Officer – Data Integration

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is the National Revenue Collection Agency for the Government of Kenya. Our Vision is: “An agile tax and customs revenue agency facilitating voluntary compliance for all.”

The Authority is seeking to recruit results-oriented, self-driven, dynamic, and experienced individuals with high integrity to fill the following positions:

Officer – Data Integration

Terms of Service:  Three (3) years, Fixed Term Contract

Remuneration: As per KRA salary structure

Job Summary.

The jobholder will be responsible for supporting the implementation of the Authority’s strategies and policies for 3^rd party data management.

Duties and responsibilities

• Consolidate and integrate data from 3^rd party systems and combine into a single and coherent data set.
• Initiate data transformation by converting 3^rd party data into a format that is compatible with the internal system while applying necessary transformations like cleaning, enriching, and structuring.
• Manage data pipeline through building and maintaining pipelines that automate the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of 3^rd party data.
• Validate and clean data to assure quality by ensuring that the integrated data is accurate, consistent, and of high quality.
• Liaise and request data from 3^rd party’s and integrate these data from multiple sources, ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
• Design, implement, and optimize scalable and efficient data pipelines for ingestion, processing, and storage.
• Develop and maintain data architectures that support business intelligence, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) initiatives.
• Monitor and enhance performance of data systems to ensure minimal downtime and optimal speed.
• Implement processes that are meant to verify data integrity and consistency throughout the pipeline.
• Work with other stakeholders, understand requirements and deliver appropriate solutions.
• Document data engineering processes, workflows, and technical specifications for reference and future updates.
• Implement data security measures and ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements.

Person specifications

For appointment to this job, the candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field
• Proficient in Computer Applications.
• One (1) year of relevant work experience.

Technical/Functional competencies

• Show merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams.