Data Engineer & Analyst (Spatial Data)JohannesburgPermanentAn entrepreneurial, and forward-thinking company specialises in utilizing geospatial data and technologies to help clients enhance their operational efficiencies and increase profitability. They offer tailored data, insights, and innovative products across various industries, aiming to convert raw data into practical business insights. With expertise spanning over two decades in spatial and telematics domains, they serve sectors like fleet management, logistics, retail, advertising, the public sector, and more. They value partnerships highly, focusing on collaborative relationships to advance the field of geospatial intelligence.The company has a number of products and companies under its umbrella, creating and building new products and solutions. The team would like to attract energetic, passionate individuals committed to growing with them.You will join an R&D team and work with them to design new spatial and data related products and services with and for their clients. This is an unusual position and will take a product minded individual with varied skills who is passionate about problem solving, solutioning.It is required that the individual have some background, studies or working experience in GIS technologies.REQUIREMENTSComputer Science, Informatics, IT, Stats Degree/ Diploma Min 2-4 years experienceFamiliarity with LinuxCloud services (Azure, GCP, Huawei)Skills that support the environment, the team primarily works within: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL esp PostgreSQL or PostgreSQL compatiblePlatforms we use: Jupyter family of tools; PowerBI; Google Big QueryGeospatial knowledge Client management skills you will be dealing with our clientsPortfolio of data science projects that you have worked on and can describeExposure to ML techniques and toolkits desirableAdvanced Geospatial Analytics skills, especially utilising SQL Experience in designing data pipelines and data analytics projects.Working in the product space building and developing products you will need to be able to look for opportunities to simplify product & technical design as well as understand spatial-temporal analytics problems of specific domains such as retail and othersThese Skills would be a major advantage:Text processing especially similarity matching,Spatial-temporal reasoningCuriosity and sense of experimentationGeospatial SQLPySAL familiarity - geospatial statistics techniquesGeospatial AIAI/MLModel selectionRAG, Vector databases, generation of embeddingsAbility to design and test appropriate ML models, apps and deployments#J-18808-Ljbffr