Senior Data Engineer

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 20/07/2026

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing,and maintaining scalable data solutions that transform raw data into trusted,accessible, and actionable information. This role focuses on building and optimizing data pipelines, data architectures, and data platforms that supportanalytics, business intelligence, machine learning, and operational reporting requirements.

The successful candidate will work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, Architects, and Business Stakeholders to design and implement modern data engineering solutions that enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures to support business and analytical requirements.
• Build and optimize databases, data warehouses, and datalakes for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Extract, transform, and load (ETL/ELT) data from a varietyof structured and unstructured sources.
• Develop and implement automated processes for data acquisition, integration, cleansing, transformation, and storage.
• Define and implement data storage solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Create and maintain physical and logical data models tosupport enterprise data initiatives.
• Support data migrations across multiple databases, servers,and cloud platforms.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, integrity, and governanceacross all data assets.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Analytics teams tooperationalize machine learning models.
• Develop data pipelines that support predictive analytics,artificial intelligence, and machine learning workloads.
• Deploy machine learning models into production environments.
• Build robust testing frameworks to validate data transformations and model outputs.
• Design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available data platforms.
• Evaluate and recommend data solutions, technologies, andtools to address business requirements.
• Develop databases optimized for analytics, reporting, and advanced data processing.
• Build and manage cloud-based data solutions utilizing moderncloud technologies.

• Perform root-cause analysis and troubleshooting fordata-related issues.
• Design and execute testing scenarios to validate data quality and transformation accuracy.
• Assess, document, and implement changes in accordance with change management processes.
• Ensure release processes, procedures, and documentation are maintained and updated.
• Support configuration management and release management activities.

• Collaborate with business, analytics, and technical teams to improve data accessibility and usability.
• Translate business requirements into technical datasolutions.
• Provide recommendations regarding data architecture,integration, and optimization strategies.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to bothtechnical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong programming skills in Python, Bash, Shell Scripting, Perl
• Advanced SQL development skills, including: SQL Server, MySQL
• Relational database technologies: ETL/ELT processes, Data pipelines, Data warehouses, Data lakes
• Experience working with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and metadatamanagement practices.
• Experience building and maintaining highly available andscalable systems.
• Understanding of cloud platforms such as:
  Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Hadoop, Cassandra, Storm, Similardistributed processing frameworks

• Working knowledge of
  Power BI
  fordashboards, reports, and analytical solutions.
• Understanding of Data visualization, Data virtualization, Augmentedanalytics, Business intelligence solutions.

• 8+ years Proven experience in a Data Engineering role withina fast-paced technology environment.
• Matric and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science,Information Technology
• Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
• Professional data and analytics certifications.
• Experience developing modern data and analytics platforms that deliver actionable insights from large and complex datasets.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python development.
• Experience designing and supporting ETL/ELT frameworks anddata integration solutions.
• Experience working with SQL Server, MySQL, and enterprisedatabase solutions.
• Experience with cloud technologies, including SaaS, PaaS,and IaaS environments.
• Experience with automation, scripting, and data processorchestration.
• Experience building secure, scalable, resilient, and highlyavailable data platforms.
• Experience supporting machine learning and advancedanalytics initiatives.
• Experience with big data technologies and distributed computing environments.