Software Engineer at MECS (Pty) Ltd

Responsibilities:

• Requirements, design, development, testing and documentation of new and legacy data ingestion, integration, processing, and storage software to meet the requirements of the company’s IoT Platform Solution.
• Build data pipelines for ingesting data from various mining equipment and devices such as gas detection instruments, collision awareness systems, environmental sensors.
• Build data pipelines for ingesting data from various external systems such as ERP, TnA, and Asset Management Software.
• Maintain interface definitions and data dictionaries for each connectivity solution.
• Define the requirements, specify the architecture and design, develop, test, document and maintain software for integrating data from multiple sources.
• Manage data ontologies for modelling digital twins in SmartMine to automatically create required configurations necessary for software services, devices, site infrastructure, etc.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer/software engineering, computer science
• Masters or doctoral level degree (advantageous)
• 2-5 years’ experience in computer science, software, or computer engineering, applied math, physics, statistics, or related fields.
• Experience with wireless and network communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, GSM, LoRaWAN, Bluetooth, TCP/IP.
• 2-5 years’ experience with data lake and warehousing solutions.
• 2-5 years’ experience with either Python, Java, C++, C#, Sparql, SQL databases.
• 2-5 years’ experience with either Apache Kafka (producers/consumers/connectors), Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, Apache ActiveMQ, MQTT, Modbus, REST API.