Remote Senior Data Solutions Architect

Placements24; Mossel Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & bonus structure

Remote work

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a Senior Solutions Architect focused on Data & Analytics for a fully remote role based in Mossel Bay, Western Cape. You will shape the data strategy, design scalable platforms, and drive data-driven decision making across the organization.

You will lead big data initiatives, collaborate with data scientists and analysts, ensure governance and security, and mentor the analytics team in a fast-paced FinTech environment.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field is required.
• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, engineering, or related roles.
• Proven experience with large-scale data warehousing and big data solutions.
• Strong knowledge of cloud data platforms and ETL/ELT tools.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Lead technical design and implementation of big data solutions (Spark, Hadoop, cloud services).
• Develop data models and architectures for BI, analytics, and ML initiatives.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to meet data needs.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and security across platforms.
• Mentor data engineers and analysts; optimize processing performance and cost.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Data architecture

ETL/ELT orchestration

Big data

BI tools

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related quantitative field

Tools

AWS Redshift

S3

Glue

Azure Data Lake

Databricks

GCP BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Job description

Placements24 seeks a Senior Solutions Architect focused on Data & Analytics for a fully remote role based in Mossel Bay, Western Cape. You will shape the data strategy, design scalable platforms, and drive data-driven decision making across the organization.

You will lead big data initiatives, collaborate with data scientists and analysts, ensure governance and security, and mentor the analytics team in a fast-paced FinTech environment.