sfiso

sfiso

Data Engineer
South Africa
Zulu, English, Xhosa

About Me

In my current role as a Data Engineer at FNB Connect and Service, I am responsible for developing robust data pipelines, integrating data from multiple sources, automating tasks for operational analytics, and ensuring da…

Experience

Data Engineer

FNB CONNECT AND SERVICE
Nov 2024 - Present · 1 year 8 months

Build unit and systems tests to ensure successful delivery of components into production.
Manage the user acceptance testing UAT and associated signoff through change control.
Acquire and collect data via ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) processes from source systems into the Reservoir and Enterprise Data warehouse, adhering to the appropriate data platform standards.
Integrate data from multiple sources through the enterprise data platform architecture to meet the business objective.
Develop and maintain the physical data marts and databases.
Automate tasks related to data pipelines for the deployment of operational analytics.
Prepare and provision data for advanced analytical modelling by data scientists (as and when applicable).
Perform data quality assessments and introduce monitors and alerts to ensure data quality is maintained throughout all managed systems.

Data Engineer

FNB CONNECT AND SERVICE
Nov 2024 - Present · 1 year 8 months

• Build unit and systems tests to ensure successful delivery of components into production.
• Manage the user acceptance testing UAT and associated signoff through change control.
• Acquire and collect data via ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) processes from source systems into the Reservoir and Enterprise Data warehouse, adhering to the appropriate data platform standards.
• Integrate data from multiple sources through the enterprise data platform architecture to meet the business objective.
• Develop and maintain the physical data marts and databases.
• Automate tasks related to data pipelines for the deployment of operational analytics.
• Prepare and provision data for advanced analytical modelling by data scientists (as and when applicable).
• Perform data quality assessments and introduce monitors and alerts to ensure data quality is maintained throughout all managed systems.

Data Scientist

FNB COMMERCIAL
Apr 2021 - Oct 2024 · 3 years 6 months

Identify process improvements for Cost Saving, Revenue Generation or Efficiency improvements for the business.
Expectation management at senior levels/stakeholder management.
Develop objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SMEs, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to Business requirements.
Partnering with Business to research information delivery methods / interfaces.

Data Scientist

FNB COMMERCIAL
Apr 2021 - Oct 2024 · 3 years 5 months

• Identify process improvements for Cost Saving, Revenue Generation or Efficiency improvements for the business
• Expectation management at senior levels/stakeholder management.
• Develop objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SMEs, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to Business requirements.
• Partnering with Business to research information delivery methods / interfaces.

Data Scientist

WI GROUP/YOYO WALLET
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021 · 3 months

Interpreting business requirements and designing data presentation mechanisms to deliver usable and automated reports.
Collecting data through means such as analysing business results or by setting up and managing new studies.
Transferring data into a new format to make it more appropriate for analysis.
Creating new, experimental frameworks to collect data.

Data Scientist

YOYO WALLET
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021 · 2 months

• Interpreting business requirements and designing data presentation mechanisms to deliver usable and automated reports
• Collecting data through means such as analysing business results or by setting up and managing new studies
• Transferring data into a new format to make it more appropriate for analysis
• Creating new, experimental frameworks to collect data

Business Intelligence Analyst/Data Scientist

BROADREACH HEALTHCARE SA
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020 · 2 years

Use of business intelligence tools such as Power BI, SQL, Azure, R, and Python.
Use of statistical techniques and data modeling.
Data mining principles, predictive analytics, mapping, collecting data from multiple sources and cloud-based data sources.
Understanding of and experience using analytical concepts such as development, designing, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations for business.
Examine, interpret, and report results of analytical initiatives to stakeholders across the Commercial and Technology teams.

Business Intelligence Analyst/ Data Scientist

BROADREACH HEALTHCARE SA
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020 · 2 years

• Use of business intelligence tools such as Power BI, SQL, Azure, R, and Python
• Use of statistical techniques and data modeling
• Data mining principles, predictive analytics, mapping, collecting data from multiple sources and cloud-based data sources
• Understanding of and experience using analytical concepts such as development, designing, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations for business
• Examine, interpret, and report results of analytical initiatives to stakeholders across the Commercial and Technology teams

Business Intelligence Developer

INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 year 2 months

• Designing, writing, testing and debugging Business Intelligence/Financial system reports, programs and systems
• Assisting in designing graphical interfaces, forms and application specifications
• Coding and documenting of applications
• Correcting, revising, and improving functional programs to make operating refinements, reduce operating

Business Intelligence Developer

INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 year

Designing, writing, testing and debugging Business Intelligence/Financial system reports, programs and systems.
Assisting in designing graphical interfaces, forms and application specifications.
Coding and documenting of applications.
Correcting, revising, and improving functional programs to make operating refinements, reduce operating.

Junior Full Stack Developer

RENTOKIL INITIAL
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017 · 1 year 1 month

Development and support of Google (incl. mobile) based business applications and tools.
Contribute to the design, planning and delivery of these solutions, including, but not exclusively, data and business requirement gathering, management of project priority lists and plans.
Advanced Web – Design, development (Full Stack) and analytics “cross-platform” design approach.
Creating web/mobile applications with JQuery, JQuery Mobile, HTML5, AngularJS, CSS3, Cloud SQL and JavaScript.

Analyst Programmer

Woolworths
Jan 2016 - May 2016 · 4 months

• Investigate and solve systems issues
• Keep track of incidents and resolutions and ensure users are kept informed on progress
• Liaise with Business teams, project testers and IT teams to identify and resolve issues
• Produce efficient and reliable code, and undertake unit testing to the highest standard

Analyst Programmer

WOOLWORTHS
Jan 2016 - May 2016 · 4 months

Investigate and solve systems issues.
Keep track of incidents and resolutions and ensure users are kept informed on progress.
Liaise with Business teams, project testers and IT teams to identify and resolve issues.
Produce efficient and reliable code, and undertake unit testing to the highest standard.

Tele-Marketing

SGS IN CAPE TOWN
Jun 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 year

Make customer interested in what we are selling and turn that interest into sales.
Make outbound calls or accept incoming calls to describe trainings, explain the benefits of these trainings, and answer customers' questions.
Responsible for sale from start to finish.
Inbound and outbound calls and sending e-mails.

Skills

Big Data Python Data Warehouse Hadoop Scala Spark Apache Hive Apache Pig Amazon Web Services (AWS) Kafka Machine Learning NoSQL Program Development Redshift S3 ETL Data Warehousing Data Marts Data Quality Data Pipelines Unit Testing System Testing UAT Change Control Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Data Factory Azure Data Lake Storage Azure Databricks Azure Stream Analytics Amazon Redshift Docker Jenkins Git Power BI Tableau Ab Initio Teradata Kubernetes Spark ML NLP PyTorch Transformers LangChain Pinecone Hugging Face Scikit-learn Jupyter Notebook NumPy Anaconda Neural Networks HTML CSS JavaScript Java AngularJS jQuery jQuery Mobile Cloud SQL
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