Senior Data Engineer

Ref: JO-2509-356227

South Africa, Cape Town
Data, AI and Machine Learning, Technology
IT
250 - 999 Employees
ZAR 1,000,000.00 - ZAR 1,200,000.00 per annum

Environment: Hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
Starts: 2025-11-29

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The Role

Join a high-performing Data Engineering team at a key stage of growth. You’ll help design and scale a secure, cost-effective data platform that powers smarter decisions across the business. If you thrive on solving complex problems, automating processes, and driving best-in-class data practices, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

Build, optimise, and maintain the Data Warehouse with a focus on reliability and performance.

Manage and support core data tools and systems (security, access, optimisation).

Partner with engineering teams to track and measure product performance.

Work with BI to create self-service datasets for business teams.

Automate workflows with Infrastructure-as-Code and scripting.

Uphold strong data quality, documentation, and onboarding standards.

Lead ingestion and integration of new data sources.

Tech Stack

Experience with some of the following is valuable:

Fivetran * Snowflake * dbt * Tableau * Airflow * Python * AWS (Fargate, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager) * Terraform * CircleCI * GitHub * Docker * Datadog

What We’re Looking For

Solid experience as a Data Engineer in a cloud-based environment.

Strong skills in data modelling, pipelines, and warehouse management.

Hands-on knowledge of modern tools (Snowflake, dbt, AWS, Airflow, Python).

Practical, automation-focused mindset with problem-solving ability.

Great communicator and collaborator across technical and business teams.

Self-starter, proactive, and delivery-driven.

Based in Cape Town, with office presence 3 days per week.

What’s on Offer

💰 Competitive salary

🌴 20 days leave + public holidays + Christmas Eve

💪 Health & wellbeing allowance (medical contribution)