Senior Data Engineer: AWS Pipelines & AI Governance

JVR Software; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 520,000 - 780,000; Full time

Job summary

JVR Software in Centurion, South Africa, seeks a data engineer to own the ingestion, transformations, checks, and downstream data integrity. The role sits in a retail investments technology team, reporting to the Head of Application Development.

You will build and run data pipelines and the platform they sit on, set technical direction, and ensure governance while leveraging AI within approved boundaries. You will lead data engineering tasks, collaborate in an Agile environment, and contribute

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field; certification helps.
• 47+ years in data engineering with production pipelines and platforms.
• Strong AWS data architecture experience.
• Advanced Python and SQL.
• Data modelling, analytics-oriented schema design and warehousing.
• Ingestion from relational databases, cloud storage, APIs and files.
• Git, CI/CD and automation; Agile or SAFe delivery.
• Experience using AI in engineering work with checks.
• Power BI or similar BI tool is useful.
• Ability to explain constraints to business stakeholders and design choices to engineers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver data engineering work within an Agile team; plan, estimate, break features into tasks, and meet the quality bar.
• Design and build ingestion and transformation pipelines across systems and domains; batch and incremental.
• Shape solutions for the data platform, considering cost, security, performance and support impact.
• Coach less experienced data engineers on structures, availability and pipeline behavior.
• Review code and configuration; use Git, automated testing, CI/CD and structured releases.
• Document enough for others to support it.
• Use AI in the engineering workflow with approved tools only and validate output.
• Join incident response and root-cause analysis; build privacy and regulatory requirements from the start.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Analytics

Warehousing

Ingestion pipelines

AWS data architecture

AI in engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IS / Engineering

Tools

Power BI

Git

CI/CD

Job description

JVR Software in Centurion, South Africa, seeks a data engineer to own the ingestion, transformations, checks, and downstream data integrity. The role sits in a retail investments technology team, reporting to the Head of Application Development.

You will build and run data pipelines and the platform they sit on, set technical direction, and ensure governance while leveraging AI within approved boundaries. You will lead data engineering tasks, collaborate in an Agile environment, and contribute