Cloud Data Platform Engineer

The Focus Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Focus Group in Sandton, South Africa, is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to architect, build and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines, ingesting and transforming data from diverse sources using Ab Initio, Python/Scala, Spark and Databricks within Azure and on‑premises environments.

You will collaborate with security, governance and analytics teams to ensure data quality, lineage and secure real‑time access, implement automated testing and CI/CD for data workflows, and mentor junior

Job description

The Focus Group in Sandton, South Africa, is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to architect, build and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines, ingesting and transforming data from diverse sources using Ab Initio, Python/Scala, Spark and Databricks within Azure and on‑premises environments.

You will collaborate with security, governance and analytics teams to ensure data quality, lineage and secure real‑time access, implement automated testing and CI/CD for data workflows, and mentor junior