Remote AI Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines for ML

Placements24; East London; Híbrido; ZAR 700.000 - 1.100.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Remote-first culture

Health benefits

Professional development

Descripción de la vacante

Placements24 is seeking an AI Data Engineer to join a fully remote team. You will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines powering AI/ML models and applications. The role requires strong data engineering fundamentals, big data tech, and cloud platform experience.

You will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers to ensure data quality and availability. Remote-first work environment offers flexibility and opportunities to stay at the forefront of AI data

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in a related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in data engineering focusing on large-scale pipelines.
• Proven experience with big data technologies (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop Ecosystem).
• Strong SQL and programming skills in Python or Scala.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and data services.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, and database technologies.
• Familiarity with MLOps is a plus.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is beneficial.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for AI/ML workloads.
• Develop ETL/ELT processes to ingest, transform, and load data into data lakes and warehouses.
• Optimize data structures and data flow for performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers to meet data requirements.
• Implement data quality checks and monitoring to ensure reliability.
• Work with distributed computing frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop.
• Utilize cloud data services (S3, ADLS, GCS, Redshift, BigQuery).
• Implement data governance and security best practices.
• Troubleshoot data pipelines and infrastructure issues.
• Stay updated with data engineering trends.

Conocimientos

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Scala

Spark

Kafka

Hadoop

Cloud platforms

Data warehousing

NoSQL

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

Placements24 is seeking an AI Data Engineer to join a fully remote team. You will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines powering AI/ML models and applications. The role requires strong data engineering fundamentals, big data tech, and cloud platform experience.

You will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers to ensure data quality and availability. Remote-first work environment offers flexibility and opportunities to stay at the forefront of AI data