Senior Data Integration Engineer — Real-Time, API-Driven

Pbt-Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 850,000 - 1,350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Job summary

PBT Group is expanding its Digital and Data capability to support real-time data exchange across enterprise ecosystems. We seek a Data Integration Engineer to design, build, and support backend integration services and APIs.

The role focuses on event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and scalable data pipelines, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver secure and performant solutions.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years in data integration and engineering.
• Strong experience with REST APIs and SQL.
• Experience with event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and messaging patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend integration services and middleware.
• Build scalable APIs enabling connectivity across enterprise systems.
• Develop RESTful APIs and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Integrate internal systems, third-party services, and cloud platforms.
• Design and implement event-driven solutions using Kafka or Azure Event Hubs.
• Create real-time data pipelines and reliable producer/consumer services.
• Apply advanced messaging patterns: routing, retries, replay processing.
• Develop cloud-native integration services using Confluent Kafka.
• Enable integration into enterprise data and analytics platforms.
• Collaborate with data and platform teams on scalable data exchange.

Skills

REST APIs

SQL

System integration

Event-driven

Distributed systems

Agile methods

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring

Security concepts

Tools

Kafka

Azure Event Hubs

Confluent Kafka

Application Insights

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Job description

PBT Group is expanding its Digital and Data capability to support real-time data exchange across enterprise ecosystems. We seek a Data Integration Engineer to design, build, and support backend integration services and APIs.

The role focuses on event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and scalable data pipelines, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver secure and performant solutions.