Cape Town: Senior Data Engineer Support Resources posted by PBT Group
Posted on 2025-05-21 00:00:00
| Employer | PBT Group |
|---|---|
| Category | Other Finance/Accounting |
| Location | Western Cape / Cape Town |
Job Summary
Two senior data engineer support contractors are required for a high-performance data engineering environment. These professionals will operate in a hybrid capacitycombining data engineering and software engineering expertiseto support mission-critical data products and platforms. Candidates must possess deep troubleshooting capabilities and a versatile skill set, especially in on-premise technologies.
The support team operates on a 24×7 schedule, with these roles forming part of the second-line support layer. When not engaged in support tasks, the individuals will contribute directly to delivery activities across various squads.
Tech Stack
- Cloud: AWS Services
- Data Platforms: SAP HANA, Cloudera (including NiFi)
- Languages & Tools: Python
- Infrastructure: Predominantly on-prem with some cloud integration
Role Responsibilities
- Provide 24×7 second-line operational support for data platforms and products.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across a wide range of technologies.
- Collaborate with engineering squads to assist with development and delivery tasks during non-support windows.
- Build and maintain ingestion pipelines that collect and protect data from diverse sources.
- Simplify data transformation processes for SQL users, enabling orchestration through DAGs and other automation.
- Accelerate insights and ML model development by enabling frictionless interaction with platform tools.
- Ensure platform performance through logging, metrics, tracing, SLIs/SLOs, and real-time observability.
- Build platforms that prioritise security and compliance, implementing best practices around encryption, RBAC, VPCs, and IAM integration.
- Employ containerisation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Docker and Terraform.
- Participate in architectural discussions and technology spikes, providing recommendations based on hands-on evaluation.
- Mentor junior team members and promote a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
Ideal Candidate Profile
Experience:
- 5+ years in data engineering within a platform or services team
- At least 2 years of recent experience with modern cloud-based technologies
Skills & Mindset:
- Strong independent problem-solver, comfortable with ambiguity
- Demonstrated ownership, initiative, and high agency
- Innovative thinker with a bias toward action
- Comfortable working in fast-paced environments and delivering iteratively
- Cost-conscious and efficiency-driven
- Values diverse perspectives and continuous improvement
Examples of Platform Responsibilities
- Ingestion of data from APIs, enterprise systems, or streaming sources into data lakes/lakehouses
- Use of orchestration platforms like Airflow and analytics tools such as dbt
- Management of data processing and storage platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks)
- Implementing privacy and security measures like data masking and access control
- Enable self-service analytics using tools like PowerBI or Tableau
- Building configurable data services for real-time and batch data processing using Python, SQL, or Spark
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