Data Engineer

About the Unit

About Yara Africa & Asia

Yara Africa & Asia (YAA) produces, sells, distributes and markets fertilizers and industrial products across Asia Pacific and Africa regions, with offices location and operational units in 20 countries. The region employs over 1800 employees and has a long history in the Asian Pacific and African markets, focusing on develop crop nutrition concepts that increase food production and create value to the growers, in particular smallholder farmers, whilst minimizing environmental impact of agricultural activities.

About Yara

Yara grows knowledge to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet. Supporting our vision of a world without hunger and a planet respected, we pursue a strategy of sustainable value growth, promoting climate-friendly crop nutrition and zero-emission energy solutions. Yara’s ambition is focused on growing a nature positive food future that creates value for our customers, shareholders and society at large and delivers a more sustainable food value chain.

To achieve our ambition, we have taken the lead in developing digital farming tools for precision farming and work closely with partners throughout the food value chain to improve the efficiency and sustainability of food production. Through our focus on clean ammonia production, we aim to enable the hydrogen economy, driving a green transition of shipping, fertilizer production and other energy intensive industries.

Founded in 1905 to solve the emerging famine in Europe, Yara has established a unique position as the industry’s only global crop nutrition company. We operate an integrated business model with around 17,000 employees and operations in over 60 countries, with a proven track record of strong returns. In 2021, Yara reported revenues of USD 16.6 billion.

Responsibilities

Participate in designing and building data pipelines to collect, manage and store data across different solutions and tools where the data resides for the YAA teams.
Monitor, manage and maintain data pipelines as part of the day-to-day data operations.
Build data mart tables for various use cases by working with the different data consumers like analysts and product teams.
Implement data quality checks by working with analysts.
Help set up integrations via customer data platforms.

Profile

At least one data science/analysis project completed from start to finish (personal or professional) with at least 3 years of experience in Software Engineering / Database Administrator or at least 3 years of experience in a data engineer or a similar role (Data Analyst, BI Engineer, Analytics Engineer etc.)
Have a growth mindset.
Able to write modular code in one or more programming languages – preferably in Python
Good understanding of data modeling and able to write SQL queries.
Strong personal/professional interest in the LSM segments (developing countries, low-income markets, etc.) and agriculture in general.
Comfortable working with our tools: AWS, Git, Jenkins, Jira, Docker
Aligned with our principles: agile, customer-centric, lean, service-oriented architecture, self-organization, transparency.
Bachelor's Degree is required.

Additional Information

We strive to reflect the diversity in society and encourage all qualified applicants from all background to apply. We are committed to creating a work environment that fits gender equality and allows combining career progress with the needs of a family or other personal circumstances

Why us?

Evolving tech development division of an established agricultural products and services company.
Explore and develop digital, software, hardware products, which provide value to farmers, smallholder communities and the value chain.
Be part of our mission to build sustainable solutions that benefit humanity and the environment.
Full-time, permanent and freelance contract options available with competitive remuneration + benefits.
Support for personal development, training and continuous learning.
Commitment to using new technologies and frameworks, meetups, and knowledge sharing.

Contact details

Recruiter: Cyril Baby

Contact: cyril.baby@yara.com