Lead Data Engineer Job Jumia
| Location | JUMIA, Kenya |
| Date Posted | October 7, 2025 |
| Category |
Data Entry
Education / Teaching Engineering IT / Information Technology Management |
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | KES |
Description
- Design and develop pipelines using Python, PySpark, and SQL
- Use GitLab as the versioning control system
- Utilize S3 buckets for storing large volumes of raw and processed data
- Implement and manage complex data workflows using Apache Airflow (MWAA) to orchestrate tasks
- Utilize Apache Iceberg (or similar) for managing and organizing data in the data lake
- Create and maintain data catalogs using AWS Glue Catalog to organize metadata
- AWS Athena for interactive querying
- Familiarize with data modeling techniques to support analytics and reporting requirements, as well as knowledge of the data journey stages within a data lake (Medallion Architecture)
Responsibilities
- Ideally, a degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
- Ideally, +5 years of experience within the Data Engineering landscape
- Strong expertise in Python, PySpark, SQL, and the overall AWS data ecosystem
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical users
- Proficiency to work with GitHub
- Terraform and CICD pipelines are a great ‘nice-to-have’
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