Senior Data Engineer Platform Lead

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Pretoria - South Africa

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
profile Experience Required: 10years
Posted on: 1 hour ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer to design build and scale our modern data platform. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who can architect robust data pipelines drive best practices in data engineering and mentor a growing team.

You will play a critical role in enabling analytics data science owning the end to end engineering of data pipelines and data products so that downstream reporting and integrations run on reliable scalable governed and observable data foundations.


Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

  • Design scalable secure high-performance data architectures (lakehouse warehouse hybrid).

  • Lead batch & real-time data pipelines and CI/CD version control and IaC best practices.

  • Ensure data quality governance and observability.

Data Platform & Engineering

  • Build & maintain ETL/ELT workflows optimize queries and manage storage.

  • Integrate data from APIs 3rd-party systems and streaming platforms.

  • Support analytics and BI tooling with curated datasets.

Collaboration & Mentorship

  • Mentor junior/mid-level engineers.

  • Partner with Data Scientists Analysts Product Managers and Engineering teams.

  • Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

SDLC-Aligned Responsibilities

  1. Discovery & Planning Clarify requirements define acceptance criteria break initiatives into implementable slices.

  2. Solution Design & Architecture Own data architecture define standards ensure performance security and monitorability.

  3. Build & Implementation Develop pipelines transformations orchestrations and automation.

  4. Testing & Quality Execute validations reconcile data ensure testability and reduce defects.

  5. Release & Deployment Support automated deployment post-release validation rollback strategies.

  6. Operations & Monitoring Own production pipelines monitor troubleshoot implement preventive controls.

  7. Governance & Documentation Maintain lineage dataset definitions runbooks; enforce security and compliance.

  8. Leadership & Team Enablement Review work set standards coordinate dependencies drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

  • 10 years in data engineering or related field

  • Strong SQL MS Fabric Data Factory Power BI

  • Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure)

  • Modern data stack & orchestration tools experience

  • Strong data modeling system design and production pipeline experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Real-time streaming (Kafka Kinesis Pub/Sub)

  • Infrastructure as Code

  • Machine learning data pipelines

  • Data governance security compliance

  • Team leadership / technical lead experience




Required Skills:

Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership Design scalable secure high-performance data architectures (lakehouse warehouse hybrid). Lead batch & real-time data pipelines and CI/CD version control and IaC best practices. Ensure data quality governance and observability. Data Platform & Engineering Build & maintain ETL/ELT workflows optimize queries and manage storage. Integrate data from APIs 3rd-party systems and streaming platforms. Support analytics and BI tooling with curated datasets. Collaboration & Mentorship Mentor junior/mid-level engineers. Partner with Data Scientists Analysts Product Managers and Engineering teams. Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. SDLC-Aligned Responsibilities Discovery & Planning Clarify requirements define acceptance criteria break initiatives into implementable slices. Solution Design & Architecture Own data architecture define standards ensure performance security and monitorability. Build & Implementation Develop pipelines transformations orchestrations and automation. Testing & Quality Execute validations reconcile data ensure testability and reduce defects. Release & Deployment Support automated deployment post-release validation rollback strategies. Operations & Monitoring Own production pipelines monitor troubleshoot implement preventive controls. Governance & Documentation Maintain lineage dataset definitions runbooks; enforce security and compliance. Leadership & Team Enablement Review work set standards coordinate dependencies drive continuous improvement. Required Qualifications 10 years in data engineering or related field Strong SQL MS Fabric Data Factory Power BI Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure) Modern data stack & orchestration tools experience Strong data modeling system design and production pipeline experience Preferred Qualifications Real-time streaming (Kafka Kinesis Pub/Sub) Infrastructure as Code Machine learning data pipelines Data governance security compliance Team leadership / technical lead experience

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer to design build and scale our modern data platform. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who can architect robust data pipelines drive best practices in data engineering and mentor a growing team.You will play a criti...
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Company Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Key Skills

  • Apache Hive
  • S3
  • Hadoop
  • Redshift
  • Spark
  • AWS
  • Apache Pig
  • NoSQL
  • Big Data
  • Data Warehouse
  • Kafka
  • Scala