Junior Data Engineer - Fabric Pipelines & BI

Cls; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Own transport

Driver's license

Job summary

Cls in Pretoria is seeking a Junior Data Engineer to manage an established Microsoft Fabric data platform and develop new data engineering capabilities. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, from ingestion to BI-ready datasets, across batch and near-real-time processing.

The role demands hands-on expertise with Fabric components and strong problem-solving across data layers. The successful candidate will collaborate with analytics teams to deliver robust data models and scalable solutions,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering or a related field.
• Relevant Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure data certification.
• 0-1 years of practical data engineering experience, including strong recent hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Pipelines/Data Factory, notebooks and Dataflows Gen2.
• Strong SQL Server and T-SQL capability, including complex query development, schema design, indexing and performance optimisation.
• Practical experience developing, maintaining and supporting production ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience integrating and extracting data from REST/SOAP APIs, databases, flat files and other structured or unstructured data sources.
• Proficiency in data transformation using SQL and Python/PySpark, with an understanding of scalable data processing practices.
• Practical experience in data warehousing, dimensional modelling, incremental loading, orchestration and schema evolution.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD and deployment practices using Git, Azure DevOps or equivalent tools.
• Experience supporting Power BI and other downstream analytical or reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the existing Microsoft Fabric data engineering environment and become productive quickly following handover.
• Design, develop, maintain and orchestrate reliable batch and near-real-time data ingestion pipelines using appropriate Microsoft Fabric capabilities.
• Extract and ingest data from structured and unstructured sources, including REST APIs, SOAP APIs, databases and flat files.
• Develop robust data transformation logic using SQL, Python/PySpark, Fabric notebooks and Dataflows Gen2, as appropriate.
• Implement incremental loading, retry mechanisms, logging, monitoring and alerting to support data integrity and pipeline reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline failures and data processing issues efficiently.
• Optimise data pipelines and processing workloads for performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

SQL Server

T-SQL

Python

PySpark

REST APIs

SOAP APIs

Data Warehousing

ETL/ELT

Power BI integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Engineering

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

OneLake

Lakehouse

Data Factory

Power BI

Job description

Cls in Pretoria is seeking a Junior Data Engineer to manage an established Microsoft Fabric data platform and develop new data engineering capabilities. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, from ingestion to BI-ready datasets, across batch and near-real-time processing.

The role demands hands-on expertise with Fabric components and strong problem-solving across data layers. The successful candidate will collaborate with analytics teams to deliver robust data models and scalable solutions,