Data Engineer 24-Month Contract | Pretoria (Hybrid)

Are you passionate about turning raw data into actionable insights? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where innovation meets impact? Were looking for a Data Engineer to join our client in the financial space on a 24-month hybrid contract in Pretoria.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Design, build, and optimize high-volume data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and T-SQL procedures for scoring, analytics, and machine learning.
• Engineer feature stores and data warehouses, ensuring robust, reusable, and well-documented data structures.
• Perform data cleansing, transformation, and validation, guaranteeing accurate, reliable datasets for reporting and BI dashboards.
• Implement and maintain data governance, compliance, and QA frameworks, keeping data traceable, secure, and audit-ready.
• Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, production-ready data solutions.
• Optimize production pipelines for performance, reliability, and monitoring, leveraging your expertise in indexing, tuning, and workflow orchestration.

Requirements

What Were Looking For:

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Analytics, or Statistics, or Matric with 68 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience with SQL Server (T-SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning) and ETL tools (SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Airflow).
• Proven experience in data warehouses, feature stores, and production data solutions (batch and near real-time).
• Knowledge of data governance, QA frameworks, and regulatory compliance.
• Familiarity with Power BI, cloud platforms (Azure preferred), and version control (Git).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with an ability to translate complex requirements into practical solutions.

Why Youll Love This Role:

• Be at the forefront of enterprise-level data engineering projects.
• Contribute to impactful, high-visibility tax analytics and scoring initiatives.
• Work in a hybrid environment, combining flexibility and in-person collaboration.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies and cross-functional teams.

Turn data into actionable insights and make a real impact. Apply now!

Were looking for an Expert Data Engineer to architect, build, and optimize large-scale data pipelines that power mission-critical analytics across multiple business domains.

Youll work with modern cloud stack technologies, automate everything possible, and ensure data flows like a dream from ingestion to production systems.

If AWS services, Terraform scripts, Spark jobs and streaming architectures excite you, buckle up.

Requirements

• Expert-level experience with: Terraform Python 3x SQL (Oracle/PostgreSQL) PySpark Kafka Docker Linux/Unix Big Data Powershell/Bash ETL Glue S3 Kinesis Streams Lambda DynamoDB CloudWatch Athena CodePipeline Data Hubs.
• Strong BI and data modelling experience
  
• Experience working with REST APIs, data formats (Parquet, JSON, AVRO, XML, CSV)
  
• Ability to analyze complex datasets and perform deep validation
  
• Strong documentation and communication skills
  
• Experience in Agile environments (Jira, Confluence)
  
• Bonus: AWS certifications or Terraform Associate
  
• Bonus: Experience with AWS Data Pipeline, Great Expectations, EMR, RDS