Remote Senior Data Architect: Lakes and Governance

Placements24; Gauteng; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Architect for a fully remote role, enabling you to shape data landscapes for BI, data warehousing, and data science projects. You will design scalable architectures, model data, and implement governance in a remote-first environment.

The role emphasizes mentoring junior team members, collaborating across time zones, and leveraging big data technologies to deliver robust solutions from Pretoria, Gauteng and beyond.

Qualifications

• Design and optimize scalable data architectures.
• Translate business needs into data solutions.
• Mentor junior data team members.
• Implement data governance and quality controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain data warehouses.
• Lead ETL/ELT processes across platforms.
• Define data models and data lake strategies.
• Collaborate with analytics teams in a remote setup.

Skills

Data modeling

Big data

ETL/ELT

Data governance

BI/analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

Hadoop

Spark

Azure/AWS data

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Architect for a fully remote role, enabling you to shape data landscapes for BI, data warehousing, and data science projects. You will design scalable architectures, model data, and implement governance in a remote-first environment.

The role emphasizes mentoring junior team members, collaborating across time zones, and leveraging big data technologies to deliver robust solutions from Pretoria, Gauteng and beyond.