Junior Data Engineer

About the role

The Junior Data Engineer will join the Decision‑Support and Data Science Division of ESCWA, supporting the development and maintenance of data pipelines, web‑scraping solutions and automated data collection processes for UN‑aligned projects.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for automated data collection, transformation and integration.
• Build and sustain web‑scraping and data extraction tools to gather structured and unstructured data from various sources.
• Implement data validation, cleansing, quality checks and monitoring mechanisms.
• Provide ongoing support, troubleshooting and version control for deployed pipelines and scrapers.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics or a related field.
• Minimum 1 year of professional experience with Python.
• Experience designing and maintaining web‑scraping and automated data extraction solutions.
• Knowledge of data quality assurance and pipeline monitoring.
• Understanding of database design and development using MS SQL.

Required skills

• Python programming
• Web scraping and data extraction
• ETL/ELT pipeline development
• MS SQL relational database
• API integration