Senior Data Engineer - AI-Driven Pipelines & AWS Lead

Indsafri; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Indsafri is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and platforms. You will drive technical excellence in an Agile team, ensuring high data availability while adopting AI-driven engineering practices within a governance-focused framework.

You will mentor junior engineers, enforce CI/CD and documentation standards, and work to enable trusted analytics across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or related field.
• 4–7+ years of data engineering experience.
• Advanced Python and SQL
• Experience with AWS-based data architectures
• Strong data modeling, schema design, and data warehousing knowledge
• Experience ingesting data from relational DBs, APIs, and cloud storage
• Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automation experience
• Experience integrating AI tools in engineering workflows with risk management
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and operational support of scalable data pipelines and platforms.
• Architect and implement batch and incremental data ingestion and transformation pipelines with monitoring.
• Contribute to evolution of the AWS-based data environment with security and cost optimization in mind.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Enforce engineering standards: version control, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation.
• Champion AI-driven engineering while ensuring data security and governance.
• Maintain platform readiness, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Integrate privacy, security, and access controls by design for regulatory alignment.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Data Modeling

Data Warehousing

APIs

Git

CI/CD

AI Tools

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Bachelors in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Automation

Job description

Indsafri is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and platforms. You will drive technical excellence in an Agile team, ensuring high data availability while adopting AI-driven engineering practices within a governance-focused framework.

You will mentor junior engineers, enforce CI/CD and documentation standards, and work to enable trusted analytics across the organization.