Senior Data Engineer

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)

📈 Pension with 5% employer matching

🚲 Free parking or late-night transport

☕ Barista coffee + free breakfast

🎉 Social, collaborative culture with events & international trips

🚀 Career growth in a fast-scaling, disruptive tech company

Values

• Have fun, get it done: Work hard, celebrate wins, act with integrity.
• Progress over perfection: Stay curious, learn fast, and innovate.
• One team, thinking big: Collaborate, communicate, and face challenges together.

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