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RELX INC Senior Data Engineer I in Durban, South Africa
Are you passionate about data? Would you like to use your super-powers for good and making the world a more just place? If so, keep reading and apply!
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (https://www.relx.com/) , a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.About the Role
The Data Engineer is responsible for ensuring the collection, processing and accuracy of our primary data entities such as courts, judges, lawfirms, attorneys and companies. The successful candidate must be able to quickly familiarize themselves with LexisNexis’ diverse data resources and have the ability to leverage the latest in AWS technologies to collect, maintain, and optimize the data platform. The ideal candidate has built and maintained a large-scale data pipeline and data lakes utilizing the AWS cloud platform with relational and non-relational databases.
Responsibilities
Developing innovative strategies and processes for ingesting, managing, and fixing data in bulk
Managing and monitoring various data feeds through the system and handling issues as they arise
Writing queries, functions, and ETL jobs
Consulting on feature design, implementation, and relevant metrics like reliability, completeness, accuracy, and cost
Identifying, analyzing, and resolving problems with other areas of the LexisNexis Data Pipeline
Performing capacity monitoring and short and long-term capacity planning
Scheduling and coordinating database jobs, monitoring progress and completion of all jobs, and taking corrective action as needed
Requirements
5+ years experience with AWS products
Showcase an extensive comprehension of AWS products gained through extensive practical experience
Be intimately familiar with RDS, ElasticSearch, Lambda, S3, EC2s
Have hands-on experience with AWS services such as API Gateway, Elastic MapReduce, ECS, Kinesis, Database Migration Services, Lambda
Hold AWS credentials (an advantage)
Be experienced in DevOps (Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
Be an expert Python programmer (Pandas, Boto3)
Be proficient with query languages (SQL, JSON Parsing, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch)
Have the ability to provide guidance to data scientists, engineers, and other team members
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you
We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Medical Aid
Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
Study Leave
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
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RELX is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
We help scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and insurance companies offer customers lower prices. We save taxpayers and consumers money by preventing fraud and help executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.
In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.