
Simiyu martin
Senior Data Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Nairobi, Kenya
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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.
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