Hybrid Data Solutions Engineer

Entelect; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Twice-yearly salary increases and-guar

Guaranteed bonuses

Tenure-based loyalty leave

Wellness programs and professional dev

Commission incentives for business dev

Leadership support via regular one‑on‑

Leadership and technical training

Exposure to enterprise projects across

Job summary

Entelect is seeking an Intermediate Data Solutions Engineer to join a dynamic, delivery‑focused team in Cape Town. You will work across the data analytics value chain, build reliable data assets, and collaborate with architects to deploy cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem solutions.

You should have 4+ years in enterprise data engineering, strong data modeling skills, and a passion for modern analytics like Lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience as a data solutions engineer in an enterprise environment.
• Proficiency in software engineering fundamentals and clean code practices.
• Experience delivering in a delivery team with cross‑functional disciplines.
• Strong ability to model and analyse data.
• Solid understanding of data engineering methodologies.
• Good understanding of visualisation best practices.
• Interest in modern analytics solutions like Lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric.

Responsibilities

• Wrangling data from multiple sources into a reliable, evolving data asset.
• Collaborating with Solution Architects to design and implement cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem solutions.
• Designing and implementing optimal data engineering pipelines and analytics including AI/ML when relevant.
• Working across descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive, and cognitive analytics.
• Understanding DataOps and MLOps for continuous deployment with high quality.
• Maintaining data lineage and metadata integrity.
• Using data analytics expertise to drive business improvements.

Skills

Data modeling

Data engineering methodologies

Visualization best practices

Collaboration & communication

Delivery team experience

Clean code practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering or related fields

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Python

Microsoft Fabric

Amazon QuickSight

Grafana

Google Data Studio

Job description

Entelect is seeking an Intermediate Data Solutions Engineer to join a dynamic, delivery‑focused team in Cape Town. You will work across the data analytics value chain, build reliable data assets, and collaborate with architects to deploy cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem solutions.

You should have 4+ years in enterprise data engineering, strong data modeling skills, and a passion for modern analytics like Lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric.