Senior Data Platform Engineer — Full-Stack Development, Big Data and Analytics Engineering

Afghan Wireless is Afghanistan’s first wireless communications company. When we began operations in 2002, we founded Afghanistan’s mobile communications industry by being the first enterprise to offer cell phone service to Afghan consumers and businesses. For well over a decade, Afghan Wireless has driven the rapid growth of our nation’s communications market, through its innovative development and deployment of global-class High-Definition (HD) Voice Communications, Internet, Data, and Mobile Payments Services. More than 6,000 people work for Afghan Wireless, and our Company is directly responsible for the creation of 100,000 jobs throughout Afghanistan.

Key responsibilities

• Own Cedar’s ClickHouse reliability, performance, and recovery readiness, including MergeTree-family schemas, partition/order keys, materialized views, retention, ingestion, SQL tuning, capacity, and tested recovery. Maintain supporting PostgreSQL services where deployed.
• Support MySQL/MariaDB systems and validate migrations to PostgreSQL.
• Manage replication, backup, failover, and tested disaster-recovery procedures.
• Diagnose query, locking, storage, replication, and ingestion bottlenecks.
• Maintain data integrity across large ETL pipelines and transactional integrations.
• Perform migration reconciliation and restore drills against agreed recovery objectives.
• Implement database access controls, monitoring, capacity planning, and audit documentation.
• Lead database incident investigations and train backup administrators.

Application responsibilities and delivery

• Own Cedar-side ETL from receipt of agreed Mediation/DWH outputs through validation, parsing, ClickHouse loading, reconciliation and reporting. Develop Python and Go utilities/adapters; maintain legacy Python/web2py, existing Java integrations, SQL, scheduled jobs and Linux services. Refer upstream mediation defects to the Mediation team.
• Apply analytics engineering to develop Git-controlled ClickHouse SQL transformations, reusable reporting models and Grafana / Apache Superset dashboards. Define dataset grain, joins, dimensions and business metrics; document lineage and validate totals, drilldowns, freshness and access controls. Test model changes and reconcile source-to-report outputs before release.    
• Distinguish legacy and migrated feeds: IN transaction daily/monthly data and production/DR/testbed environments; legacy/cloud MSX filename conventions; Unified IN subscriber dumps and separate Cloud IN ROP/RPP dumps; old/new PS Core PGW/SGW/IGW Main/Sub; Digitalk SBC, SMSC/ASMSC and EFILL. Validate coverage against the datasets and control totals supplied by the Mediation and DWH teams; refer missing or incorrect upstream feeds to those teams.
• Extend database support to MongoDB where deployed or approved. Cover schema definitions, tables, views, functions and procedures where supported, database permissions, partitioning, retention and lineage.
• Use CI/CD, Ansible and Docker/Temporal where deployed. Maintain ETL tests, cron jobs, Linux service definitions, alerts, and tested recovery. Build Python/Go validation and ingestion adapters against Mediation/DWH contracts; handle mapping, deduplication, checkpoints, retries, and schema changes. Maintain ClickHouse drivers/clients and deployed PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Temporal, and Keeper/ZooKeeper dependencies; record versions and compatibility. Protect live processing and reconcile releases; upstream mediation changes remain with the Mediation team.

Cross-team integration and support

• Work with the Mediation team and DWH team only as this role’s cross-team integration interfaces.
• Agree on delivered datasets, schemas, filenames, delivery schedules, control totals, and reconciliation rules.
• Validate their outputs before Cedar processing, document discrepancies, and route upstream mediation corrections to the Mediation team and DWH delivery issues to the DWH team.
• Coordinate controlled redelivery and downstream reprocessing through these two teams. Do not develop, operate, or change upstream mediation systems.

Key outcomes

• Reliable ingestion and reconciliation from mediation feeds to business reports.
• Recoverable databases with tested backups and measured performance.

Analytics delivery and service ownership

• The two engineers share Cedar development, downstream ETL, ClickHouse reliability, and Grafana/Apache Superset reporting. Allocate primary duties by demonstrated strengths, with cross-cover and reviewed deployments. Maintain the full path from received dataset through tested SQL model to dashboard/API and reconciled business output.

Working arrangements and performance

• Protect live services and data through approved access, tested changes, verified rollback and authorised production deployment or maintenance. Escalate unavailable access, unsupported dependencies and material risks; retain evidence of change and recovery outcomes.
• Own assigned deliverables, usable documentation and trained backup cover. Agree priorities, capacity, escalation, planned maintenance and an on-call rota with the reporting manager; no individual is expected to provide continuous coverage alone.
• Agree priorities through the reporting line. Track delivery quality, repeat incidents, change failures, tested recovery, documentation, and backup readiness. Infrastructure ownership remains with the assigned infrastructure team; coordination does not transfer reporting authority.

• Bachelor's degree in Telecom Engineering, IT, Computer Science, or a relevant field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in data engineering and database operations, including 3 years of responsibility for high-availability production data platforms, with demonstrated ClickHouse, Python, ETL, and Go delivery.
• Fluent in one of the local languages (Dari, Pashto) and English (written and spoken).
• Proven hands-on administration of enterprise PostgreSQL environments.
• Production ClickHouse experience, including ingestion, partitioning, performance tuning, and recovery.
• Strong MySQL/MariaDB, advanced SQL, and migration experience.
• Demonstrated delivery of successful restores, failover tests, and data reconciliation.
• Experience supporting large datasets and continuous data ingestion.
• Strong Linux, scripting, and database-security skills.
• Additional telecom CDR, revenue assurance, and fraud-domain experience and advanced infrastructure automation are preferred. Production ClickHouse development, Python/SQL ETL, Go delivery, analytics engineering, and tested recovery are essential capabilities.
• Hands-on ClickHouse production development: design MergeTree-family schemas, partition/order keys and materialised views; implement ingestion, deduplication, retention and SQL transformations; diagnose query, storage and replication issues; validate data integrity and demonstrate backup restoration. Maintain deployed drivers/clients and ClickHouse Keeper/ZooKeeper dependencies with version and compatibility controls.
• Build and troubleshoot Python ETL/validation and Go utilities/adapters with tests, checkpoints, retries, and reconciliation. Maintain existing Python/web2py and Java integrations. Apply SQL analytics engineering to dataset grain, joins, metric definitions, lineage and freshness; deliver reconciled Grafana/Apache Superset dashboards. Maintain assigned JavaScript/TypeScript reporting/API code where deployed, without substituting custom dashboards for the agreed BI tools.
• Proven personal delivery of production systems, code, or configuration changes and incident resolution, supported by clear technical documentation and accountable ownership of outcomes.

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