Data Engineer Database Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and data integration processes.

• Build and optimise databases for performance reliability security and scalability.

• Develop efficient SQL queries stored procedures and database objects for data processing and reporting.

• Design and implement data models and database schemas to support business applications and analytics.

• Manage and maintain PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases ensuring high availability backup recovery and performance tuning.

• Work with application developers to integrate databases with enterprise applications.

• Collaborate with business analysts to build dashboards reports and visualisations.

• Work with structured and unstructured data from multiple data sources.

• Monitor database health troubleshoot issues and implement performance improvements.

• Evaluate and implement modern data engineering tools and technologies.

• Maintain technical documentation for databases data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.

Qualifications & Experience

The ideal candidate should have:

• 2–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer Database Engineer or a similar role.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.

• Experience writing complex SQL queries for reporting and analytics.

• Hands-on experience with MongoDB including schema design indexing aggregation pipelines and query optimisation.

• Experience in database administration performance tuning backup and recovery will be an added advantage.

• Strong understanding of data modelling and database design principles.

• Familiarity with Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Power BI Tableau or Apache Superset.

• Familiarity with Apache Airflow and Airbyte will be an added advantage.

• Good understanding of data quality security and data governance best practices.