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  • Posted: Apr 14, 2026
    Deadline: May 2, 2026
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  • Sahara Group is a leading privately owned Power, Energy, Gas and Infrastructure Conglomerate established in 1996 with operating companies active in the downstream, midstream, upstream, infrastructure and power sectors. Sahara has presence in different locations including Africa, The Caribbean, Asia and Europe. The Group's strategy is to replicate its succe...
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    Data Engineer

    Key Responsibilities

    Data Architecture & Infrastructure

    • Design and implement scalable data pipelines for high-volume transaction systems.
    • Build and maintain batch and real-time data ingestion frameworks.
    • Architect a robust data lake environment for analytics and reporting.
    • Optimize database performance for financial-grade accuracy and uptime.
    • Ensure the integrity and reconciliation of payment and utility transaction data.
    • Design schemas that are optimized for TPV, revenue recognition, settlement tracking, and partner reporting.
    • Implement monitoring systems for anomaly detection and transaction inconsistencies.

    Analytics & Governance

    • Build reconciliation frameworks across payment processors, wallets, and settlement reports to ensure financial accuracy.
    • Enable BI dashboards for executive, product, performance analytics, and operations teams.
    • Enable lending and risk modeling with structured, clean datasets.
    • Implement data security, encryption, and access controls.
    • Ensure compliance with FinTech and data protection regulations.
    • Maintain audit logs and lineage tracking for financial transparency.

    Collaboration

    • Work closely with product, engineering, finance, and risk teams.
    • Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
    • Support experimentation frameworks for growth and product activation.

    Technical Requirements

    • 3 – 6+ years of experience in data engineering or backend data infrastructure.
    • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
    • Experience with ETL/ELT tools and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow or equivalent).
    • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
    • Familiarity with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, PostgreSQL).
    • Strong understanding of database optimization, indexing, and partitioning.

    Experience & Key Competencies

    • Experience in FinTech, ledger-based architectures, payments, lending, or energy-tech environments.
    • Experience with modern data stack tools such as dbt, Airflow, Dagster, or similar orchestration frameworks.
    • Familiarity with streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, PubSub).
    • Exposure to fraud detection or risk analytics datasets 
    • Strong analytical mindset
    • High ownership and execution bias
    • Ability to build for scale, beyond solving immediate problems

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Sahara Group on fa-eugs-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com to apply

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