Senior Data Architect — Fully Remote Data Strategy Leader

Placements24; Stellenbosch; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Retirement annuities

Professional development

Fully remote role

Flexible schedule

Job summary

WhatJobs Direct is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design, develop and implement comprehensive data strategies and architectures for our client. This remote role supports operations across South Africa from your home office.

You will define how data is collected, stored, integrated and used, driving data governance, security and quality while enabling BI, analytics and reporting capabilities. Collaboration with stakeholders is essential to success.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data architecture, modeling and warehousing.
• Experience designing large-scale data solutions.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL, data governance and security.
• Proven remote work ability and stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable data architectures including warehouses, lakes, and marts.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Define standards for data management, governance and quality.
• Lead data engineering teams and mentor colleagues.
• Stay current with emerging data technologies and trends.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

NoSQL

ETL/ELT

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science/Information Systems

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Data warehousing

ETL tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

WhatJobs Direct is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design, develop and implement comprehensive data strategies and architectures for our client. This remote role supports operations across South Africa from your home office.

You will define how data is collected, stored, integrated and used, driving data governance, security and quality while enabling BI, analytics and reporting capabilities. Collaboration with stakeholders is essential to success.