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Senior Data Engineer (Lead)

Pretoria, Tshwane💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-08 → 2026-08-08

Core

Designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and reliable data pipeline architectures and integration patterns to support business decision-making and data maturity.

Role type

Senior Lead Data Engineer

Builds

Robust, modular, and version-controlled data pipelines and integration systems

Domain

Data Engineering / Data Management

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Data pipeline architecture, API design, data modeling, data quality management, metadata management, data security, data lifecycle management, data cataloguing, data lineage, infrastructure planning

Preferred skills

Stakeholder engagement, data governance, technical documentation, migration planning

Technologies

APIs, data exchange formats, interoperability standards, version control systems

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain data pipeline architectures; Design integration patterns and protocols; Build robust and scalable data pipelines; Quality assure pipeline implementations; Monitor and optimize pipeline performance; Recommend improvements for data quality and automation; Manage data growth patterns for infrastructure planning; Engage stakeholders for data management; Provide input into data governance and technical review sessions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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