Job Title: Data Lake Implementation Specialist
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
About Nathan Claire Africa:
Nathan Claire Africa is a software and technology solutions firm with offices in Nairobi, Lagos, and London. We specialize in AI-powered performance diagnostics and continuous improvement across people, processes, and technology. The result is that the organization leverages technology to acquire business agility, data-driven decision support and the insights needed to manage growing digital ecosystems, optimize investments and expenditure, and accelerate growth and profitability. Our core value proposition is what we call performance engineering.
Job Description
- We are seeking an experienced Data Lake Implementation Specialist to be responsible for guiding the setup and / or integration of on-premises and cloud data lakes to enable real-time analytics and AI in medium to large digital businesses. Experience in Apache Doris is an added advantage.
Responsibilities:
Data Lake Architecture (Hybrid & Multi-Cloud):
- Designing modern data lakehouses with raw + curated layers, unified batch + streaming ingestion
- Integration with enterprise systems and support for schema-on-read
- Familiarity with lakehouse tools: Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Hudi
Real-Time Data Processing:
- Expertise with streaming architectures: Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming
- Experience with event-driven design, CDC, and real-time ETL tool
- Delivered at least one large-scale Doris-based or comparable OLAP system in production
- Tools: Debezium, StreamSets, Apache NiFi
Cloud & On-Prem Data Services:
- Cloud: AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Kinesis), Azure (ADLS Gen2, Synapse), GCP (BigLake, Dataflow)
- On-prem: Hadoop, Cloudera, MapR, private cloud environments
Data Preparation for AI/ML:
- Building pipelines for feature extraction and versioning datasets
- Integration with feature stores and data quality enforcement
ML Ops Readiness:
- Integration with ML pipelines (Kubeflow, MLflow, SageMaker)
- Model deployment, tuning, and monitoring at scale
Analytics & BI Integration:
- Support for BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and fast querying layers (Presto, Trino)
- Near real-time dashboard enablement
- Governance, Observability, and Security
Enterprise Data Governance:
- Implementing data ownership, lineage, and access policies
- Use of catalogs: Collibra, Apache Atlas, AWS Glue Catalog
Observability & Monitoring:
- End-to-end pipeline visibility, logs, and metrics
- Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Monte Carlo.
Security & Compliance:
- Encryption, tokenization, and data masking
- Adhering to regulations: GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2
Large-Scale Implementations:
- Hands-on delivery of hybrid data lake architectures
- Experience with syncing on-prem and cloud data systems
Cross-Functional Leadership:
- Working with data scientists, product teams, and security teams
- Leading data platform teams or Centers of Excellence
Agility at Scale:
- Agile delivery models for data initiatives
- Delivering data products and ML capabilities incrementally
Requirements
- Candidates should possess a B.Tech degree with 1 year of experience.
- A hands-on and strategic data lake architect/engineer with deep knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud systems, proven experience with streaming data and ML enablement, and the leadership to orchestrate teams around real-time analytics and decision intelligence for digital enterprise scale.
- AWS/GCP/Azure Data Engineer or ML Engineer
- Databricks Lakehouse Accreditation
- CDMP or DAMA certification
- Airflow, dbt, Spark, Flink, Kafka
- Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD
- MLflow, Feature Store, SageMaker, Vertex AI
- Apache Ranger, Atlas, Lake Formation.
Salary
N500,000–N750,000 monthly.
Application Closing Date
1st July, 2025.
How to Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs to: aene@ncgafrica.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.
