Senior Data Engineer
Location Johannesburg
Employment Type Permanent
Remote/Hybrid/On-site Hybrid
market-related salary
Are you passionate about building scalable, high-performance data solutions that drive business insights? We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join an exciting team focused on designing and maintaining robust data infrastructure.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building reliable data pipelines, optimizing data platforms, and enabling analytics through well-engineered data solutions. Please note: This is a Data Engineering role focused on infrastructure and data platforms—not machine learning or statistical modelling.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines
Develop and manage data lakes and data warehouses
Integrate data solutions with backend applications
Automate workflows and implement CI/CD for data pipelines
Build and optimize data models for analytics and operational reporting
Ensure data quality, integrity, security, and reliability
Monitor and optimize data pipeline performance
Collaborate with business stakeholders to deliver data-driven solutions
Build, automate, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports
Requirements
5+ years' experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL experience
Hands-on experience with DBT
Proficiency in Python (or another data processing language)
Experience with AWS services (including S3 and Lambda)
Solid understanding of data warehousing and data modelling
Experience with GitHub and CI/CD practices
Nice to Have
Exposure to analytics engineering or machine learning pipelines
If you're passionate about building reliable, scalable data platforms and enjoy solving complex data challenges, we'd love to hear from you!
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
