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JAPHTA MALOMA
Lead Data Engineer
Johannesburg
Summary
Knowledgeable IT Lead oversees technology deployment and maintenance. Instructs and leads IT staff members in support of developed solutions. Actively works with management to determine and implement tech needs. Manages technology strategy, training and documentation.
Accomplished Data engineer\Integration Specialist proffering extensive cloud monitoring, deployment and troubleshooting skills. Defined, built and maintained infrastructure using vendor-neutral and platform-specific tools. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Lead Data Engineer/Integration Specialist
Baagi Tech
Johannesburg
05.2019 - Current
- Lead developer of a team of developers and production support doing contract development for Head Office and business units, projects take about 2 months to a year of development and testing
- Travel to business units to interact directly with business for requirement gathering/ delivering the project and to handover working solutions
- Cooperated fully with product owners and enterprise architects to understand requirements
- Developed enterprise applications and designed processes for transformation and data management from company-wide databases
- Generated reports, maintaining dimensional as well as relational data structures and managing operational data store and data warehouse
- Created data models and mapped content storage pathways to facilitate easy access and support troubleshooting access issues
- Built data cubes, data marts and queries, maintaining every aspect of storage and translation
- Create automated solutions to integrate multiple sources of data such as SAP, SharePoint Online, Excel, Rest API and other sources using integration tools
- Migrate on-premises data to Microsoft azure cloud storage and schedule processes to transfer data at required frequencies
- Migrate on-premises data to AWS s3 storage and redshift schedule processes to transfer data at required frequencies
- Re-Engineer SSIS ETL to Glue ETL connecting to on-prem data sources, and re-create SQL queries in Redshift
Senior BI Specialist
African Bank
Johannesburg
10.2015 - 04.2019
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
- Designed and developed customized extract, transform and load (ETL) applications per client specifications.
- Developed polished visualizations to share results of data analysis
- Planned website development, converting mockups into usable web presence with HTML, JavaScript, AJAX and JSON coding.
- Implemented content management and security resource tutorials to assist end-user training.
Systems Developer
Sanlam
Johannesburg
12.2014 - 09.2015
- Oversaw continuous development of tools and workflows to manage critical business processes.
- Worked with third-party vendor support to address product-related issues.
- Designed, documented and implemented database solutions to support web applications.
- Modified existing Web applications (Finance) to correct coding errors, upgrade interfaces and improve overall performance.
- Designed and developed customized extract, transform and load (ETL) applications per client specifications.
- Designed, implemented and monitored web pages, plugins and functionality for continuous improvement.
BI ANALYST
AFRICAN BANK
09.2014 - 01.2014
- Integrated BI assets into customer relationship management tasks, improving service personnel's available intelligence.
- Optimized BI reporting capabilities for secure server environment.
- Collected data from wide-ranging sources.
- Developed intelligence-sharing dashboards, providing company-wide access to collected data.
- Reviewed files, records and other documents to obtain business information and key data informing responses to development requests.
Education
Honours in Informatics - Information Science
UNISA
Pretoria 01.2023 - Current
BCom - IT Management
Mancosa SA
Johannesburg 01.2015 - 04.2019
No Degree - IT Specialist
Torque-IT
Johannesburg 01.2007 - 12.2009
Skills
Mobile & Cloud SolutionsProject ManagementDevOps, Jira, TeamsAgile MethodologiesObject-Oriented MethodologiesChange ManagementData Architect
SaaS & IaaS Technologies (eg, Azure)
Data ManagementC#, Python, Net
Azure Data Pipelines (ADF)
AWS Data Pipeline (Glue)
Rest API/Soap API
AWS Redshift
Certification
MCSA and MCSD Certified ITTC 2014
Software
Python
NET
SQL
Power BI
SSIS,SSRS,SSAS
Additional Information
Available on request
Timeline
Honours in Informatics - Information Science
UNISA
01.2023 - Current
Lead Data Engineer/Integration Specialist
Baagi Tech
05.2019 - Current
Senior BI Specialist
African Bank
10.2015 - 04.2019
BCom - IT Management
Mancosa SA
01.2015 - 04.2019
Systems Developer
Sanlam
12.2014 - 09.2015
BI ANALYST
AFRICAN BANK
09.2014 - 01.2014
No Degree - IT Specialist
Torque-IT
01.2007 - 12.2009