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Senior Data Engineer

Ovations Technologies Gauteng 7 days ago
Full-time
Engineering

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