Data Engineer (SQL, Python/Pandas) at World Food Programme

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

🚩 Vacancy Announcement n°: JR102385

📢 Job Title: Data Engineer (SQL, Python/Pandas)

📌Type of Contract: Service Contract, SC9

➡️ Unit / Division: Programme / WFP Ukraine

📍 Duty Station: Kyiv

➡️ Duration: 12 months (renewable)

⏰ Closing date: 4th August 2024, midnight (Central European Time)

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do, and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

Why work with us?

The war in Ukraine has had drastic consequences, both for people inside the country and for those around the world dependent on its huge grain supplies. It is inflicting untold suffering on civilians, displace families, and disrupt supply chains and food production. It has caused one of the fastest forced population movements since the Second World War. Close to 6 million Ukrainians are still living as refugees across Europe, and almost 5.1 million are internally displaced. Many have lost their homes and livelihoods. As food production and supply lines are disrupted by fighting, many families in the east and south do not have reliable access to nutritious food.

WFP uses a flexible mix of food and cash assistance to support communities affected by the war wherever they are. This includes working with local partners to distribute food rations in areas near the frontline and providing cash transfers wherever people have access to banks and markets to buy food. Since March 2022, WFP has distributed food and cash assistance equivalent to 2.4 billion meals to families displaced and affected by the war, partnering directly with local responders.

➡️ WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

➡️ WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse and multicultural working environment.

➡️ WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of trainings, accreditation, coaching, mentorship and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

➡️ A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

How can you make a difference?

In this position, you will have to:

• Design, construct, install, test and maintain highly scalable data management systems

• Employ a variety of languages and tools (e.g. scripting languages) to marry systems together

• Research opportunities for data acquisition and new uses for existing data

• Work together with data analyst to model data for staging into a data warehouse and architect data warehouse multidimensional models

• Develop data set processes for data modelling, mining, and production

• Integrate new data management technologies and software engineering tools into existing structures

• Collaborate with data architects, modelers, and IT team members on project goals

• Build data pipelines to collect data and move it into storage

• Prepare the data as part of an ETL or ELT process

• Work with complex technical data stores such as Hadoop, Amazon S3, relational databases, Azure BLOB, Azure Data Lake store, and MS Azure DW

• Stitch data together with scripting languages

• Work with application DBA and modelers to construct data stores

• Ensure that data validation processes, data quality control standards, testing strategy and test plans for data services are applied to applications

• Work with the data assurance and transfer management Leads to refine and tighten the security framework and access control for internal and external information/data sharing

• Work with the data assurance and transfer management Leads to develop governance processes for managing services (version control), support services, service migration, monitoring and evaluation of services

• Document definitions for all new data constructs and document the enhancements in a standard document

• Research new database technologies and recommend solutions in order to improve performance, scalability, & storage

• Prepare data de-duplication, validation, cleansing and transforming

• Prepare analysis and visualization with the most suitable visualization tool

To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have:

Education: Advanced University degree, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.

Experience: At least three (3) years of postgraduate professional experience in data engineering, data analysis with a focus on developing data pipelines.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Experience in Project management to ensure successful delivery of data engineering projects. Ability to engage with senior management and stakeholders
• Strong programming skills in Python/Pandas
• Understanding of versioning tools such as git/Azure and basic CI/CD concepts
• Strong skills in SQL and relational databases
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)

Before you apply…

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

We aim to achieve parity and inclusion in our teams in Ukraine. WFP encourages female candidates and people with disabilities to apply.

WFP is committed to an accessible, inclusive recruitment process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of any disability related reasonable accommodation or accessibility requests you may have. A member of the reasonable accommodation team will contact you to confidentially discuss your needs.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.

How do you apply

To be considered, you are invited to apply via WFP’s recruitment portal.

CV and cover letter must be submitted in English language.

Only those who are short-listed candidates will be contacted for the next steps of our recruitment process.

We also encourage you to create your candidate profile and set up WFP job alerts to learn more about all the opportunities available to join us and make a difference in the lives of the people we serve.

2024-07-23T12:27:13.000 2024-08-04T23:59:59.000 Full time / Повна зайнятість World Food Programme (WFP)