Country
South Africa
City
JOHANNESBURG
Workplace location
JOHANNESBURG-BIERMANN AV(ZAF)
Employer company
TotalEnergies Marketing South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Domain
Information Systems
Type of contract
Fixed term position
Duration of contract
12
Duration unit
Months
Experience
Minimum 3 years

Context & Environment

 Accountabilities:

  • Facilitate the connection, ingestion and archiving of TMSA source data into the TotalEnergies Cloud in a safe, secured and structured manor.
  • Analyse and define data architecture requirements by evaluating business processes and existing data structures and applications.
  • Support the development of Digital projects within TMSA. 
  • Support productionised Digital solutions within TMSA, including assisting with incident resolution and planning future enhancements.
  • Ensure all solutions developed are in compliance with TotalEnergies Company Rules, or otherwise assist in the development of new or modification of existing Company Rules.
  • For all solutions developed, work with IT to ensure compliance with TotalEnergies Security Rules and Guidelines.


Activities

Data Strategy:

  • Design, develop, and implement end-to-end data solutions (storage, integration, processing, access) in AWS or equivalent
  • Architect and support the development of automated data pipelines (ETL, ELT) in conjunction with business stakeholders.
  • Analyse and define data architecture requirements by evaluating business processes and existing data structures and applications.
  • Propose architectures that consider cost/spend in Azure\AWS or equivalent and develop recommendations or plans to right-size data infrastructure
  • Analyse and define data architecture requirements by evaluating business processes and existing data structures and applications.
  • Design and implement data models to document the data architecture in its AS-IS and TO-BE states.
  •  Assist in the definition of a Cloud Data strategy, solutions and roadmaps, ensuring they meet both business and performance goals in line with the TotalEnergies IT strategy and Data Governance guidelines. 
  • Identification of new digital techniques, tools or best practices and assist in integrating them into the Digital & Data department’s ways of working.

Functional Expertise:

  • Provide functional expertise and guidance around leveraging the capabilities of cloud platforms to business stakeholders. 
  • Act as liaison between business key users and the IT Department - for investigating, analyzing, and implementing cloud-based solutions (including documenting, data mapping, analytical processing and source system modifications).

Solution Development:

  • Assist in the development of end-to-end solutions for new and existing digital projects.
  • Run proof of concepts and investigate opportunities for use of innovative cloud solutions.

Solution Support:

  • Support incident resolution on productionised digital solutions.
  • Responsible for ensuring the production services are optimally configured and aligned to best practices to protect production data. 
  • Support the development of automated data pipelines (ETL, ELT) in conjunction with business stakeholders and IT teams.
  • Work in close collaboration with IT to define and develop the industrialised digital support process which will be managed and administered by IT.

 

Candidate Profile

Qualifications/Experience required

Required: 

  • A numerate honours degree (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering).
  • Ability to develop technical solutions and functional specifications based on business requirements. 
  • Knowledge of leading technologies including:
    • Enterprise data modelling
    • Data ingestion and integration 
    • Data storage and security 
    • Data processing and distributed computing
    • Software engineering principles and application architectures
    • Hardware infrastructure and networking
  • Extensive experience working with relational databases, including database administration.
  • Proven production experience and best practice knowledge of cloud platforms, features, and capabilities (Microsoft Azure & AWS components) 
  • Experience integrating cloud services to securely work with on premise data sources.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication skills, written and verbal combined with effective technical presentation skills.
  • Organised, methodical and able to multi-task whilst working under tight deadlines.


Preferred: 

  • A thorough understanding of the Dowstream industry and knowledge of Downstream companies main strategic drivers.
  • Knowledge of multi-tier, high availability, cloud and on-premise data engineering solutions in a complex multi-site enterprise environment.
  • Experience of working within the Microsoft Azure \ AWS tech stack.
  • Experience of working within a dynamic Agile based team. 
  • English language proficiency

Additional Information

Job dimensions

  • Responsible for the development and delivery of cloud based data engineering solutions.
  • Provide support & guidance on data and technology subjects for the Digital development squads across the business
  • Centre of Excellence for cloud development within TMSA
  • Act as Chapter Lead for the Data Engineer to ensure best practice for data architecture is applied consistently across TMSA
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