Overview: 

APEXX is pioneering payment orchestration, transforming the global payments landscape with cutting-edge technology and innovation. As a leader in Fintech, we're committed to excellence, driving forward-thinking solutions that empower businesses worldwide.

As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining our data pipelines and databases as an individual contributor. You will collaborate closely with Business Analysts, and other product stakeholders to ensure data availability, accuracy, and security. This role requires a deep understanding of data engineering principles, exceptional problem-solving skills, and a passion for working in a fast-paced & growing FinTech environment.

About You: 

Innovative Thinker: You thrive on finding creative solutions to complex integration challenges, leveraging your ingenuity to overcome obstacles and drive innovation.

Collaborative Team Player: You excel in collaborative environments, actively contributing your expertise and insights to cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals and objectives.

Continuous Learner: You have a growth mindset and a passion for learning, staying abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in integration engineering and related domains

Adaptable and Resilient: You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, adapting quickly to changing priorities and requirements while maintaining a high level of resilience and composure under pressure.

Problem Solver: You possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to dissect complex issues, identify root causes, and develop practical, effective solutions.

Effective Communicator: You communicate with clarity, precision, and empathy, effectively conveying technical concepts and ideas to diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Pipeline Development: Architect, build, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines, design and implement ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to gather data from various sources and Ensure data quality, integrity, and reliability across the data infrastructure.
  
• Database Management: Develop, manage, and optimize databases and data warehouses, Implement strategies for database performance tuning and storage optimization and apply data security best practices to protect sensitive information.
  
• Collaboration and Support:Collaborate with different stakeholders in the Product and Development team to understand and meet data requirements, provide advanced support for data-related queries and issues and work closely with the engineering team to integrate data solutions into the overall architecture.
  
• Data Governance and Compliance: Implement and enforce data governance policies and procedures, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standard and lead initiatives to improve data quality and governance practices.
  
• Dashboard Management: Building and maintaining various interactive ad hoc dashboards across different environments according to the clients requirements and scheduling the automated generation of reports based on user groups.

Qualifications and Technical Skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
  
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related role.
  
• Proven experience in the fintech or payments domain is highly desirable.
  
• Expert proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g.,MYSQL,PostgreSQL).
  
• Proficiency in Pyspark and Data Warehousing in Snowflake.
  
• Apache Airflow / AWS Glue
  
• Expertise in data visualization tools (e.g., Quicksight , Power BI , Tableau, etc).
  
• Extensive experience with data pipelines and ETL tools (e.g., Apache Nifi, Talend, Apache Airflow).
  
• Strong familiarity and knowledge of Cloud platform AWS and their data services.
  
• Good Programming skills in Python, Specially in designing serverless data pipelines in AWS Lambda.
  
  

Benefits: 

Health: Insurance (Employee, spouse, and two children) optional cover for parents or in laws 

15 personal days per year + Festival holidays. You can also take your birthday off as paid leave, and we offer a paid day off for any charity work you want to participate in.

Enrichment: Learning and development training, with a yearly budget, to strengthen your career and progression, leadership in house training and monthly lunch and learn, where you eat lunch and learn with our guest presenter

Social: Monthly team outings & incentives. Some of our recent ones include- Hackathon, Lunch and Learns and team building games.

About Apexx

APEXX is a dynamic Fintech scale-up founded in 2016 with the goal of creating cutting-edge payment technology. Our vision is to be the payment industry's most merchant-centric provider. Through our platform a merchant can connect via a simple API connection to the world's payment ecosystem, increasing conversion at lower cost and satisfying their entire payments needs. We excel at bringing transparency, efficiency, and competition to the payments market.

The team is incredibly committed and enthusiastic about what we are building - top of the class payments solutions and a valuable business. This is infectious and creates a wonderful office atmosphere. We have a supportive, relaxed yet high-performing, and high trust culture.

To learn more about APEXX and experience the dynamics of being part of our team, feel free to check out the provided media channels below:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apexxglobal/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apexx.global/?hl=en

Careers Site: https://careers.apexx.global/

Main Website: https://apexx.global/

APEXX is an equal opportunities employer committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our employees and eliminating discrimination.

We do not accept speculative CVs or candidate profiles from Recruitment Agencies.