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Senior Data Engineer


Job Location:

Pretoria - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 24 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 21 August 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

Senior Data Engineer

Build the backbone of a modern data platform

Are you a hands-on Data Engineering leader who thrives on building scalable production-grade data platforms Do you enjoy owning solutions end-to-endfrom architecture to deploymentwhile mentoring others and shaping best practices

Were looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in designing and scaling a next-generation data platform that powers analytics data science and business-critical insights.


Why this role

This isnt just another pipeline-building role. Youll:

  • Architect and own end-to-end data solutions
  • Work on modern lakehouse/warehouse architectures
  • Influence engineering standards governance and observability
  • Mentor a growing team and shape the future of data engineering

What youll be doing
Architecture & Technical Leadership
  • Design scalable secure and high-performance data platforms
  • Define and enforce best practices across data modelling CI/CD and IaC
  • Lead development of batch and real-time pipelines
  • Drive standards for data quality governance and observability
Data Engineering & Platform Delivery
  • Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines and workflows
  • Integrate data from APIs third-party systems and streaming platforms
  • Manage orchestration scheduling and performance tuning
  • Deliver curated datasets for analytics and BI use cases
Quality Operations & Ownership
  • Ensure data reliability through validation reconciliation and testing
  • Own production pipelines: monitoring alerting and incident resolution
  • Implement observability by design (logs lineage metrics)
  • Support automated deployments and post-release validation
Leadership & Collaboration
  • entor and guide data engineers across the team
  • Collaborate with Data Scientists Analysts Product & Engineering teams
  • Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
  • Contribute to hiring standards and continuous improvement


Requirements
Must-have
  • 10 years in Data Engineering or similar
  • Strong SQL expertise
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric Data Factory and Power BI
  • Proven track record building scalable production-grade pipelines
  • Solid understanding of data modelling and architecture patterns
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure)
  • Strong system design and problem-solving ability
Nice to have
  • Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka Kinesis Pub/Sub)
  • Infrastructure as Code experience
  • Exposure to ML/data science pipelines
  • Knowledge of data governance security and compliance
  • Prior leadership or mentoring experience



Required Skills:

SQL ETL/ELT Data Modelling Cloud Data Platforms Orchestration & Workflow Management Data Engineering Tools Data Quality