Data Engineer

Technology
Lagos State
October 22, 2025
Full Time

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Job Description

At HRD Solutions, we provide performance focused support to businesses in the areas of business strategy, organizational design and Human Resource Consulting.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

  • To design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance ETL/ELT data pipelines for reporting, business intelligence, and machine learning initiatives
  • The role is critical for ensuring the quality, lineage, and governance of all critical data assets.

Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize data pipelines using tools like Airflow/Prefect to ingest data from core banking, payment, and third-party sources.
  • Design and implement dimensional and denormalized data models within the Data Warehouse (e.g., Postgres/Oracle/BigQuery).
  • Utilize streaming technologies like Kafka and transformation tools like DBT to process data in real-time or near real-time.
  • Implement data quality checks and maintain data lineage documentation for governance.
  • Leverage Python and SQL extensively for scripting, data manipulation, and pipeline development.

Key Performance Indicators
KPI Area:

  • Data Pipeline Reliability
  • Data Freshness & Delivery
  • Efficiency

Measure:

  • Pipeline SLA Adherence (Uptime) & Percentage of automated tests (e.g., dbt tests).
  • Mean Latency for critical reports/data sets
  • Data Warehouse query run time (p95).

Target:

  • >99.9% Uptime, 90% of Critical Data Models Tested.
  • <1 hour for batch, <5 seconds for streaming data
  • Reduced by 20% QoQ.

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree or Higher National Diploma from any Approved University or Polytechnic.
  • Relevant certifications for DBA are an added advantage
  • Experience: 4 – 6 years of hands-on experience in full-stack development.
  • Specific Experience: Prior experience in banking, fintech, or other financial services environments is highly desirable.

Knowledge:

  • Warehousing principles, Data Governance frameworks, Dimensional Modelling, Kafka/Stream processing, Data Quality

Skills / Competencies:

  • Python, Advanced SQL, ETL/ELT tools (Airflow/Prefect), Postgres/Oracle/BigQuery, DBT, APIs, Git, CI/CD

Salary
Open to discussion.

Application Closing Date
24th October, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should please send their application to: hrdsolutionsnig@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

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