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Data Engineering Lead

Central Johannesburg, Johannesburg💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-22 → 2026-08-07

Core

Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable enterprise data platforms and pipelines supporting analytics, reporting, and advanced data solutions.

Role type

Senior IC Data Engineering Lead

Builds

Scalable enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and data solutions

Domain

Financial Services / Corporate Environment

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

SQL, ETL/ELT frameworks, data warehousing and lakehouse architectures, data modelling, DevOps/CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud platform orchestration

Preferred skills

Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks), Power BI, Qlik

Technologies

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, Databricks

Responsibilities

Lead design and maintenance of scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines; Architect data ingestion, transformation, and storage solutions; Define technical specifications, source-to-target mappings, and data models; Lead troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident resolution; Mentor and coach Data Engineers; Translate business requirements into scalable engineering solutions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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