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Senior Data Engineer – Jumia (Full Time) at Jumia

What you will be doing

Design and develop pipelines using Python, PySpark, and SQL
Use GitLab as the versioning control system
Utilize S3 buckets for storing large volumes of raw and processed data
Implement and manage complex data workflows using Apache Airflow (MWAA) to orchestrate tasks
Utilize Apache Iceberg (or similar) for managing and organizing data in the data lake
Create and maintain data catalogs using AWS Glue Catalog to organize metadata
AWS Athena for interactive querying
Familiarize with data modeling techniques to support analytics and reporting requirements, as well as knowledge of the data journey stages within a data lake (Medallion Architecture)

What we are looking for

Ideally, a degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
Ideally, +5 years of experience within the Data Engineering landscape
Strong expertise in Python, PySpark, SQL, and the overall AWS data ecosystem
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical users
Proficiency to work with Github
Terraform and CICD pipelines are a great ‘nice-to-have’

What you will be doing:

Managing a team of Commercial Planners and Merchandizers ensuring the team is properly structured, motivated and performing.
Delivering growth, ensuring pro-active turn around plans leveraging on the power of the marketplace, bringing direction, feedback and support to the whole commercial team.
Ensuring all Jumia websites always have for the customer, the right products at the best price, at the right position.
Being within Jumia leadership, an early adopter, a leading ambassador and a relentless missionary of Jumia’s strategic commercial orientation.
Understanding all your market segments, vendors and customers, bringing valuable insights and convictions to support your data driven commercial recommendations.
Building analysis, flying high and diving deep, to ensure smart reporting on the performance of the categories, leading to action oriented recommendations.
Owning the merchandising of our websites, optimizing the placement of our products to deliver on every levels of Jumia’s strategy.
Working seamlessly with all departments (Commercial, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain etc.), enabling decision making, problem solving and ensuring laser focus execution.
Leading massive and complex commercial operations and project management initiatives, coordinating effectively cross functions initiatives.
Constantly working toward improving and simplifying our tools.

What we are looking for:

5+ years experience in Retail / FMCG, 3+ years experience in ecommerce
Graduate of accredited Top Universities, Engineering and Business Schools
Proficiency in MS Office and Google tools
Action oriented and performance driven
Strong inter-personal skills: Convince the people and your team that you are making the right decisions
Great ability to work in a fast paced and competitive environment
Strong analytical and data management skills
Ability to anticipate, structure and organize
Well organized and very detail oriented
Resistant to stress
Ability to find simple solutions to complex problems

What you will be doing:

Pricing Manager:

Owning pricing analytics, at a category-level, to drive insights and actions for the Commercial Team
Reviewing price trends over time across Jumia / Online Competition / Offline Competition, to identify and flag actions to commercial team
Developing Jumia KE pricing strategy by category / event type, to serve as clear guidance for commercial team and support negotiations
Incorporating insights from findings of pricing associates to drive pricing recommendations for Sales Teams on prices
Developing price elasticity data and toolkit at a category-, sub-category and SKU-level to determine highest ROI for internal investments on price

Performance Management:

Delivering on the business plan by leveraging on the power of the marketplace, bringing orientations, feedback, and support to the commercial team.
Leading the commercial plan, taking an active role in the definition and execution of Jumia’s commercial strategy.
Understanding the market, vendors, and customers to bring valuable insights and convictions to support your data driven commercial recommendations.
Monitoring daily performance to achieve present targets and objectives and sitting with account managers to drive performance on a day to day basis.
Building analysis, flying high and diving deep, to ensure smart reporting on the performance across all categories leading to action-oriented recommendations including:

Working seamlessly with all departments (Commercial, Marketing, Onsite, Operations…), enabling decision making, problem solving and ensuring laser focus execution.
Leading massive and complex commercial operations and project management initiatives, coordinating effectively cross-functional initiatives.
Constantly working toward improving and simplifying our tools and processes

What we are looking for:

An ideal candidate would possess significant (2-4 years) experience in category management (retail) with strong analytical skills and a proven track record of impact
Top Business Schools and Universities
Proficiency in MS Office and Excel
Able to analyse large data sets to make strategic decisions