Senior Data Engineer: Snowflake, SQL & Platform Lead

Srg Recruitment (Pty) Ltd; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Srg Recruitment (Pty) Ltd is seeking a Senior Data Engineer (Level 1) to lead design, build, and operation of data pipelines and platform capabilities across analytics, billing, experimentation, AI/ML workloads, and reporting. The role is hands-on with ownership, cloud-native platforms, and end-to-end domain responsibility.

You will mentor Level 1 and 2 engineers, align with analytics, platform, and product stakeholders, and champion automated, scalable data solutions while improving quality and

Qualifications

• 5–9 years of experience in data engineering.
• Deep SQL and Python with production data pipelines.
• Snowflake expertise including RBAC and performance tuning.
• Advanced dbt experience with multi-project patterns.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure) and IaC.
• Familiarity with SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with data quality, observability, and monitoring in production.

Responsibilities

• Owning the design, development, and long-term operation of ELT pipelines and curated data products across one or more domains.
• Setting the modelling approach across staging, intermediate, and data mart layers in Snowflake, and ensuring reusable, well-tested patterns are followed by the team.
• Leading data ingestion and exposure of new data sources for major products, features, and business initiatives, from discovery through to production.
• Defining and evolving data quality, monitoring, and observability standards used across the team.
• Driving cost efficiency, query performance, and storage optimisation within Snowflake, including warehouse strategy, clustering, and access patterns.
• Owning schema evolution, data lineage, and documentation for your domain, and setting the expectation for how these are handled across the platform.
• Contributing to platform standards, tooling, and architectural direction alongside Lead Engineers and the Platform team.
• Leading production support for your domain, including on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortems.
• Mentoring Level 1 and Level 2 engineers through code review, pairing, and technical guidance, and supporting their growth.
• Partnering with Analytics Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, AI/ML Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Software Engineers to shape and deliver end-to-end data solutions.
• Championing automation and AI-assisted development techniques to improve pipeline quality, documentation, and delivery speed.
• Continuously evaluating modern data and AI-driven approaches, and influencing those that are invested in.

Skills

SQL

Python

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

Terraform

Openflow

Git

Job description

Srg Recruitment (Pty) Ltd is seeking a Senior Data Engineer (Level 1) to lead design, build, and operation of data pipelines and platform capabilities across analytics, billing, experimentation, AI/ML workloads, and reporting. The role is hands-on with ownership, cloud-native platforms, and end-to-end domain responsibility.

You will mentor Level 1 and 2 engineers, align with analytics, platform, and product stakeholders, and champion automated, scalable data solutions while improving quality and