Director of Platform and Data

Salary, Location & Core Benefits:

Location:

Pretoria (Hybrid). Industry: Medical Devices / Health Tech. Experience Level: Manager.

You’ll join a fast‑growing Health Tech organisation building life‑changing products that blend medical devices, cloud platforms, and data‑driven insights. The engineering culture is modern, collaborative, and impact‑focused, the kind where you get to shape infrastructure, own architecture decisions, and influence the future of their digital ecosystem. If you want to work at the intersection of healthcare + cloud + data, with real‑world impact, this is the one.

You're the technical leader owning everything cloud, data platform, Dev Ops, and security. Your mission: keep the AWS ecosystem stable, scalable, compliant and evolving fast. You'll spend your days:

• Designing high‑availability AWS architectures (Terraform / CDK)
• Leading cloud modernization and migrations to EKS / ECS / Lambda
• Owning the Amazon Connect environment and integrations
• Driving Dev Ops maturity and automated delivery pipelines
• Leading Master Data Management and Data Catalog initiatives
• Governing data quality, lineage, and "golden record" frameworks
• Implementing event‑driven architectures (SNS / SQS / Kinesis)
• Enforcing HIPAA / GDPR‑aligned security and data protection
• Managing cloud costs, tagging strategies, and optimisation
• Overseeing cloud security tools (Guard Duty, WAF, Security Hub)
• Mentoring technical teams and setting architectural standards

You’ll shine here if you:

• Have 10+ years in cloud engineering and 3+ years leading teams
• Hold a degree in Computer Science / Engineering (Honours/Certs = bonus)
• Are fluent in AWS data and compute services (Glue, S3, Lambda, Athena, Step Functions)
• Are comfortable with SQL + No
  
  SQL (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, Dynamo
  
  DB)
• Have experience with MDM, "golden record" design, and Data Catalog governance
• Strong Python skills (PySpark especially for AWS Glue)
• Strong knowledge of data modelling, schema design, and optimisation
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform / CDK)
• Comfortable leading cloud architecture, Dev Ops practices, and AIOps tooling
• Security‑first mindset with proven AWS security experience
• Can translate technical architecture into clear, business‑friendly language
• Are curious, methodical, and calm under pressure and you care deeply about secure, scalable, elegant systems.