Senior Data Engineer: SAP HANA, AWS & Data Transformation

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria, South Africa, seeks an Expert Data Engineer with deep SAP BW/HANA, AWS, Python and SQL expertise to drive data transformation and modelling initiatives. The role covers migration work, cloud-based data processing, and cross-functional collaboration across IT and business teams.

You’ll shape solution architectures, contribute to RCA-driven problem solving, and deliver robust documentation while working in an agile environment with flexible on-site/remote

Qualifications

• BSc degree and 15+ years of relevant data transformation and data modelling experience.
• Expert-level understanding of complex data environments and ability to solve difficult technical problems independently.
• Experience guiding or supporting other technical professionals.

Responsibilities

• Assist with migrating the product from ABW to CBW, including deployment, testing and resolving migration issues.
• Understand the complete solution landscape and how SAP BW, AWS, Java frontend and Gurobi work together.
• Setup and support AWS processes for CRUD operations, data synchronisation and system integration.
• Fix, enhance and optimise existing solutions.
• Conduct extensive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to identify real problems.
• Analyse complex technical issues and develop robust, sustainable solutions.
• Gather business requirements and translate into detailed technical solutions.
• Produce clear and useful technical documentation.
• Work within Agile frameworks, including JIRA-based delivery.
• Collaborate with technical teams, business stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Provide strategic technical advice and help manage stakeholder expectations.
• Share knowledge and provide guidance to other team members.

Skills

SAP ABAP

SQL

AMDP

CDS Views

SAP BW on Hana

Database & Data Warehouse design

AWS Glue / ETL

AWS Step Functions

AWS Lambda

AWS CloudWatch

AWS EventBridge

Amazon S3

Amazon Athena

Python

PySpark

VSCode

GitHub Deployments

Snowflake

Education

BSc in Computer Science / Mathematics / related field

Tools

Gurobi

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria, South Africa, seeks an Expert Data Engineer with deep SAP BW/HANA, AWS, Python and SQL expertise to drive data transformation and modelling initiatives. The role covers migration work, cloud-based data processing, and cross-functional collaboration across IT and business teams.

You’ll shape solution architectures, contribute to RCA-driven problem solving, and deliver robust documentation while working in an agile environment with flexible on-site/remote