Senior Data Engineer / Platform Lead

Pretoria, South Africa | Posted on 12/03/2026

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.

Key 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.
• Build & maintain ETL/ELT workflows, optimize queries...