Senior Data Engineer

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Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Western Cape
In-Office
Senior level
eCommerce • Information Technology
The Role
The Senior Data Engineer will design and optimize data pipelines using Azure and Databricks, develop scalable ETL workflows, and contribute to AI-driven solutions to enhance decision-making and customer insights.
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Company Description

What started in 2007 with a pizza and a plan has grown into a fast-moving SaaS company empowering manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers to thrive in complex B2B commerce. 

Our mission is simple: help businesses build stronger relationships through seamless digital commerce. 

At Sana Commerce, you’ll join a team that’s bold, growth-oriented, and customer-obsessed, where every engineer has real ownership and impact. 

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize our Azure and Databricks-based data infrastructure. You will play a critical role in developing scalable ETL pipelines, data ingestion frameworks, and contribute to AI/ML-powered solutions that drive internal decision-making and customer-facing insights.

This is a hands-on role that requires expertise in Azure Data Services, Databricks, and Python/SQL. You will work closely with Data Architects, Engineers, and Product teams to develop robust data solutions that power analytics, personalization, and AI-driven customer experiences.

Job Description

Data Pipeline Development & Infrastructure

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines
  • Develop real-time and batch data processing frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
  • Implement ETL/ELT workflows to ingest data from various sources, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Optimize data storage and retrieval of data in (near) real time and batch processes
  • Ensure cost-efficient and high-performance data infrastructure that scales with business needs.

Data Solutions & AI-Driven Applications

  • develop data pipelines for ML recommenders, search functionality, and AI-enhanced features.
  • Develop and maintain data models, APIs, and integrations to support analytics and customer applications.
  • Support eCommerce-related data solutions, including product recommendations, customer segmentation, and personalization models.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

  • Work closely with Data Architects, Analysts, and Product Teams to understand data requirements and deliver best-in-class solutions.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues, ensuring high availability and efficiency of data pipelines.
  • Continuously optimize cost, performance, and scalability of data engineering solutions.

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, working with Azure and Databricks 
  • Strong expertise in data pipeline development, ETL workflows, and real-time/batch data processing.
  • Experience in big data technologies, and large-scale data storage.
  • Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance best practices and tools
  • Proficiency in Python, and SQL, for data transformation, data quality and automation.
  • Strong experience in optimizing data performance and cost-efficiency in cloud environments.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with eCommerce data solutions, such as customer segmentation, recommendation engines, and personalization models.
  • Knowledge of event-driven architectures, streaming data processing, and real-time analytics.
  • Familiarity with LLM-based AI applications and OpenAI or similar APIs.

Why you’ll love working here

  • Impact from day one – Join a scale-up where your ideas shape how global businesses operate online.
  • Continuous learning – Access a structured onboarding rated 9.1/10 by previous hires, mentorship, and feedback culture.
  • Hybrid flexibility – Work from our office 3 days per week and from home 2 days.
  • Career growth – Expand your technical and leadership scope in a company built for long-term success.

Our values

At Sana Commerce, our values drive everything we do:

  • Champions of Our League – We deliver lasting success, balancing quick wins and long-term value
  • Supercharge Our Customers – We’re revolutionizing B2B commerce together, helping our customers to lead and succeed.
  • Determined to Grow – We embrace challenges, growing and raising the bar for ourselves and our industry.
  • Bold Together – We dare to be bold because we have each other’s back.

Ready to build reliability that scales?

Apply now and help shape the foundation of our next-generation SaaS platform.

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The Company
New York, NY
469 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

At Sana Commerce, we specialize in delivering a comprehensive B2B e-commerce solution that seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Dynamics and SAP ERPs.

Our mission is to empower manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers with the tools they need to build and nurture long lasting customer relationships

How? By making your SAP or Microsoft Dynamics ERP and e-commerce work as one. This eliminates the system silos, unnecessary complexities, and compromises caused by mainstream e-commerce solutions.

Instead, our approach unlocks 3 key benefits that enable you to build lasting relationships with your customers:
• Total customer convenience: Empower your customers with personalized self-service and complete transparency.
• Reliability without compromise: Eliminate errors and delays for an experience your customers can always rely on.
• Constant evolution: Quickly and easily adapt your business to meet and exceed your customers’ evolving expectations.

Sana Commerce is a certified SAP and Microsoft Gold partner, backed by a strong global partner network and recognized by leading industry experts.

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