The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is seeking a Data Engineer (P3) to join their team. The United Nations Environment Programme is the leading global environmental authority that sets the world's environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the environment.
Role Overview
This role involves designing, building, and maintaining secure, performant, and reusable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes to ingest, clean, transform, and deliver environmental, administrative, and partner data from multiple internal and external sources into UNEP's corporate data platforms and the World Environment Situation Room.
Key Responsibilities
Data Pipeline and Integration Engineering
- Design, build and maintain secure, performant and reusable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes to ingest, clean, transform and deliver environmental, administrative and partner data from multiple internal and external sources (APIs, databases, flat files, EO feeds) into UNEP's corporate data platforms and the World Environment Situation Room.
- Implement internal process improvements: automate manual ingestion, optimize data delivery, re-design data architectures for greater scalability, observability and cost efficiency.
- Develop and maintain data catalogues, metadata and lineage that enable users to discover and understand available datasets and ensure compliance with UNEP's data governance policies.
- Apply infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices (e.g. Git-based workflows, automated tests, containerization) in the deployment of data pipelines across development, test and production environments.
Platform Operations and Quality
- Provide technical support to programme units to onboard new data sources, improve data flows and use self-service analytics safely.
- Participate in agile ceremonies, technical reviews and UNEP-wide digital communities of practice to share good practices in data engineering and DevOps.
- Perform other duties as may be required.
Qualifications and Experience
Education
- Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in computer science, information systems, data management, engineering or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Work Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in data engineering, data integration, data management or related area is required.
- Experience building and operating data pipelines from multiple sources, using ETL/ELT tools, is required.
- Experience with database programming languages (SQL) and at least one high-level programming language used in data engineering (such as Python) is required.
- Experience with version control and CI/CD toolchains (e.g. Git, GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps) for deploying data workflows is required.
- Experience with cloud or hybrid data infrastructure and with the deployment of data solutions in containerized environments is desirable.
- Experience working in or with UN entities, international organizations or other large, distributed organizations is desirable.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the United Nations careers portal. You can access the application link by clicking the "Apply" button which will redirect you to the official recruitment page at careers.un.org.
