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Giga Principal Data Engineer

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Duration: 12 months

Application Deadline: 19 April 2023, Central European Time

Link to Apply via UNICEF Portal

Summary

We are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. As a senior technical member, the candidate will contribute to product strategy and help develop technical and data teams of Giga’s products.

Your main responsibilities will be…
  • Architect and manage technically robust, resilient and scalable DataOps platform – a set of synced tools to maintain sanity and consistency across the entire data lifecycle of ingestion, transformation, storage, access and sharing in an automated manner.
  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, analysts and engineers to estimate technical feasibility of their respective products/projects and to translate products specifications into technical architecture flows and roadmaps.
  • Architect and manage data workflows and tech stack of Giga’s products.
  • Build proof of concept products or mockups for product market testing.
  • Guide and support vendors and partners in building products.
  • Build key data pipelines and workflows prototypes for Giga’s flagship products like DataOps and ML model for school detection.
  • You set up the data engineering culture and best practices and champion their adoption at the same time.
To qualify for this position, you will have…
  • University degree in Computer Science or similar field.
  • At least five years of relevant work experience in building and managing open-source data products.
  • Deep understanding & expertise in building and managing DataOps Platforms – data pipelines, ingestion, storage, data processing, and data governance.
  • Experience with open-source data engineering and governance technologies like Airflow or any other major orchestration tool, Python, Apache Atlas or DataHub, Apache Superset, Kubernetes clusters, Great Expectations package.
  • Strong knowledge of ML lifecycle with MLOps.
  • Experience on functional and technical requirements gathering
  • Experience using agile methodology and use of software ticketing systems (Jira, Github)
  • Experience with git-based repositories.
  • Experience on implementing automated testing (QA) and continuous integration with systems.
  • Excellent leadership skills to mentor engineers.
  • Active open-source contributions and have a good understanding of open-source DataOps tools & ecosystem.
  • Experience with JavaScript and JS frameworks is a plus.
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
  • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
About Our Team

We are a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, finance specialists, data scientists, policy experts, and much more. Our team is a distributed workforce and plans to remain distributed into the foreseeable future. We are growing fast. Our team has grown by over 400% in the last 6 months as we rapidly scale to meet our stated mission.

About Giga

Giga is a joint initiative of UNICEF and ITU to connect every school in the world to the Internet by 2030. Working with corporate and non-profit partners, Giga maps schools’ Internet access in real time, creates models for innovative financing, and supports governments contracting for connectivity. It is part of ITU’s Partner2 Connect Coalition, UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative, and the UN Secretary General’s Common Agenda and Roadmap for Digital Cooperation 

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About UNICEF

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up. 

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives. 

About ITU

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), driving innovation in ICTs together with 193 Member States and a membership of over 900 companies, universities, and international and regional organizations.

Payment details and further considerations

  • Consultants are paid monthly 
  • Consultants are responsible for their own health and travel insurance 
  • Consultant is eligible for standard budget allowances for all work-related travel