Senior Data Engineer — Snowflake & Cloud Data Pipelines

Smart4 Cloud Limited; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart4 Cloud Limited in Cape Town or Johannesburg invites a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to lead the migration from legacy reporting to a modern, scalable data architecture. You will design Snowflake data models and pipelines, build automated ingestion, and support Power BI reporting for the MVP.

Ideal candidates bring strong Snowflake, AWS and Azure expertise, senior data engineering experience, and the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams to establish reusable patterns

Qualifications

• South African citizenship.
• Based in or able to work onsite in Cape Town or Johannesburg.
• Willing and able to work onsite 3 days per week.
• Strong senior-level experience in Data Engineering.
• Extensive hands-on Snowflake experience.
• Strong experience with AWS and Azure.
• Proven experience designing and implementing data pipelines and data models.
• Experience migrating from legacy reporting/data environments to modern data architectures.
• Strong SQL and data transformation skills.
• Experience with automated testing and data quality frameworks.
• Experience supporting Power BI reporting solutions.
• Solid understanding of cloud-based data architecture and engineering best practices.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the migration from legacy reporting processes to the target data architecture.
• Design and develop scalable Snowflake-based data models and data pipelines.
• Build automated ingestion and transformation processes across data sources.
• Work across AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Implement automated testing, data quality controls and monitoring.
• Establish robust engineering foundations, standards and reusable development patterns.
• Collaborate with data, architecture, BI and business stakeholders to deliver the MVP.
• Develop and support the Power BI reporting layer for the MVP.
• Contribute to the design of the future-state architecture and ensure scalability for subsequent phases.
• Champion engineering best practices around CI/CD, version control, documentation, testing and data quality.

Skills

Data engineering

Senior-level experience

SQL

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

Power BI

Job description

Smart4 Cloud Limited in Cape Town or Johannesburg invites a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to lead the migration from legacy reporting to a modern, scalable data architecture. You will design Snowflake data models and pipelines, build automated ingestion, and support Power BI reporting for the MVP.

Ideal candidates bring strong Snowflake, AWS and Azure expertise, senior data engineering experience, and the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams to establish reusable patterns