Senior Data Platform Engineer — Health Data MVP

Blue Pearl PTY LTD; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Pearl PTY LTD in Johannesburg seeks an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a greenfield data platform initiative in the healthcare and medical scheme space. The role is highly technical and delivery-focused, building the MVP and establishing architecture, standards, and reusable patterns for long-term scalability and automation.

The successful candidate will translate business requirements into robust technical solutions while operating in a POPIA-sensitive health-data environment and

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in data platform engineering.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake, dbt, AWS, Fivetran and Power BI.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience implementing DataOps, CI/CD and data quality frameworks.
• Ability to operate in a POPIA-sensitive health-data environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the future-state data platform MVP, including scalable data pipelines and transformation processes.
• Develop and implement automated data ingestion and integration patterns.
• Build robust and reusable Snowflake data models aligned to business needs.
• Develop transformation workflows using dbt and analytics engineering practices.
• Implement data ingestion using Fivetran and establish reliable integration patterns.
• Design and implement automated data quality checks, testing and validation frameworks.
• Establish monitoring and controls to ensure data accuracy, reliability, availability and performance.
• Apply CI/CD practices across data and analytics engineering workflows.
• Promote DataOps to improve automation, deployment, monitoring and reliability.
• Support migration from legacy reporting to the target-state architecture.
• Establish reusable engineering standards, frameworks, patterns and documentation.
• Develop and support the Power BI reporting layer for the MVP.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Ensure security, governance, metadata management and POPIA considerations.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to Medscheme staff.
• Troubleshoot issues and improve performance, scalability and reliability.

Skills

Data platform engineering

Data pipelines

Analytics requirements translation

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

Fivetran

Power BI

Job description

Blue Pearl PTY LTD in Johannesburg seeks an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a greenfield data platform initiative in the healthcare and medical scheme space. The role is highly technical and delivery-focused, building the MVP and establishing architecture, standards, and reusable patterns for long-term scalability and automation.

The successful candidate will translate business requirements into robust technical solutions while operating in a POPIA-sensitive health-data environment and