Africa-Focused Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & Solutions

1001 Absa Bank; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Bank in South Africa is seeking an experienced Data Architect/Engineer to design and implement data solutions across the bank's architecture and data platforms. You will translate business requirements into scalable designs and deliver robust data pipelines for retrieval, storage and distribution.

You will build analytics tools for data science teams, ensure security and governance, and contribute to automated deployments and CI/CD practices using Jenkins, Ansible and Chef across multi-site

Qualifications

• Understand bank-wide data architecture to design data solutions.
• Translate business requirements into data solution designs.
• Design data retrieval, storage, and distribution solutions.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Ensure security and governance per group standards.

Responsibilities

• Coach & mentor other engineers.
• Develop high quality data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution design.
• Build analytics tools for data science teams that use data pipelines.
• Monitor performance and optimize data solutions.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

Ansible

Chef

SQL

NoSQL

Kafka

Hadoop

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Job description

Absa Bank in South Africa is seeking an experienced Data Architect/Engineer to design and implement data solutions across the bank's architecture and data platforms. You will translate business requirements into scalable designs and deliver robust data pipelines for retrieval, storage and distribution.

You will build analytics tools for data science teams, ensure security and governance, and contribute to automated deployments and CI/CD practices using Jenkins, Ansible and Chef across multi-site