Senior Data Engineer - Financial Services, AWS

Blue Pearl PTY LTD; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Pearl PTY LTD is seeking two experienced Data Engineers to join a high-profile Financial Services programme. The successful candidates will analyse, document, and manage complex business and data requirements while supporting enterprise data initiatives.

They will work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, architects, and delivery teams to ensure data requirements are accurately translated into solutions that support business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification (minimum requirement).
• Additional Data, Agile, Business Analysis, or related certifications will be advantageous.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years' experience within the Financial Services sector.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Business Analysis and/or Feature Analysis.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Data Analysis.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Experience engaging and influencing senior business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse, document, and manage business and data requirements.
• Conduct feature analysis and develop detailed user stories.
• Define acceptance criteria and support backlog refinement activities.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Perform process analysis and identify optimisation opportunities.
• Conduct data analysis, data profiling, and data mapping activities.
• Develop and validate target-state data models.
• Support data governance, data lineage, and metadata management initiatives.
• Identify and assess data quality issues and recommend remediation actions.
• Collaborate with architects and development teams on solution design.
• Support testing activities and validate delivered solutions against requirements.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies across multiple workstreams.
• Support Agile delivery processes and programme milestones.

Skills

Requirements Elicitation

Business Analysis

Feature Analysis

User Story Development

Acceptance Criteria Definition

Workshop Facilitation

Process Analysis

Data Analysis

Data Mapping

Data Modelling

Data Governance

Data Lineage

Data Quality Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Backlog Management

Agile Delivery Support

Testing Support and Validation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

Additional Data, Agile, Business Analysis, or related certifications

Tools

Jira

Data Lineage Tools

Data Warehousing Tools

Job description

Blue Pearl PTY LTD is seeking two experienced Data Engineers to join a high-profile Financial Services programme. The successful candidates will analyse, document, and manage complex business and data requirements while supporting enterprise data initiatives.

They will work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, architects, and delivery teams to ensure data requirements are accurately translated into solutions that support business objectives.