Senior AWS Data Engineer | Analytics Platform Lead (Remote)

dvtcareers

South Africa

On-site

ZAR 900,000 - 1,700,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

DVT is seeking a Senior Data Engineer / Analytics to join our Data and Automation practice on a high-impact client engagement. You will design, build, and operate a modern AWS-first data platform, moving data through S3 into Redshift Serverless, orchestrated by Airflow, modeled with dbt, and scripted in Python, with a path toward Snowflake.

This is a fully remote, client-facing role. You will own pipelines end to end, shape analytics engineering practices, and communicate clearly with

Qualifications

5+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or closely related roles.
Strong hands-on AWS data platform experience—S3-native data workflows and warehouse delivery.
Apache Airflow design, maintenance, and production pipeline troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines across AWS-native data environments.
Own Airflow orchestration—scheduling, dependencies, retries, alerting, and operational support.
Develop analytics-ready data models in dbt using modular, warehouse-first transformation patterns.
Work across S3 and Redshift Serverless for storage and warehousing, with potential Snowflake migration.
Write clean Python for pipelines, testing, and automation.
Embed data quality, testing, and observability into every pipeline.
Engage with client stakeholders, gather requirements, and present solutions.