Senior Data Engineer (12-mo) | Snowflake, dbt Pipelines

IQbusiness; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

IQbusiness is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a 12-month hybrid role in Cape Town. You will design, build, and govern scalable data pipelines and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on Snowflake architecture and dbt models.

The role involves AI-driven ingestion, cost/performance tuning, and close collaboration with analytics and data science teams. You will optimise data flows, implement robust governance, and automate deployments via Git-driven processes while documenting paradigms for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field as a baseline requirement.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or similar roles.
• Hands-on Snowflake design, architecture, and administration experience.
• Proven dbt experience for modular models, testing, and lineage.
• Strong SQL and Python abilities for data pipelines and transformations.
• Experience with AI-driven data ingestion and unstructured data handling.
• Familiarity with data governance, security, and cost/performance tuning.
• Experience building cloud data pipelines (Azure/AWS/GCP) with Git workflows.
• Knowledge of Kimball/Dimensional data modelling concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimise scalable data pipelines.
• Architect Snowflake environments with security and governance.
• Develop dbt models following best practices and documentation.
• Build ingestion pipelines using Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks.
• Implement AI-driven ingestion to enrich unstructured data.
• Tune Snowflake for cost efficiency and performance.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability across transformations.
• Collaborate with analytics, product, and data science teams.
• Automate deployments and workflows using Git-driven processes.
• Maintain thorough documentation and share knowledge with the team.

Skills

SQL

Python

Multi-tenant architecture

Data modelling

AI-driven ingestion

Security frameworks

Data governance

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/related

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Snowpipe/Streams/Tasks

Git

CI/CD

Azure

AWS / GCP

Job description

IQbusiness is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a 12-month hybrid role in Cape Town. You will design, build, and govern scalable data pipelines and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on Snowflake architecture and dbt models.

The role involves AI-driven ingestion, cost/performance tuning, and close collaboration with analytics and data science teams. You will optimise data flows, implement robust governance, and automate deployments via Git-driven processes while documenting paradigms for