Pretoria: Senior Manager AWS Platforms & Data

Role Description The purpose of this role is to maintain the stability, scalability, and security of AWS infrastructure while spearheading data platform architecture. This position drives DevOps maturity and automates delivery paths for software engineering. Responsibilities include strategic oversight of the AWS ecosystem, adoption of emerging cloud services, and the management of a scalable Amazon Connect contact center integration. Leadership & Team Management 20% Serving as the technical liaison to business leadership regarding Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Catalog initiatives. Mentoring technical staff, conducting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) reviews, and documenting architectural standards. Aligning departmental technology roadmaps with overarching corporate strategy. AWS Infrastructure & Platform Engineering 30% Designing resilient, high-availability cloud architectures using Terraform or AWS CDK. Implementing AIOps strategies via Amazon DevOps Guru and AWS Compute Optimizer to automate root cause analysis and capacity planning. Orchestrating migrations of legacy workloads to EKS, ECS, or Lambda. Managing the AWS budget through rigorous tagging, savings plans, and spot instance utilization. Overseeing the Amazon Connect instance, including Salesforce integration and automated agent workflows. Data Engineering & Architecture 30% Executing MDM strategies and identity resolution frameworks to establish a unified “golden record.” Governing an enterprise Data Catalog using AWS Glue to ensure data lineage and self-service accessibility. Integrating automated data quality checks (e.g., Great Expectations, Deequ) and maintaining event-driven architectures (SNS, SQS, Kinesis). Enforcing Data Vault principles to secure PHI/PII in compliance with HIPAA and GDPR. Security, Compliance and Best Practices 10% Owning cloud security protocols, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) and encryption standards. Deploying automated security scanning within CI/CD pipelines. Managing AWS security services, specifically GuardDuty, Security Hub, and WAF QMS and Compliance 10% Document cloud processes, security processes, and architectural decisions. Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by adhering to good processes, practices, and habits, including compliance to QMS system. Ensure compliance to the established processes and standards for the development lifecycle. Assist in auditing infrastructure against compliance standards (GDPR, HIPAA, ISO). Drive compliance to the Quality Management System in line with the Quality Objectives. Comply with ISO, CE, FDA standards and requirements as applicable. Act as the data officer to safeguard confidential information and data. Role Requirements Years of Experience: 10 years in Cloud Engineering, 3 years in management or technical leadership role Required Qualifications: Essential: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar) Desirable: Honors degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar) AWS Certified Developer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Required Nature of Experience: Data Engineering development Experience with AWS services used for data warehousing, computing and transformations ie.AWS Glue (crawlers, jobs, triggers, and catalog), AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS Athena and AWS CloudWatch Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB) Experience with SQL for querying and transformation of data Skills and Knowledge (Essential): Strong skills in Python (especially PySpark for AWS Glue) Strong knowledge of data modeling, schema design and database optimization Proficiency with AWS and infrastructure as code Should you not receive a response from us within one week of your application, your application has unfortunately not been successful.