Senior Data Engineer - remote
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- South Africa
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Self-motivated and comfortable working remotely.
- Passionate about modern data and cloud technologies.
- Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision.
- A strong problem solver.
- Confident taking ownership of technical solutions.
- Commercially aware and focused on delivering business value.
- A strong communicator and team player.
- Comfortable working directly with clients.
- Keen to share knowledge and mentor others.
- Committed to delivering high-quality solutions and best practices.
Full description
This is a fully remote opportunity for a technically strong Data Engineer who enjoys solving complex data challenges, working with modern Microsoft technologies, and engaging with clients and senior stakeholders.
About the Role
Youll be responsible for designing and delivering modern data solutions across the full data lifecycle, including data ingestion, transformation, modelling, analytics, governance, data quality and lifecycle management.
Youll work closely with technical and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable, effective solutions.
The role offers a high degree of autonomy, with the opportunity to take ownership of technical decisions, contribute to solution architecture and act as a trusted technical advisor.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build modern data pipelines and data streams.
- Design and implement data warehouses and lakehouse platforms.
- Develop scalable ETL/ELT solutions.
- Work across the full data lifecycle from ingestion through to analytics, governance and data lifecycle management.
- Integrate and aggregate data across multiple business applications and data sources.
- Work with Customer Data Platforms and enterprise data environments.
- Apply modern data architecture patterns, including Medallion, Lambda and Event-Driven architectures.
- Develop analytical solutions using Power BI, DAX, Tabular models and Paginated Reports.
- Identify opportunities to leverage Microsoft Fabric and Azure analytics services.
- Support the planning, configuration and implementation of data platform services.
- Establish effective data quality, monitoring and metrics processes.
- Contribute to data governance initiatives, including Master Data Management (MDM).
- Translate business requirements into appropriate technical solutions.
- Take ownership of solution design and technical delivery.
- Work with clients as a trusted technical advisor.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other team members.
- Produce high-quality technical documentation.
- Support project planning, progress reporting and delivery.
Technical Skills & Experience
Were looking for candidates with strong hands-on experience across modern data engineering technologies, ideally including:
- 2+ years' experience with ETL/ELT technologies.
- Strong SQL and T-SQL skills.
- Experience with Azure Data Factory / Data Factory Pipelines.