Lead Data Engineer — Build Scalable Pipelines & Strategy
Summary
Lead Data Engineer in Vereeniging, South Africa, building and managing scalable data infrastructure for a fast-growing fintech. Day to day: design and optimize data pipelines, warehousing, and data models, ensure data quality for analytics and ML teams, and mentor junior engineers while shaping the company's data strategy.
Placements24 is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Vereeniging, Gauteng, to build and manage a scalable data infrastructure for a fast-growing fintech. You will design, implement, and optimize data pipelines, warehousing, and modeling while ensuring data quality and accessibility for analytics and ML teams.
You will mentor junior engineers, drive best practices, and shape the company data strategy, collaborating with data scientists, analysts and stakeholders across the organization.