Senior Data Platform Engineer - Hybrid Contract (5 mos)

Blue Pearl PTY; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Medscheme in Johannesburg is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead a greenfield data platform initiative in a healthcare setting. The role focuses on building an MVP, establishing architecture standards, and enabling scalable data ingestion, modeling and automation for sensitive health data.

You will work independently in a delivery-driven environment, applying strong data engineering practices, DataOps, and security governance to deliver robust analytics capabilities and a Power BI reporting

Qualifications

• Direct, practical experience across the modern cloud data engineering stack.
• Hands-on design and implementation of scalable data platforms.
• Strong data modelling and SQL capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the future-state data platform MVP with scalable pipelines.
• Develop automated ingestion and integration patterns and Snowflake models.
• Develop transformations using dbt and implement CI/CD for analytics engineering.
• Establish DataOps, data quality checks and monitoring for reliability.
• Support migration to target-state architecture and Power BI layer.
• Transfer knowledge to Medscheme teams and ensure governance and security.

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

Fivetran

Power BI

Advanced SQL

CI/CD for analytics engineering

DataOps

Metadata management

Data integration

Job description

Medscheme in Johannesburg is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead a greenfield data platform initiative in a healthcare setting. The role focuses on building an MVP, establishing architecture standards, and enabling scalable data ingestion, modeling and automation for sensitive health data.

You will work independently in a delivery-driven environment, applying strong data engineering practices, DataOps, and security governance to deliver robust analytics capabilities and a Power BI reporting