Senior Data Platform Engineer – GCP & Integrations

Mothers2Mothers

Cape Town

On-site

ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Retirement plan

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Job summary

mothers2mothers is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and secure the data architecture for its digital ecosystem in Cape Town. You will own the data infrastructure, establish Google Cloud Platform as the primary data repository, and drive resilience across platforms.

You will lead CHARM Central transition, manage data flows, APIs, and integrations with DHIS2, CommCare, Salesforce, and other systems, while documenting architecture and ensuring data quality and availability for

Qualifications

Bachelor-level or higher in a Computer Science, IT, Data or related field.
Five+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform engineering.
Experience designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and APIs.
Proven ability to manage production data environments and enterprise-scale data platforms.
Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (GCP preferred).
Strong documentation and governance habits.

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain enterprise data architecture and data integration strategy.
Establish GCP as central repository for programme and platform data.
Design data flows between apps, databases, reporting platforms and external systems.
Develop and support ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs and integration services.
Integrate platforms like DHIS2, CommCare, Salesforce and future systems.
Ensure data architecture supports scalability, security, reliability and growth.
Maintain comprehensive documentation of architecture, data flows and processes.
Ensure data structures support reporting, analytics and learning needs.