Senior Data Engineer / Platform Lead

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Pretoria, City of Tshwane, Gauteng, ZAF
In-Office
Senior level
Agency • Information Technology • Professional Services
The Role
The Senior Data Engineer will design and build a scalable data platform, manage data pipelines, ensure data quality, and mentor junior engineers.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale our modern data platform. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who can architect robust data pipelines, drive best practices in data engineering, and mentor a growing team.

You will play a critical role in enabling analytics, data science, owning the end to end engineering of data pipelines and data products so that downstream reporting, and integrations run on reliable, scalable, governed, and observable data foundations.


RequirementsKey Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

  • Design scalable, secure, high-performance data architectures (lakehouse, warehouse, hybrid).

  • Lead batch & real-time data pipelines and CI/CD, version control, and IaC best practices.

  • Ensure data quality, governance, and observability.

Data Platform & Engineering

  • Build & maintain ETL/ELT workflows, optimize queries, and manage storage.

  • Integrate data from APIs, 3rd-party systems, and streaming platforms.

  • Support analytics and BI tooling with curated datasets.

Collaboration & Mentorship

  • Mentor junior/mid-level engineers.

  • Partner with Data Scientists, Analysts, Product Managers, and Engineering teams.

  • Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

SDLC-Aligned Responsibilities

  1. Discovery & Planning – Clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, break initiatives into implementable slices.

  2. Solution Design & Architecture – Own data architecture, define standards, ensure performance, security, and monitorability.

  3. Build & Implementation – Develop pipelines, transformations, orchestrations, and automation.

  4. Testing & Quality – Execute validations, reconcile data, ensure testability and reduce defects.

  5. Release & Deployment – Support automated deployment, post-release validation, rollback strategies.

  6. Operations & Monitoring – Own production pipelines, monitor, troubleshoot, implement preventive controls.

  7. Governance & Documentation – Maintain lineage, dataset definitions, runbooks; enforce security and compliance.

  8. Leadership & Team Enablement – Review work, set standards, coordinate dependencies, drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years in data engineering or related field

  • Strong SQL, MS Fabric, Data Factory, Power BI

  • Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure)

  • Modern data stack & orchestration tools experience

  • Strong data modeling, system design, and production pipeline experience

Preferred Qualifications
  • Real-time streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)

  • Infrastructure as Code

  • Machine learning data pipelines

  • Data governance, security, compliance

  • Team leadership / technical lead experience



Skills Required

  • 10+ years in data engineering or related field
  • Strong SQL, MS Fabric, Data Factory, Power BI
  • Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure)
  • Modern data stack & orchestration tools experience
  • Strong data modeling, system design, and production pipeline experience
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The Company
0 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Sabenza IT is a niche recruitment company specializing in Information Technology, SAP, Finance, and Engineering roles, with over 23 years of experience.

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