory)
- Understands Infrastructure As Code (Terraform preferred but not mandatory)
- Experience of Data Security best practices and Data Privacy laws
- A bias to action with a proven track record of getting things done at high tempo
- The ability to commute to our offices in the Central Business District at least 2-3 days a week
- Strong alignment with our company values (outlined below)
Perks of the job:
- A salary that reflects your value
- Take a Break: 20 days of holiday plus public holidays and Christmas Eve on us
- Keeping you healthy: ZAR1,000 per month towards medical aid with Momentum or Discovery
- Prepare for the future: Pension Fund with 5% employee and 5% employer contributions
- Travel: We've got your evening commute covered, car park space if you drive and showers and towels if you cycle
- Keeping you refreshed: Enjoy an in-house barista and free fruit every day
- Social Scene: Thursday and Friday drinks, and regular social activities
- Celebrating Success: 1/4 performance awards with prizes and an annual performance awards - last years winner enjoyed a 4 day all expenses paid trip to the French alps!
- Skills Booster: Opportunity to join a disruptive Technology Leader and be part of a fast-growing, innovative company reshaping the industry
DE&I
In our pursuit of fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, we invite individuals from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. Together, let's create a culture where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every person is empowered to thrive.
Please note if we are able to support visa sponsorship it will be highlighted in the requirements section of the job advert.
Working Patterns
We are extremely proud of our culture and believe in the many benefits that being in the office provides - all our roles require regular time in our office in the central business district in Cape Town.
We do not offer fully remote roles but we support hybrid working wherever possible (3 days in office, 2 days from home). However, to meet the needs of our customers and business operations many of our Operational and Commercial roles are fully office based.
Our Values:
Have fun, get it done
*Work hard, play harder
*Satisfaction in results
*Do the right thing
Progress Over Perfection
*Innovate and disrupt
*Curious and adaptable
*Work quick, learn quicker
One Team Thinking Big
*Collaborate and communicate
*Celebrate wins
*Embrace challenges
