Senior Data Platform & Cloud Lead

Boardroom Appointments; Durban North; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks an experienced tech lead to provide cross-functional leadership in software development, architecture, and data platform projects. You will guide design decisions, enforce standards and contribute to ML-driven data pipelines and applications.

The role requires a strong background in IT, cloud technologies, and modern programming languages, with a proactive, self-managed approach to daily tasks and project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology; 5+ years experience in software development, design and architecture; ability to learn and use new technologies is highly valued; proven track record with adopting new tech.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across product to analyze, design and produce quality software and documentation by adhering to and improving the teams' standards and best practices.
• Support team alignment with organizational initiatives while safeguarding the architecture and growing product and commercial awareness.
• Drive the creation, design and implementation of the company data pipelines, warehouses and lakes and the applications that run on them; this includes machine learning applications.
• Provide technical leadership across the company beyond the team.
• Expect a day that varies and is driven by ensuring success of the above; be self-managed and proactive in day-to-day demands.

Education

Degree or Diploma in Information Technology

Tools

Azure / AWS and other cloud technologies

Python

C# / C++ (or equivalent)

SQL

DevOps

Kafka

Spark

DataBricks

Job description

Boardroom Appointments seeks an experienced tech lead to provide cross-functional leadership in software development, architecture, and data platform projects. You will guide design decisions, enforce standards and contribute to ML-driven data pipelines and applications.

The role requires a strong background in IT, cloud technologies, and modern programming languages, with a proactive, self-managed approach to daily tasks and project outcomes.