Senior Data Engineer – Hybrid (Snowflake/dbt) 12‑Month Contract

IQbusiness South Africa; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

IQbusiness South Africa is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month contract to collaborate with an international partner from our Welgemoed, Cape Town offices. This hybrid role includes 3 days on-site and 2 days working from home.

You will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and Snowflake architectures, using dbt for transformation, with a focus on data quality, governance, and observability across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar data-focused role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake architecture, design, and administration (mandatory).
• Strong hands-on experience with dbt (mandatory).
• Experience designing multi-tenant or multi-schema data warehouse architectures within Snowflake.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Experience building ingestion pipelines that leverage AI or machine learning models.
• Experience designing and operating data pipelines in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD workflows.
• Solid understanding of data modelling (Kimball/Dimensional).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimise scalable data pipelines.
• Architect Snowflake environments, security frameworks, and data governance.
• Develop and maintain dbt models with modularity, testing, and documentation.
• Build ingestion pipelines using Snowpipe, Streams, and Tasks.
• Implement AI-driven ingestion to process unstructured data.
• Optimise Snowflake cost and performance.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability across transformations.
• Collaborate with analytics, product, and data science teams to deliver datasets.
• Automate deployments and workflows using Git-driven processes.
• Maintain documentation and share knowledge with the team.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

End-user requirement gathering

Data pipeline design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Data Science or related

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Git

CI/CD

Job description

IQbusiness South Africa is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month contract to collaborate with an international partner from our Welgemoed, Cape Town offices. This hybrid role includes 3 days on-site and 2 days working from home.

You will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and Snowflake architectures, using dbt for transformation, with a focus on data quality, governance, and observability across cloud environments.