About the role
Absa Groupabout 20 hours ago
Main Point, Newfoundland and Labrador
Mid Level
full_time
About the role
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility. Job Summary We are looking for a highly skilled Data Warehouse Developer to join our data engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data warehouse solutions and ETL pipelines across AWS environments. This role is central to enabling high-quality, reliable data for reporting, analytics, and advanced business insights.
Job Description
- Design, develop, and maintain data warehouse solutions in Amazon Redshift, ensuring optimal schema design, distribution/sort keys, and performance tuning.
- Build and optimize ETL workflows using AWS Glue and PySpark, integrating diverse data sources into centralized platforms.
- Manage data ingestion pipelines from relational databases, APIs, flat files, and streaming systems into Hadoop and AWS ecosystems.
- Leverage AWS services (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch, Athena) to design scalable and cost-efficient data solutions.
- Implement data models (star, snowflake, and 3NF) to support analytics and BI reporting.
- Ensure data quality, reliability, and governance, applying best practices for security, compliance, and metadata management.
- Collaborate with analysts, BI developers, and data scientists to deliver well-structured, accessible datasets.
- Document processes, data models, and workflows to ensure maintainability and knowledge sharing.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Data Warehouse Developer or Data Engineer.
- Strong proficiency in SQL (query optimization, complex joins, window functions).
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Redshift (schema design, workload management, tuning).
- Strong knowledge of AWS, Spark for ETL development.
- Understanding of data modeling principles (Kimball, Inmon).
- Proficiency with AWS cloud services (S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform).
- Familiarity with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with real-time streaming frameworks (Kafka, Kinesis).
- Knowledge of data cataloging and metadata management (Glue Data Catalog, Apache Atlas).
- Understanding of data security (encryption, IAM, GDPR/POPIA compliance).
- Exposure to BI/visualization tools (Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Power BI).
Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to work in agile, fast-paced environments.
- Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
Education Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
About Absa Group
Financial Services
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.
We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
About Absa Group Limited
The Absa Group Limited (Absa), listed on the JSE Limited, is one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups offering a complete range of banking, assurance and wealth management products and services. Absa's business is conducted primarily in South Africa. It also has equity holdings in banks in Mozambique and Tanzania and representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria. Absa is a household name; and amongst the many accolades was rated as the No. 1 Banking Brand and Coolest Banking Brand in South Africa three years in a row.
Absa's goal is to become the number one bank in South Africa and selected African countries in terms of profitability and return on equity. They strive to acheive this by identifying opportunities to grow value and to enter new markets, developing a deep understanding of customers’ needs, working together across business clusters, and meeting all the financial needs of the Group’s customers.
Absa is a subsidiary of Barclays Bank PLC, which holds a stake of 55,5% in the Group.
About the role
Absa Groupabout 20 hours ago
Main Point, Newfoundland and Labrador
Mid Level
full_time
About the role
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility. Job Summary We are looking for a highly skilled Data Warehouse Developer to join our data engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data warehouse solutions and ETL pipelines across AWS environments. This role is central to enabling high-quality, reliable data for reporting, analytics, and advanced business insights.
Job Description
- Design, develop, and maintain data warehouse solutions in Amazon Redshift, ensuring optimal schema design, distribution/sort keys, and performance tuning.
- Build and optimize ETL workflows using AWS Glue and PySpark, integrating diverse data sources into centralized platforms.
- Manage data ingestion pipelines from relational databases, APIs, flat files, and streaming systems into Hadoop and AWS ecosystems.
- Leverage AWS services (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch, Athena) to design scalable and cost-efficient data solutions.
- Implement data models (star, snowflake, and 3NF) to support analytics and BI reporting.
- Ensure data quality, reliability, and governance, applying best practices for security, compliance, and metadata management.
- Collaborate with analysts, BI developers, and data scientists to deliver well-structured, accessible datasets.
- Document processes, data models, and workflows to ensure maintainability and knowledge sharing.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Data Warehouse Developer or Data Engineer.
- Strong proficiency in SQL (query optimization, complex joins, window functions).
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Redshift (schema design, workload management, tuning).
- Strong knowledge of AWS, Spark for ETL development.
- Understanding of data modeling principles (Kimball, Inmon).
- Proficiency with AWS cloud services (S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform).
- Familiarity with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with real-time streaming frameworks (Kafka, Kinesis).
- Knowledge of data cataloging and metadata management (Glue Data Catalog, Apache Atlas).
- Understanding of data security (encryption, IAM, GDPR/POPIA compliance).
- Exposure to BI/visualization tools (Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Power BI).
Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to work in agile, fast-paced environments.
- Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
Education Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
About Absa Group
Financial Services
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.
We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
About Absa Group Limited
The Absa Group Limited (Absa), listed on the JSE Limited, is one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups offering a complete range of banking, assurance and wealth management products and services. Absa's business is conducted primarily in South Africa. It also has equity holdings in banks in Mozambique and Tanzania and representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria. Absa is a household name; and amongst the many accolades was rated as the No. 1 Banking Brand and Coolest Banking Brand in South Africa three years in a row.
Absa's goal is to become the number one bank in South Africa and selected African countries in terms of profitability and return on equity. They strive to acheive this by identifying opportunities to grow value and to enter new markets, developing a deep understanding of customers’ needs, working together across business clusters, and meeting all the financial needs of the Group’s customers.
Absa is a subsidiary of Barclays Bank PLC, which holds a stake of 55,5% in the Group.