Graduate Data Engineer: Build Investment Data Pipelines

Company : Parvana; Cape Town; Vor Ort; ZAR 240.000 - 360.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Parvana in Cape Town seeks a curious Graduate Data Engineer to join the Investment Analytics & Reporting team. You will collaborate across analytics, development, and investment groups to ensure smooth data flow for performance, attribution, exposure, and risk reports across global multi-asset portfolios.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with Python, SQL, Databricks, and cloud platforms while tackling data issues, automating workflows, and building scalable data pipelines in a fast-paced

Aufgaben

• Ensure the accurate, timely, and reliable flow of investment data, meeting daily and monthly SLAs
• This includes supporting the full data lifecycle - ingestion, validation, transformation, and delivery - and monitoring, running, and validating daily ETL processes across key domains (pricing, holdings, transactions), troubleshooting data breaks, and implementing timely fixes
• Design and contribute to modular, scalable data pipelines, participate in architecture discussions for new investment-data workflows, and partner with development teams on automation, rule refinement, and data model logic
• Support the migration of legacy processes to modern platforms (Databricks / Delta Lake) and build scripts/tools to reduce manual work
• Strengthen operational resilience, improve data quality (via rules-based checks), and drive automation/optimization across investment analytics
• Support data lineage tracking, metadata management, and governance for audits, and maintain comprehensive documentation of data flows and dependencies
• Work with investment analytics to support reporting cycles and bespoke client deliverables, and collaborate with external vendors (fund administrators, prime brokers) using APIs and file feeds
• Develop a strong understanding of investment data, financial instruments, portfolio holdings, return calculations, and risk metrics

Jobbeschreibung

Parvana in Cape Town seeks a curious Graduate Data Engineer to join the Investment Analytics & Reporting team. You will collaborate across analytics, development, and investment groups to ensure smooth data flow for performance, attribution, exposure, and risk reports across global multi-asset portfolios.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with Python, SQL, Databricks, and cloud platforms while tackling data issues, automating workflows, and building scalable data pipelines in a fast-paced