Simiyu martin

Senior Data Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Nairobi, Kenya

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Data EngineeringPower BIData AnalysisPostgreSQLMySQLMicrosoft SQL ServerDatabricksSQL databases

Languages

English (Fluent)Swahili (Fluent)French

About me

Intro

Senior Data Engineer with 10+ years expertise in BI solutions and data systems for global NGOs. Proven track record building enterprise-level dashboards, data warehouses, and ETL pipelines using Azure, Power BI, and SQL Server. Specialized in transforming complex healthcare and humanitarian data into actionable insights that drive organizational decisions.

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Work experience

Senior Data Engineer

VillageReach

Jul 2024 - Jul 2025

1 year 1 month

Nairobi, Kenya

Senior Solutions Developer-Business Intelligence

Save the Children International

Jul 2022 - Jul 2024

2 years 1 month

Skills: Azure Data Factory · Azure Data Lake · Azure Databricks · Business Intelligence (BI) · Data Analysis · Data Engineering · Data Modeling · Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) · Databases · Microsoft SQL Server · Power BI · SQL Sever Reporting Services (SSRS) · Transact-SQL (T-SQL)

Senior Engineer Data and Visualization

Living Goods

Mar 2022 - Jul 2022

5 months

Nairobi, Kenya

Living Goods (LG) – Senior Engineer- Data & Visualization Nairobi, Kenya 03/2022 - Current Living Goods is an international non-government organization (NGO) that aims to save lives at scale by supporting digitally empowered community health workers (CHWs). As a Dashboards Engineer, ● Led the development of enterprise level data systems (Data, Dashboards and Analytics) using various technology and data sources. ● Developed dashboards, automated reports, report templates and presentations by analyzing Living Goods and Partner data. ● Influenced organization decisions through state-of-the-art analytics and helped LG's partners to identify understandable, actionable, data-driven insights and quickly identify key themes from their data. ● Works with other health teams and designers to understand, clarify and document partner data analysis and reporting needs. ● Provides guidance and insight on data visualization options for dashboard design. ● Worked with the support and Monitoring and Evaluation teams to enhance data collection structures and procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems. ● Developed component-based web apps to integrate multiple sources of metrics / tools. ● Devised and implement efficient and secure procedures for data handling and analysis with attention to all technical aspects ● Monitors and analyzes information and data systems and evaluates their performance to discover ways of enhancing them (new technologies, upgrades etc.). ● Ensured digital databases and archives are protected from security breaches and data losses. ● Troubleshot data-related problems and authorizes maintenance or modifications.

Solutions Developer-Business Intelligence

Save the Children International

Feb 2018 - Mar 2022

4 years 2 months

Kenyatta Road, Kenya

Was part of a team of Solutions Developers involved in building, implementing and supporting Business Intelligence solutions within the organization using but not limited to SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS Power BI, Tableau and Excel. This role involved: • Requirement gathering with different stakeholders as well as design and implementation of the requirements gathered. • System integration. • Design and implementing Databases, Data Warehouse, Data marts and Cubes. • Writing and maintaining Stored Procedures Functions and Views. • Writing and maintaining ETL Packages.

Jhpiego

May 2014 - Mar 2018

3 years 11 months

Nairobi, Kenya

Reporting Analyst

Sep 2016 - Mar 2018

1 year 7 months

Nairobi, Kenya

After successfully completing several Microsoft related courses, I advanced to a Reporting Analyst role. I had the following addition responsibilities added to my role • Writing and maintaining Stored Procedures Functions and Views. • Data Warehousing • Writing and maintaining ETL Packages. • Report writing, data visualization and dashboards using different tools like SSRS and Power BI, Tableau and Excel.

Support Analyst

May 2014 - Oct 2016

2 years 6 months

Nairobi, Kenya

● Conducted training in several countries including Kenya, Nepal, Malawi, Myanmar, Tanzania, USA, and Haiti. ● Supported the ERP system on a global scale. ● Developed user guide for the ERP system. ● Translated ERP system menus, notifications, User guide and FAQs from English to French to make the system a multilingual system.

DMS Support Consultant

Impax Business Solutions Limited

Sep 2013 - May 2014

9 months

Nairobi, Kenya

Software Support Engineer

KENEX

Apr 2013 - Aug 2013

5 months

Nairobi, Kenya

Project Assistant/DMS Consultant

Impax Business Solutions Limited

Feb 2012 - Dec 2012

11 months

Nairobi, Kenya


Education

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)

Bachelor's Degree

2008 - 2011

3 years 1 month

Alliance Française de Nairobi

Diploma

2005 - 2006

1 year 1 month

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