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Data Engineer

Cape Town Region, Western Cape🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-30 → 2026-08-07

Core

Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure, pipelines, and warehousing solutions for a fast-growing tech company.

Role type

Data Engineer

Builds

Scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data warehousing solutions

Domain

Tech industry, cloud data platforms

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

SQL, Python or Scala, ETL/ELT pipeline orchestration, cloud data platforms, data modeling, database optimization, data governance

Preferred skills

Real-time/streaming data pipelines, data lakehouse architectures, ML data infrastructure support, Agile/DevOps practices

Technologies

Apache Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kafka, Spark, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg

Responsibilities

Design and maintain robust data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows; Develop and manage data warehousing solutions; Ensure data quality, integrity, and availability; Optimize query performance and database architecture; Monitor and resolve data pipeline failures; Implement data governance, security, and compliance best practices; Document data models and infrastructure.

Seniority

Mid-Senior (4+ years experience)

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