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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

Data / BI Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R Undisclosed
  • Contract Intermediate position
  • Cape Town
  • Posted 29 Jun 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2641543 - Ref 878000021120387
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About the position

We are seeking a Mid/Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data solutions that support business intelligence, analytics, and strategic decision-making. This is a hands-on role focused on developing modern data pipelines, data warehouses, and Power BI solutions while ensuring data quality, performance, and reliability.


Working closely with business and technical teams, you will translate business requirements into robust data solutions and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the organization's data platform and architecture.




RequirementsKey Responsibilities and Skills
Technical Solution Development

  • Translate business requirements into technical data solutions.
  • Participate in and contribute to architectural forums within the Business Intelligence (BI) team.
  • Design and implement ETL/data pipeline architectures using tools like ADF (Azure data factory).
  • Automate processes and design system architectures.
  • Develop and manage Power BI semantic models, including understanding DAX queries and cubes.
  • Visualisation and Dashboarding: translate metrics into visual Power BI reports
  • Integrate data between legacy and modern systems.
  • Create ad-hoc SQL scripts to support user queries.
  • Deploy and manage data solutions on cloud platforms like Azure.
Data Modeling and Management
  • Understanding of Data Warehouse modeling and Techniques: Data schemas, Facts, dimensions and building data warehouses.
  • Writing complex SQL queries, joins, views and stored procedures to extract and manipulate data.
  • Apply knowledge and practical experience in the Data Warehouse Life Cycle.
  • Perform data modeling including dimensional, multi-dimensional, and relational models.
  • Utilize TSQL for database management and querying.
  • Support batch processing and scheduling tasks.
Documentation and Support
  • Create and maintain technical documentation such as data architecture diagrams, ETL workflows, and system documentation to ensure maintainability.
  • Participate in design, peer, and code reviews.
  • Provide daily technical, functional, and operational support for existing BI solutions.
Monitoring and Optimization
  • Monitor data pipeline and infrastructure performance.
  • Identify bottlenecks and optimize for scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues.
Strategic and Emerging Technology Contributions
  • Contribute to evolving the architecture towards modern platforms, whether on-premise or cloud-based.
  • Maintain working knowledge of Power BI reporting.
  • Ensure technical skills stay relevant to emerging industry trends and organizational strategies, including Azure Cloud Solutions and Artificial Intelligence initiatives.
 




Desired Skills:

  • Business Intelligence (BI)
  • ETL/data pipeline architectures
  • Power BI

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Diploma

About The Employer:


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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

About the agency

Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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