Senior AWS Data Engineer: Cloud Data Pipelines & Platforms

Decision Inc.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Decision Inc. is seeking a Senior AWS Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS, enabling analytics, reporting and AI/ML initiatives.

You will work across the data engineering lifecycle, building modern pipelines, supporting cloud migrations and delivering enterprise-grade data platforms, with mentorship and growth opportunities.

This role focuses on security, performance, and cost efficiency while collaborating with architects, analysts and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience, including hands-on delivery on AWS.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data pipelines and analytics solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Build and optimise cloud-based data lakes and data processing solutions using native AWS services.
• Develop ETL/ELT processes to ingest, transform, and curate data from multiple sources.
• Implement data quality, monitoring, and error-handling processes for reliable data delivery.
• Optimise data solutions for performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts and business stakeholders to deliver data solutions.
• Support CI/CD practices, Infrastructure as Code, and operational excellence across the data estate.
• Contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Apache Spark

Data modeling

Data governance

CI/CD

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Job description

Decision Inc. is seeking a Senior AWS Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS, enabling analytics, reporting and AI/ML initiatives.

You will work across the data engineering lifecycle, building modern pipelines, supporting cloud migrations and delivering enterprise-grade data platforms, with mentorship and growth opportunities.

This role focuses on security, performance, and cost efficiency while collaborating with architects, analysts and stakeholders.