Data Engineer

Become a part of the worldwide movement Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)!

The humanitarian and medical organisation, Doctors without borders, opened a Shared IT Service (SITS) centre in Prague in 2019. This centre provides IT support to all interested parties around the world – people sent to missions, operating centres, sections and branch offices.

Providing the best medical care possible in its intervention contexts is a core responsibility for MSF. Despite continuous efforts, ensuring MSF health workers with uneven clinical background provide care that puts the patient at the center and ensures patient safety is a real challenge, especially in remote and scattered small health facilities where delivering sufficient clinical training and supervision is difficult.

To provide the field with insights and data a shared application reporting platform (ShARP) has been created. This is a platform for processing, analyzing and sharing data based on Azure. The main objective of Data Engineer is to build and improve the platform with the goal of providing data and insights to MSF movement globally

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and create Azure Synapse data pipelines and Azure Databricks jobs.
• Ensure database integrity and performance.
• Handle incoming requests for new datasets.
• Provide and maintain tools to support data governance processes.
• Stimulate and support the sharing of best practices across teams.
• Guarantee compliance with security policies and procedures.
• Carry out other relevant duties as required.
• Coordinate test scenarios and environments when needed.
• Optimize queries and workspaces for cost efficiency and speed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and understand business and data requirements.
• Work with local teams to prepare, extract, and transfer CRM and related data into the data warehouse.
• Design and implement a data model that integrates data from multiple CRM systems and other sources.
• Build and maintain a standardized semantic model to support current and future global reporting and analytics needs.

Requirements:

Education & Technical Background

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and database fundamentals.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with big data technologies and cloud platforms (e.g., Apache Spark, Databricks, Microsoft Azure).
• Skilled in designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end data engineering pipelines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities in coding and data.

Project & Process Experience

• Flexible, pro-active and a strong team player and ready to support team members with their needs
• Client-oriented attitude, coupled with genuine interest in advancing our data-driven way of private fundraising in MSF
• Familiarity with development processes: requirements gathering, specifications, implementation, testing, and compliance.
• Experience with data warehouse projects and fundraising data analytics (preferred).
• Prior work in international and multicultural environments.

Language

• Fluent in English.

Adherence to MSF principles
Adherance to MSF Behavioural Commitments

What we can offer you:

• Interesting professional and personal challenge
• Rewarding and meaningful work in a young, dynamic, and rapidly growing truly international humanitarian organization
• Full flexibility and ownership/accountability
• 25 days of holiday per year; 6 sick days per year
• Flexible working hours, working from home
• Possibility to receive the 13th salary (after probation period)
• Meal vouchers
• Cafeteria / Pension scheme
• MultiSport card
• Language courses
• Transportation allowance: 10 CZK/calendar day
• Relocation package for former MSF field employees who change their regular domicile location in order to work in MSF SITS Prague office
• Possibility to go for a "sabbatical leave“ / mission, once per 3 years
• Free refreshment at the workplace
• Dog/baby friendly office, etc.
• Team buildings / family days

Who we are:

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and healthcare exclusion. MSF offers assistance to people in need and irrespective of race, religion, gender, or political affiliation. MSF’s actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence, and neutrality. Over 90% of the organization’s funding comes from individual private donors giving small amounts.

The organisation was founded in 1971 in France by a group of doctors and journalists in the wake of war and famine in Biafra, Nigeria. Their aim was to establish an independent organization that focuses on delivering emergency medicine aid quickly, effectively and impartially. Three hundred volunteers made up the organization when it was founded: doctors, nurses and other staff, including the 13 founding doctors and journalists.

Today, MSF is a worldwide movement of more than 65,000 people working in 21 sections, 12 branch offices, 5 Operational Centres and three supply centres worldwide. There are as many IT departments as sections, and together they support more than 32,000 system users spread over MSF offices and missions across the globe. To gain in efficiency and improve end-user experience, MSF has built its own Shared IT Services (SITS) Centre in Prague.