Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Data Engineer (D)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

This is a 6 – month contract with our client in the Fintech industry

We are looking for a strategic and hands-on Manager: AI Data Engineer to lead the design, construction, and operation of data pipelines and data products purpose-built for AI and advanced analytics.

Key Responsibilities

  • AI Data Architecture: Design and implement scalable batch and streaming data pipelines to support model training, feature generation, and real-time inference.
  • Feature Stores & Data Products:
    Build, standardise, and operate feature stores to ensure consistency between training and inference across the group.
  • Data Governance & Observability:
    Enforce end-to-end data lineage, traceability, and automated quality checks. Build pipeline observability to proactively detect data drift and anomalies.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with MLOps, AI Platform Engineering, Security, and Risk teams to deliver compliant, production-ready, and high-quality data assets.
  • Compliance & Privacy: Ensure all AI datasets comply with local market regulations, data sovereignty, and security standards (privacy-by-design).

Requirements

Education:

  • Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science, Big Data, Information Systems, Engineering, or an AI/Data-related field.

Experience & Skills:

  • 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, specifically building large-scale batch/streaming pipelines and feature engineering pipelines.
  • Proven experience with Cloud Data Platforms (Azure is a strict requirement)
  • Deep understanding of both structured and unstructured data processing.
  • Strong knowledge of feature store concepts, data pipeline orchestration, and pipeline observability.
  • Advantageous: Experience within Fintech, Financial Services, Telco, or heavily regulated, large-scale environments.
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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