- Enjoy honing your data-related analysis skills and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to solution discussions.
- Regularly take part in further education and training to help you sharpen and extend your data analysis skills.
- Have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about solutions to business, product, and technical challenges.
- Possess an innate awareness of technology trends and how they impact the way businesses consume IT.
- Strong Analytics skills to collect, analyze and generate insight using data.
- Have a basic understanding of IT security and governance including security standards, access policies, and data classification schema.
- Love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun.
- Be dynamic, creative, and willing to take on challenges that have the potential to make a big impact.
- Relish a ground floor opportunity to work in a small, agile, friendly startup environment.
- A Graduate degree (or Masters) in a data or technology-related discipline is preferred.
- An AWS Associate Solutions Architect certification is a bonus.
- Hands on, practical experience, in and around data-related solutions
- AWS experience
- A basic understanding of software development tools and methodologies
- Data analysis experience
- Experience producing quality documentation and written communications * Familiarity with DevOps tools such as Github, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps
- A basic understanding of Infrastructure as Code, especially AWS CloudFormation.
- Some programming skills in one or more of the following languages: R, Python, Java, Node.js, .Net.
- Understanding of SQL, ER diagrams, and data dictionaries to understand and enable querying of data.
- Understanding of Business Intelligence tools including PowerBI, AWS QuickSight, and Tableau.
- A basic understanding of real-time or batch ingestion and transformation pipelines.
- Familiarity with data storage format types such as JSON, AVRO, Parquet, ORC.
- Understanding of fundamental data concepts including databases, data schema, data classification, data security, data governance, data analysis, data transformation, data engineering and data science.
- Exposure to container technology, especially Docker.
- A basic understanding of fundamental networking concepts.
- We’re passionate about the technical community we are a part of, and believe in contributing to open source and AWS initiatives
- We care about climate change and are always looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint
- We support and contribute to a different cause each quarter
- We’re committed to developing your career with customised individual growth and development plans
- We’re committed to ensuring all our staff feel welcome, included and respected every day they work for The Data Foundry