JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE
Description
About Souq:
Souq.com is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 41 million visits to its catalogue of more than 8.5 million unique products in 35 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products.
Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.
With more than 4,000 employees, We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India, offering a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.
Primary Responsibility:
- Strong knowledge & exposure on DWH concepts & methodologies, the new world of Data Lake
- To communicate effectively with business for the projects.
- Understanding of relational and non-relational databases like Mysql, SQL, Redshift, Vertica etc
- Data Migration & Validation experience between multiple sources
- Knowledge of best coding practices
- Proficient in SQL writing
- Hands on experience on ETL tools like Pentaho Data Integration, Informatica, Matillion etc is an additional advantage
- Strong design concepts to implement end to end solutions
- Knowledge on AWS cloud based technologies is an additional advantage
- Innovator, learner and a developer by heart
- Knowledge on languages like java, Python, javascript. Hands on experience on shell scripting and unix commands
- Experience in writing Unit test cases for data quality
- Customer Obsession & capable of delivering results in dynamic environment.
- Able to dive deeply into technical details (e.g., key dependencies, design choices, operability, etc.) and drive a constructive technical discussion.
REQUIREMENTS
Basic Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline.
- Minimum of 6 month of Database experience.
- Problem Solver with good aptitude skills
- Must have a desire for achieving excellence in customer satisfaction, process and product quality and reliability.
- Is able to create a physical data model
Preferred Qualifications:
- Builds/optimizes physical data model and data pipelines for simple datasets.
- Knowledgeable in a variety of strategies for ingesting, modelling, processing, and persisting data
- Understand the differences between data persistence solutions (e.g. HDFS vs RDBMS), data integration techniques (e.g. ETL vs federation), database optimization (e.g. partitioning, distribution, indexing)
- Able to troubleshoot, research root cause, and thoroughly resolve defects
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.
Find Top Talent
Other jobs you might be interested in
Engineer Jobs in DubaiEngineer Jobs in Abu Dhabi
Engineer Jobs in Sharjah
Show More