Data Engineer

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2 Locations
Senior level
Logistics • Other
The Role
As a Data Engineer, you will create and maintain data pipelines, optimize data architectures, and ensure data quality and security. You'll work on complex data models and collaborate with teams to derive insights through analytics tools, while adhering to data governance standards.
Summary Generated by Built In

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact. 
What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

As per attached Job Description

Data Engineer

  • Global, ASX-listed market leader in Logistics & Supply Chain | One of the World’s most sustainable companies  
  • Dynamic, collaborative team that’s shaping the future of digital supply chains

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for data engineering and a commitment to data security and governance? Do you excel in designing and maintaining robust data architectures that drive business value?

As part of the innovative Brambles Data & Analytics team, reporting directly to the Team Lead Data Engineering, you will take the lead in creating and optimizing complex data models, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance. Your expertise will help shape the data strategy and architecture, supporting business decisions across the organization.
This position is based in South Africa.

What You’ll Do:

  • Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
  • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
  • Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
  • Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
  • Build analytics tools that utilise the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
  • Work with stakeholder teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
  • Keep our data separated, documented and secure through the development of a centralised analytics data lake for the APAC region.
  • Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimising our data product into being an innovative industry leader.
  • Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
  • Use large datasets to build dashboards and reports to support senior management in effective decision making.
  • Design effective reports and dashboards using visualisation techniques and tools

What will ensure your success in the Role:

  • Educational Background: Relevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Statistics, or related technical fields.
  • Extensive Experience: +7 years of experience in similar position preferable in complex environments in multinational companies
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
  • Data modelling in SQL Server Analysis Services & Power BI plus experience using other  visualisation tools
  • Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines (distributed processing systems), architectures and data sets. Preferably Apache Spark
  • Building reports and dashboards – ideally in Power BI Desktop or other visual tools
  • Experience with cloud solutions in Azure/AWS
  • Familiar with SCRUM / Agile working methods
  • Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
  • Experience with Amazon cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, S3; Redshift; Deeque.
  • Excellent understanding Microsoft SQL Server or equivalent relational database.
  • Knowledge of integration tools such as SSIS, AWS Glue, PySpark
  • Knowledge of Data mining and modelling tools such as SSAS
  • Use of cloud technologies, in particular AWS
  • Databricks
  • Power BI / Tableau / QlikSense / Thoughtspot or Equivalent
  • JIRA
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

Skills to succeed in the role

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

Individuals fraudulently misrepresenting themselves as Brambles or CHEP representatives have scheduled interviews and offered fraudulent employment opportunities with the intent to commit identity theft or solicit money. Brambles and CHEP never conduct interviews via online chat or request money as a term of employment. If you have a question as to the legitimacy of an interview or job offer, please contact us at [email protected].

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The Company
6,172 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1945

What We Do

CHEP is a global leader in managed, returnable and reusable packaging solutions, serving many of the world's largest companies in sectors such as consumer goods, fresh produce, beverage and automotive. CHEP’s service is environmentally sustainable and increases efficiency for customers while reducing operating risk and product damage. CHEP’s 7,500-plus employees and 300 million pallets and containers offer unbeatable coverage and exceptional value, supporting more than 500,000 customer touch-points in 49 countries. Our customer portfolio includes global companies and brands such as Procter & Gamble, Sysco, Kellogg's, Kraft, Nestlé, Ford and GM. CHEP is part of Brambles Limited. For more information, visit www.chep.com.

Reliability. Flexibility. The success of your business depends on both. With CHEP, you can be confident that you’ll get the equipment you need, when and where you need it. Our scale is unmatched, with more than 110 million pallets and over 530 service centers across North America. So you no longer need to worry about seasonal peaks or unexpectedly high demand.

With our broad array of solutions and our pragmatic, roll-up-your-sleeves know-how, we give our consumer goods customers the platforms, the quality, the supply and the support they need to make more money on every unit load. Because everything just works better.

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