Data Platform Engineer - Cloud ELT & Snowflake

Badger Holdings; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Badger Holdings is modernising its data platform and seeks an experienced Data Engineer to build reliable ELT pipelines, data models and scalable data flows. You’ll collaborate with analysts, data scientists and business teams to deliver practical solutions using a cloud-native stack (Snowflake, dbt, GCP) and CI/CD practices.

You’ll shape architecture decisions, contribute to governance, and mentor junior engineers while delivering value across the business with robust testing and documentation.

Qualifications

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/IS/Data Engineering.
• At least four years’ experience in data engineering or similar role.
• Strong SQL skills with complex transformations and query optimisation.
• Proficiency in Python for data processing and automation.
• Experience building ELT pipelines in cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Hands-on with Snowflake or Azure Synapse.
• Experience using dbt, Airflow or Dagster for data workflows.
• Experience with JSON and Parquet formats and data governance basics.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable ELT pipelines that integrate data from multiple sources.
• Develop and maintain data models using dbt.
• Optimise Snowflake models and workloads for performance and cost.
• Turn raw data into reliable datasets for reporting and analytics.
• Build data quality checks, monitoring and alerts for early issue detection.
• Help plan migration from legacy systems to the new platform.
• Apply engineering practices including testing, CI/CD and code reviews.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to deliver practical solutions.
• Contribute to documentation and engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

SQL

Python

ELT pipelines

Data modelling

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/IS/Data Engineering

Diploma or related qualification

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

GCP

Airflow

Dagster

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Badger Holdings is modernising its data platform and seeks an experienced Data Engineer to build reliable ELT pipelines, data models and scalable data flows. You’ll collaborate with analysts, data scientists and business teams to deliver practical solutions using a cloud-native stack (Snowflake, dbt, GCP) and CI/CD practices.

You’ll shape architecture decisions, contribute to governance, and mentor junior engineers while delivering value across the business with robust testing and documentation.