Software Engineer - Lead

The Sr. Analytics Engineer would provide technical expertise in needs identification, data modeling, data movement, and transformation mapping (source to target), automation and testing strategies, translating business needs into technical solutions with adherence to established data guidelines and approaches from a business unit or project perspective.

Understands and leverages best-fit technologies (e.g., traditional star schema structures, cloud, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.) and approaches to address business and environmental challenges.

Provides data understanding and coordinates data-related activities with other data management groups such as master data management, data governance, and metadata management.

Actively participates with other consultants in problem-solving and approach development.

Responsibilities :

Provide a consultative approach with business users, asking questions to understand the business need and deriving the data flow, conceptual, logical, and physical data models based on those needs.

Perform data analysis to validate data models and to confirm the ability to meet business needs.

Assist with and support setting the data architecture direction, ensuring data architecture deliverables are developed, ensuring compliance to standards and guidelines, implementing the data architecture, and supporting technical developers at a project or business unit level.

Coordinate and consult with the Data Architect, project manager, client business staff, client technical staff and project developers in data architecture best practices and anything else that is data related at the project or business unit levels.

Work closely with Business Analysts and Solution Architects to design the data model satisfying the business needs and adhering to Enterprise Architecture.

Coordinate with Data Architects, Program Managers and participate in recurring meetings.

Help and mentor team members to understand the data model and subject areas.

Ensure that the team adheres to best practices and guidelines.

Requirements :

- Strong working knowledge of at least 3 years of Spark, Java/Scala/Pyspark, Kafka, Git, Unix / Linux, and ETL pipeline designing.

- Experience with Spark optimization/tuning/resource allocations

- Excellent understanding of IN memory distributed computing frameworks like Spark and its parameter tuning, writing optimized workflow sequences.

- Experience of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redshift, Bigquery, Cassandra, etc).

- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Data Lake/Blob storage, AWS S3, Google Cloud storage, etc.

- Have a deep understanding of the various stacks and components of the Big Data ecosystem.

- Hands-on experience with Python is a huge plus

About Us

Welthungerhilfe (WHH) is an international aid agency headquartered in Germany with its vision for “Zero Hunger by 2030”, the second sustainable development goal set by the UN. It has thousands of programs fighting hunger in more than 30 countries. (https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/">https://www.welthungerhilfe.org)  (https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org/">https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org).

Child Growth Monitor (CGM) is Welthungerhilfe’s digital innovation project leveraging AI to fight child malnutrition. Around 200 million children around the world are suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition contributes to one-third of deaths of children under the age of five. In the fight against malnutrition, detection is the first important step, but this is not an easy task: Measuring children with traditional methods is still a complex, slow, and expensive task, frequently resulting in poor data and wrong assessments of the child’s health. Early detection of malnutrition becomes the key to initiating treatment, minimizing the risk of complications,

and saving lives by reducing the chances of death to a great extent.

Our solution to measure children replaces hardware (bulky measuring boards and physical scales) with off-the-shelf cell phones and AI. CGM uses augmented reality-enabled smartphones to record 3D scans of children. Artificial Intelligence is used to predict their height, weight, and middle upper-arm circumference needed to know the nutritional status of the children.

What you would do to help us save millions of children's lives

We are looking for you as an experienced Sr Software Engineer who works collaboratively with the dedicated team of tech specialists (AI, ML & Data Scientists) distributed globally have a shared responsibility for ensuring high quality and

Scalable health care product in an agile approach.

This posting concerns a full-time assignment working for Welthungerhilfe’s CGM in a freelance capacity but Full-time employment (payroll) is scheduled for the end of 2022 latest. We are in the process of setting up CGM as a registered social business from mostly January 2023 and moving all the consultants on CGM payrolls.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing features, refinement/improving and implementing the CGM product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• De-bugging of the current issues
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale Mobile app environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.

 Requirements and skills

• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Extensive experience in core Python (3-7yrs)
• Should have worked on Azure or any Cloud and Azure data factory or any similar data platforms
• Experience using Flask/Flutter framework
• Experience working on mobile applications/Web applications (writing flask framework)
• Knowledge of DevOps Pipeline
• Good experience in SQL database
• Working knowledge in Data engineering (ETL pipelines Result Generation Module)
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as Vue JS
• Working knowledge in creating predictive models for AI and ML-based features
• Tech /BE in Computer Science with a total of 7 years of software development/Programming experience.

Desired skills

• Good to have an experience in Kubernetes (opensource system)
• Good to have experience working on healthcare mobile apps (predictive analytics and image diagnostics)
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

Soft/Human Skills

• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

• Complete experience in the Spring Framework
• proficient knowledge of SQL and NoSQL must
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Willingness to own a responsibility
• Ability to work in a team as well as an individual
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain deadlines
• Good to have worked on end to end in projects