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Lead Data Engineer

Sandton, North Johannesburg💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-12 → 2026-08-09

Core

Design, build, and operate modern Databricks and Lakehouse data platforms supporting advanced analytics, AI, and Generative AI use cases including LLM and agent-based systems.

Role type

Senior individual contributor Lead Data Engineer

Builds

Scalable, governed, and reliable Lakehouse architectures and data pipelines for analytics and AI workloads

Domain

Data Engineering, Generative AI, Lakehouse

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Apache Spark, Python, SQL, CI/CD, automated testing, data lineage, RAG patterns

Preferred skills

Generative AI data enablement, mentorship, cross-functional collaboration

Technologies

Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Apache Spark, Python, SQL

Responsibilities

Design and operate Databricks solutions (Jobs, Workflows, Notebooks), build pipelines for GenAI (RAG, context prep), implement production-grade pipelines with testing and deployment, ensure data quality and operational stability, mentor AI Engineers, support incident resolution and governance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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