Senior Data Engineer - Remote | Big Data & Cloud

Placements24; Upington; Híbrido; ZAR 1.000.000 - 1.300.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Performance bonuses

Health & wellness benefits

Generous paid time off

Home office stipend

Descripción de la vacante

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and maintain robust data pipelines and cloud-based data infrastructures. You will support data warehousing, BI and ML initiatives in a fully remote, distributed team, collaborating with data scientists and stakeholders.

Ideal candidates have strong programming skills, expertise in big data tech, and experience with AWS/Azure/GCP. The role emphasizes data quality, accessibility, and scalable architectures across South Africa.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering/IT.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Proven experience designing scalable data pipelines with Spark/Hadoop/Kafka.
• Proficiency in SQL and various databases (relational & NoSQL).

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, install, test and maintain scalable data systems and pipelines.
• Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes for data warehouses/data lakes.
• Build data architectures supporting analytics, ML workloads.
• Implement data governance, quality, and security standards.

Conocimientos

Big data

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

Python/Scala/Java

Cloud platforms

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Descripción del empleo

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and maintain robust data pipelines and cloud-based data infrastructures. You will support data warehousing, BI and ML initiatives in a fully remote, distributed team, collaborating with data scientists and stakeholders.

Ideal candidates have strong programming skills, expertise in big data tech, and experience with AWS/Azure/GCP. The role emphasizes data quality, accessibility, and scalable architectures across South Africa.