Senior Data Engineer (AWS)- Johannesburg – R800k to R1mil per annum

E-Merge; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading African Corporate Investment Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer (AWS) in Johannesburg. This role involves creating data models, optimizing cloud workloads, and developing best practices in data engineering. The ideal candidate will have extensive AWS experience and coding skills to deliver business value across various industries. A permanent hybrid position offering a competitive salary of R800k to R1 million per annum based on experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field required.
• 5 Years Python / C# Development experience.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner preferred.

Responsibilities

• Creating data models from various sources and store it in a usable format.
• Lead design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale data solutions.
• Utilize expertise in SQL and strong understanding of ETL processes.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

ETL

AWS Lambda

Python

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS S3

AWS RDS

AWS Redshift

Terraform

Job description

Senior Data Engineer (AWS)- Johannesburg – R800k to R1mil per annum

POSITION INFO :

A leading African Corporate Investment Bank and part of one of the largest financial services groups that are passionate Solutionists who offer clients innovative advisory, funding, trading, corporate and principal investing solutions have a vacant role for a Senior AWS Data Engineer to work within a team solving complex problems to deliver real business value across a wide range of industries such as well as helping develop best practices and drive improvements in data across the business.

Responsibilities :

• Creating data models from various sources and store it in a usable format.
• Lead the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale, critical,
• Utilize expertise in SQL and have a strong understanding of ETL and data modelling.
• Ability to ingest data into AWS S3, perform ETL into RDS or Redshift.
• Use AWS Lambda (C# or Python) for event-driven data transformations.
• Designing and implementing security measures to protect data from unauthorized
• access or misuse.
• Work on automating the migration process in AWS from development to production.
• Deliver digestible, contemporary, and immediate data content to support and
• Delivery planning, estimating and analysis, data architecture and pipeline design,

production implementation.

• Design and implementation of complex data solutions
• Optimise cloud workloads for cost, scalability, availability, governance, compliance,

Qualifications and Experience :

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified SysOps Associate, AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Associate, AWS Certified Architect Professional, Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate
• 5 Years Python / C# Development

The Reference Number for this position is NG59430 which is a Permanent, Hybrid position in Johannesburg offering a salary of R800k up to R1mil per annum salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on -Merge.co.za or call her for a chat on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Senior Data Engineer • Johannesburg, South Africa