Senior Data Engineer | Azure & Snowflake Pipelines Lead

Quona Capital; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Lula is building a modern data platform in a fast-growing fintech environment. We seek a Senior Data Engineer to own end-to-end data pipelines on Azure and Snowflake, collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to deliver reliable data for decision-making.

You will mentor engineers, drive data quality and cost improvements, and help scale Lula’s data capabilities in Cape Town, SA.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS or related field.
• 3-5 years of data engineering experience.
• Hands-on Snowflake and Azure experience.
• Experience with dbt and data modeling.
• CI/CD and IaC experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into scoped, sequenced delivery plans and communicate progress clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Own the design and delivery of complex data pipelines and data models end-to-end on Azure and Snowflake, documenting decisions.
• Create and maintain robust ELT/ETL products for batch, micro-batch and near real-time pipelines using Airbyte, Kafka, Azure Data Factory or similar tools.
• Assemble data sets meeting functional and non-functional requirements and develop operational and analytical data systems.
• Own reliability, monitoring, data quality and cost of pipelines; drive fixes and improvements when degraded.
• Follow test-driven development and uphold standards for testing, code quality and documentation.
• Work with Data, Analytics, ML Engineers and analysts; mentor juniors; contribute to hiring and onboarding.
• Demo work to stakeholders and create training material for solutions delivered.

Skills

SQL

Python

DBT

Azure

Airflow

Airbyte

Kafka

Terraform

CI/CD

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Airbyte

Terraform

Azure

Kafka

Job description

Lula is building a modern data platform in a fast-growing fintech environment. We seek a Senior Data Engineer to own end-to-end data pipelines on Azure and Snowflake, collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to deliver reliable data for decision-making.

You will mentor engineers, drive data quality and cost improvements, and help scale Lula’s data capabilities in Cape Town, SA.