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Data Engineer (FMCG / Food / Retail industry experience)

Bellville, Cape Town City Centre💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-18 → 2026-09-21

Core

Design, develop, and maintain reliable ETL/ELT data pipelines across multiple business systems (ERP, TMS, WMS, finance, CRM, supply chain) to build a trusted organizational data foundation.

Role type

Senior Data Engineer (ETL/ELT & Data Quality)

Builds

Scalable data pipelines, analysis-ready datasets, and governed data products for business intelligence and AI applications.

Domain

FMCG / Food / Retail industry data engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

ETL/ELT pipeline development, Python, database development, systems integration, data quality validation, data modeling, SQL, data migration, automation, data governance, AI tooling implementation

Preferred skills

Cloud platform certifications, MDM implementation, agentic coding tools, prompt engineering, semantic layer construction

Technologies

Python, SQL, ERP, TMS, WMS, AI/LLM tools, data warehouse, data lake

Responsibilities

Design and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines; implement automated data-quality checks and validation controls; develop analysis-ready datasets for analysts; optimize database queries and processing routines; support data migration and cleansing during system implementations; build semantic foundations (glossaries, ontologies) for AI and agent-based tools; apply AI-assisted development tooling for code generation and review.

Seniority

Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC

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