Senior Data Engineer – Cloud Data & Real-Time Analytics

Digital Outsource Services; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Daily Meal

Free On-Site Gym

Group Life Cover

Medical Aid Subsidy

On-site Barista

Retirement Annuity Subsidy

Leadership Training

Referral Bonus

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Digital Outsource Services in Cape Town seeks a data engineer to design and optimize cloud-based data pipelines, integrate lakehouse architectures, and drive real-time analytics.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data engineering, strong SQL, Python/Java/Scala, and hands-on with Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, Kafka, Spark, and Terraform.

This role offers learning opportunities and on-site amenities, with leadership development and mentoring focus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field plus strong data engineering experience.
• 5+ years delivering data pipelines and data lakehouse architectures.
• Certifications in cloud data analytics are a plus.

Skills

SQL

Python

Java

Scala

CI/CD for data pipelines

Data governance

Security best practices

Leadership

Mentoring

Monitoring

Real-time analytics

Cloud data pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

5+ years data engineering

Certifications: AWS Data Analytics Specialty

Tools

AWS Redshift

Azure Synapse

Google BigQuery

Delta Lake

Apache Iceberg

Apache Hudi

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Hadoop

Spark

Flink

Lambda

Job description

Digital Outsource Services in Cape Town seeks a data engineer to design and optimize cloud-based data pipelines, integrate lakehouse architectures, and drive real-time analytics.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data engineering, strong SQL, Python/Java/Scala, and hands-on with Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, Kafka, Spark, and Terraform.

This role offers learning opportunities and on-site amenities, with leadership development and mentoring focus.