Cape Town: Senior Data Engineer Cape Town posted by Datafin

About the Role

Datafin, a bold Marketing Consultancy for challengers, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its Cape Town-based Media & Data team. This role is for someone who thrives on building systems that power breakthrough marketing strategies designed to disrupt the norm, outsmart competitors, and deliver outsized results.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize data pipelines and ETL processes to integrate diverse data sources (ad servers, DSPs, retail media, CRM, CDPs, web analytics, social, financial, product).
• Architect and maintain cloud-based data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Ensure interoperability between their products and tools, client martech stacks, and external media platforms.
• Implement data validation, cleansing, and monitoring frameworks to ensure accuracy and reliability of client data.
• Enforce data privacy and compliance standards (GDPR, CCPA, and client-specific governance frameworks).
• Develop processes to document lineage, metadata, and manage user permissions across datasets.
• Partner with data planners and strategists to translate client business needs into technical data solutions.
• Provide technical expertise to support CDP implementation, tagging, and identity resolution strategies.
• Collaborate with analytics teams to optimize data availability for dashboards, econometric models, and campaign reporting.
• Work closely with their Chief Product Officer and other members of the engineering and product teams to collaborate on their own products and capabilities.
• Eventually, mentor junior data engineers, ensuring consistent delivery of code and products within organisational best practices.
• Lead data engineering input in client discussions and technical workshops, articulating complex systems in clear, strategic language.
• Stay ahead of emerging data engineering technologies, martech integrations, and media data standards; recommend innovations that improve efficiency and performance.

Requirements

• Youre highly organized and deliver excellence without compromise.
• You think like an entrepreneurcurious, bold, and unafraid to get stuck in.
• They do not require a minimum years of experience, but you do need to have significant experience in data strategy, analytics, and planning, ideally with an agency background.
• Expertise in and a strong point of view on the role of data in brand strategy, creative, paid media, and overall effectiveness measurement.
• Deep understanding of how data drives modern media investment across channels (predominantly, CTV, retail media, social, and search).
• Strong knowledge of major marketing technology providers and tools (their partners include marketing automation like Braze; DSPs including the Trade Desk; CDP providers like Rokt/formerly mParticle; reporting platforms like AdVerity, among others)
• Proven ability to design measurement frameworks, manage data governance considerations, and translate insights into business growth.

Salary & Benefits

Salary information is not provided in the original job description.