Data Engineer II — ELT Pipelines & Snowflake Modeling

ATS Client; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Games Global in Cape Town is seeking an Intermediate Data Engineer to design, build, and operate data pipelines powering analytics, billing, experimentation, and AI/ML workloads. You will own end-to-end data solutions across ingestion, transformation, modelling, and optimisation.

You will work with SQL, Python, dbt, AWS Lambda, and Snowflake to create scalable, production-grade data products. Collaboration with analytics, data science, and software teams is essential, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 2–5 years' experience in data engineering or closely related field.
• 5 star level experience in SQL and solid Python skills.
• Hands-on experience with dbt.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, especially AWS Lambda and Snowflake.
• Familiarity with building pipelines and Terraform, CI/CD, version control.
• Solid Git fundamentals and experience in collaborative engineering environments
• Experience with orchestration tooling (Openflow or similar).
• Familiarity with analytics, experimentation, or AI/ML workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the data pipelines that our business relies on every day.
• Work end-to-end across ingestion, transformation, modelling, and optimisation.
• Designing and developing robust ELT pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, AWS Lambda, and modern orchestration tooling.
• Building clean, reusable data models across staging, intermediate, and mart layers in Snowflake.
• Onboarding and exposing new data sources to support products, features, and business initiatives.
• Implementing data quality checks, validations, observability and monitoring for early issue detection.
• Optimising query performance, storage usage, and Snowflake costs.
• Managing schema evolution, data lineage, and documentation.
• Supporting deployment, monitoring, and operational stability of data pipelines.
• Collaborating with Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, AI/ML Engineers, and Software Engineers to deliver end-to-end data solutions.
• Using automation and AI-assisted techniques to continuously improve the platform.
• This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role where you'll have meaningful ownership over the pipelines and data products you build.

Skills

SQL

Python

dbt

AWS Lambda

Snowflake

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Orchestration

AI/ML workloads

Tools

AWS Lambda

Snowflake

Job description

Games Global in Cape Town is seeking an Intermediate Data Engineer to design, build, and operate data pipelines powering analytics, billing, experimentation, and AI/ML workloads. You will own end-to-end data solutions across ingestion, transformation, modelling, and optimisation.

You will work with SQL, Python, dbt, AWS Lambda, and Snowflake to create scalable, production-grade data products. Collaboration with analytics, data science, and software teams is essential, with a focus on