Data Engineer (Platform) Jobs – Zembo Motorcycles SMC Limited

Job Title:  Data Engineer (Platform)

Organisation: Zembo Motorcycles SMC Limited

Duty Station:   Kampala, Uganda

About the Company:

Zembo Motorcycles SMC Limited is leading the African transition to electric mobility. Based in Kampala, Uganda, we provide affordable (PayGo) electric two-wheelers to low-income motorcycle-taxi drivers, most known locally as “boda-boda ”drivers. We offer a battery swapping service to our clients, enabling to swap within minutes at any of our stations.

Job Summary:   We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong platform expertise to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines while also managing the infrastructure that supports them. As a small but fast-growing team, we need someone who can wear both hats—developing ETL/ELT pipelines while ensuring our data platform is reliable, cost-efficient, and future-proof.

This role is critical to optimizing our IoT data ingestion, analytics, and business intelligence across the company. If you love working with data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation, this is a great opportunity to make a high-impact contribution.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Data Engineering;

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for analytics, BI, and operational decision-making.
• Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes to move data from IoT devices, APIs, and databases.
• Ensure data integrity, quality, and governance across different sources.
• Improve query performance and optimize data access for BI tools like Metabase.
• Support real-time and batch data processing using tools like Apache Kafka, Spark, or Flink.

Platform Engineering

• Design and manage the data platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Automate data pipeline orchestration using tools like Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
• Own and optimize data storage solutions, including data lakes (S3, Delta Lake) and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, MariaDB).
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to track data pipeline health (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Optimize data workflows through DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Enable self-service data tooling for analysts, engineers, and business teams

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Desired

• Deep knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/ELT patterns.
• Hands-on experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and storage systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.
• Familiarity with streaming data technologies (Kafka, Pulsar, MQTT).
• Ability to work in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with minimal supervision.
• Exposure to BI tools like Metabase, Looker, or Tableau.

Nice to have

• Experience with IoT data pipelines (InfluxDB, MQTT, TimescaleDB).
• Knowledge of data governance, access control, and security best practices.
• Background in monitoring and optimizing high-scale data platforms.

Zembo Electric Motorcycles SMC Ltd offers a fun, supportive work environment and opportunities for continued professional growth within a fast-growing global enterprise. It is an Equal Opportunity  and considers all applicants regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, HIV/Aids, disability, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

How to Apply:

All candidates should apply online at the link below.

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