Data Platform Engineering Leader
Summary
Leads and mentors Vodacom's platform engineering team, owning the reliability and cost-efficient operation of data ingestion and transformation pipelines that underpin analytics and ML workloads, while setting technical direction and enforcing IaC/CI-CD practices.
Vodacom seeks a Platform Engineering Lead to own and evolve the data platform, ensuring reliability and cost-efficient operation across markets. You will lead a team of platform engineers, set the technical direction, and partner with data science and delivery squads to provide a stable foundation for analytics and ML workloads.
You will drive platform strategy, oversee ingestion and transformation pipelines, enforce IaC/CI-CD, and mentor engineers while coordinating with data architects and ML