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Senior Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer at Indsafri (South Africa) who designs, builds, and operates scalable batch and incremental data pipelines on AWS, leading agile delivery and mentoring junior engineers. Core stack is Python, SQL, Git, and CI/CD, with a strong emphasis on governance, security, and the responsible use of AI tools in engineering workflows.

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and operational support of scalable data pipelines and platforms. As a key member of our Agile team, you will be responsible for driving technical excellence, ensuring high-quality data availability, and guiding the team in adopting AI-driven engineering practices within a secure, governance-aligned framework. You will play a pivotal role in enabling trusted analytics and business insights across the organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Agile Delivery & Ownership: Lead data engineering outcomes by participating in sprint planning, task decomposition, and estimation, ensuring outputs meet high performance and quality standards.
  • Pipeline Development: Architect and implement scalable batch and incremental data ingestion and transformation pipelines with robust error handling and monitoring.
  • Platform Strategy: Contribute to the evolution of the AWS-based data environment, ensuring design choices align with organizational security, cost, and performance goals.
  • Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide guidance to junior engineers, foster a culture of continuous learning, and establish shared engineering standards and best practices.
  • Engineering Quality: Enforce rigorous standards including version control, automated testing, CI/CD, and thorough technical documentation.
  • AI-Driven Engineering: Champion the responsible and governed use of AI tools to accelerate development, optimize pipeline logic, and improve documentation while ensuring data security and compliance.
  • Operational Excellence: Maintain platform readiness, manage incident response, and perform root cause analysis to ensure system stability.
  • Governance & Compliance: Integrate privacy, security, and access controls into data solutions by design, ensuring alignment with regulatory and audit requirements.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience: 4-7+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a similar technical role.
  • Technical Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Extensive experience with AWS-based data architectures.
  • Strong background in data modeling, schema design, and data warehousing principles.
  • Experience ingesting data from diverse sources (relational databases, APIs, cloud storage).
  • Proficiency in Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
  • AI Integration: Proven experience implementing AI tools within engineering workflows, with a strict understanding of managing AI-related risks and validating outputs.
  • Soft Skills: Strong analytical problem-solving, effective communication, and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Relevant professional certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Engineer, Cloud Solutions Architect).
  • Experience working within SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) environments.
  • Familiarity with BI and visualization tools, specifically Power BI.
  • Strong in AWS, SQL & python experience

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GIT Python AWS SQL Problem-Solving communication Automation CI/CD Data Warehousing Data Modeling Schema Design AI Tools

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