Snr. Data Engineer (Located in South Africa)

KnowBe4; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

KnowBe4, located in Cape Town, South Africa, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to collaborate with business stakeholders on data-driven strategies. You will design data models, create predictive algorithms, and optimize data pipelines to boost business productivity and efficiency.

The role requires advanced expertise in Python and SQL, plus strong knowledge of data lakes, warehousing, and analytics. You will communicate complex data concepts with non-technical audiences and adopt new data tooling in

Qualifications

• BS or equivalent with 8+ years of experience
• MS or equivalent with 3+ years of experience
• Ph.D. or equivalent with 2+ years of experience
• Strong programming with Python and SQL
• Experience with data lake, data warehousing and analytics
• Ability to model data and design data pipelines
• Ability to visualize data and communicate complex concepts to non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand goals and identify data-driven strategies
• Design data modeling processes and algorithms to extract business insights
• Develop and optimize data pipelines and analytics workflows
• Communicate complex data concepts through clear visualizations
• Identify opportunities and lead data orchestration and modeling projects
• Serve as SME in data warehousing and analytics and adopt new tooling

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Data analysis

Data warehousing

Data lake

Visualization

Education

BS/BA plus 8+ years

MS/MA plus 3+ years

PhD plus 2+ years

Job description

Snr. Data Engineer (Located in South Africa)

Cape Town, South Africa

KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.

Snr. Data Engineer work closely with business stakeholders to understand their goals and identify data-driven strategies to achieve those goals. They design data modeling processes, create algorithms and predictive models to extract the insight the business needs and help analyze the data to increase the productivity and efficiency of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Expertise working experience with programming languages like Python, and SQL
• Solid understanding of data lake, data warehousing and analytics
• Research, design, and implement data modeling designs to solve complex problems
• Communicate complex concepts and data pipelines to non-technical audiences through data visualizations
• Identify opportunities and formulate data orchestration and data modeling projects to optimize business impact
• Serve as a subject matter expert in data warehouse and analytics research, and adopt the new tooling and methodologies in Knowbe4

Qualifications:

• BS or equivalent plus 8 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
• Ph.D. or equivalent plus 2 years experience

We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits .

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.

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