Xperts: Senior Java Engineer; Data Engineering

Role: Senior Java Engineer (Data Engineering)
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape (Hybrid)
Engagement: Permanent / Full Time Role Overview

Senior Data Engineer required to deliver large-scale data migration and transformation solutions across enterprise platforms.

Blend of hands‑on engineering and technical leadership, working on distributed systems at scale.

• Design and deliver data migration and transformation solutions
• Build scalable batch and streaming pipelines
• Implement data validation, lineage, and testing frameworks
• Ensure monitoring, observability, and performance
• Lead technical design and support delivery
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders

• 8+ years in data or software engineering
• Strong Java expertise (Scala/Python beneficial)
• Experience building large-scale ETL/data pipelines
• Knowledge of distributed systems and cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with Kubernetes / containerised environments
• Solid understanding of data architecture, security, compliance

• Apache Spark / Py Spark
• Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Map Reduce)
• Streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis)
• Modern data formats (Parquet, Avro, Iceberg)
• Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Java | Data Engineering | ETL Pipelines | Spark | Distributed Systems | Cloud | Kubernetes | Data Migration