Senior Data Engineer — Hybrid ETL & Cloud Data Platform

E-Merge; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 810,000 - 990,000; Full time

Job summary

E-Merge seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and modern data platforms. You will work with partners across data analysts, BI teams and software engineers to deliver robust data solutions.

The role emphasizes ETL/ELT, data warehousing, and governance, with cloud experience on AWS, Azure or GCP. Hybrid work from Johannesburg, competitive remuneration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in data engineering or related role.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.
• Proven ETL/ELT and data integration experience.
• Experience with relational and/or cloud databases.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing and dimensional modelling.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for reliable data processing.
• Build, enhance and optimise data warehouses and modern data platforms.
• Integrate and consolidate data from diverse sources and systems.
• Develop high-performance SQL queries and efficient data transformation processes.
• Maintain high standards of data quality, governance, security and availability.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and continuously optimise data pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborate with Data Analysts, BI Developers, Software Engineers and business stakeholders to deliver effective data solutions.
• Contribute to data architecture, automation and engineering best practices.
• Develop and support cloud-based data solutions to enable scalable and efficient data processing.

Skills

SQL

Python

Tools

Azure Data Factory

AWS Glue

Databricks

Snowflake

Power BI

Apache Spark

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

E-Merge seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and modern data platforms. You will work with partners across data analysts, BI teams and software engineers to deliver robust data solutions.

The role emphasizes ETL/ELT, data warehousing, and governance, with cloud experience on AWS, Azure or GCP. Hybrid work from Johannesburg, competitive remuneration.