Data Engineering Specialist: Pipelines, QA & Orchestration

Lesaka Technologies Inc.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Lesaka Merchant is seeking a Specialist: Data Engineering to design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines within the group’s central data platform. You will ensure data quality, contribute to platform stability, and work within established engineering standards.

The role focuses on end-to-end pipeline development, orchestration, and proactive data quality checks, with documentation and collaboration across the Merchants Operations Division.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline is mandatory.
• 4+ years of production data engineering experience.
• Solid Python skills and proven SQL experience against a cloud data warehouse.
• Hands-on experience with at least one orchestration tool (Airflow, Prefect, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines from source systems to the Merchant data warehouse.
• Develop and maintain orchestration workflows with reliable execution and alerting.
• Implement data quality tests across pipeline components and respond to data quality issues.
• Produce and maintain documentation for all developed or modified pipeline components.
• Ensure pipelines run reliably in production with monitoring and recovery processes.
• Communicate progress and issues clearly to the team and contribute to process improvements.

Skills

Python

SQL

Orchestration tools

Data pipelines

Data quality checks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related technical discipline

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

Job description

Lesaka Merchant is seeking a Specialist: Data Engineering to design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines within the group’s central data platform. You will ensure data quality, contribute to platform stability, and work within established engineering standards.

The role focuses on end-to-end pipeline development, orchestration, and proactive data quality checks, with documentation and collaboration across the Merchants Operations Division.