Remote Senior Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines

Placements24; East London; A distancia; ZAR 1.200.000 - 2.000.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Highly competitive compensation

Fully remote work with flexible hours

Professional development budget

Home office stipend

Company-provided equipment

Equity or stock option plan

Retirement savings plan with company-m

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Descripción de la vacante

Placements24 is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join a fully remote, world-class data engineering team. This senior role designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes for analytics, ML, and BI with a focus on quality, governance, and performance.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of data engineering experience, mastery of Spark, Kafka, Flink, SQL, Python/Scala/Java, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Formación

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of data engineering, data warehousing, or related roles.
• Expertise in designing and building large-scale data pipelines with Spark, Kafka, Flink.
• SQL proficiency and experience with PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery.
• Strong programming in Python, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Deep understanding of data modeling, warehousing concepts, and governance.
• Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) desirable.
• Excellent problem-solving and remote collaboration skills.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
• Architect data warehousing solutions and data lakes.
• Optimize data retrieval, storage, and processing for performance and cost.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and security across platforms.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts and stakeholders to define requirements.
• Develop and implement data modeling strategies.
• Evaluate and integrate new data technologies and tools.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior data engineers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex data-related issues.
• Contribute to overall data strategy and architecture.

Conocimientos

Data modeling

Data governance

Communication

Remote collaboration

Educación

Master's or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Equivalent experience

Herramientas

Spark

Kafka

Flink

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Python

Scala

Java

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

Placements24 is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join a fully remote, world-class data engineering team. This senior role designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes for analytics, ML, and BI with a focus on quality, governance, and performance.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of data engineering experience, mastery of Spark, Kafka, Flink, SQL, Python/Scala/Java, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).