Lead Data Engineer - Financial Data Pipelines
Summary
Lead Data Engineer at Air Chefs in Cape Town designing and delivering scalable data pipelines for market and investment data. Day to day this means owning ETL/ELT development in Python/Java/JavaScript, leading a growing engineering team, enforcing data-platform best practices, and working with stakeholders in a regulated financial environment.
Air Chefs in Cape Town, South Africa, seeks an experienced Data Engineer to drive the design and delivery of scalable data pipelines for market and investment data. You will lead a growing engineering team and ensure best practices across the data platform.
Ideal candidates have 8–10 years in enterprise data engineering, strong ETL/ELT, and expertise in Python/Java/JavaScript. You will collaborate with stakeholders and operate within a regulated financial environment to enable robust analytics.