UNWFP - Beirut - Re-advertising: Database Developer SSA6

Key Responsibilities (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

Under the overall supervision of the head of TEC or designated officer, the incumbent will be responsible for the below activities:

• Support the development and implementation of Lebanon beneficiaries’ standard model in collaboration with country office and field offices focal points and adhere to the best practices of database development standards.
• Follow data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
• Contribute to the documentation of the new standard model implementation and design.
• Assist in transferring the data from the current database to the new standard model.
• Contribute to the plan and deliver continuous improvement to data integration solutions, through the application of data management best practices in combination with data technology.
• Develop and improve ETLs of the new standard model.
• Set up and configure data sanity check and deduplications on the database to ensure data quality

Standard Minimum Qualifications:

Education:  Completion of secondary school education, university degree in Design, Information Systems, Computer Science, or Information Technology.
Experience:  At least five (5) years of experience in building and optimizing data pipelines and data sets.

Languages: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Arabic. Knowledge of French language is an added advantage.

Desired Experiences and Competencies: 

• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Build processes supporting data transformation and data structures
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python.
• Experience with data pipeline and business intelligence tools: E.g.  SSIS
• Experience in git workflow