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Data Engineer

Paracon

  • R Undisclosed
  • Contract Specialist position
  • Edenburg
  • Posted 16 Mar 2026 by Paracon
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2635316 - Ref 968844985430740
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To prepare data products and advance technical thought leadership for the Enterprise, to deliver fit for purpose data products for consumption by advanced analytics. Provide clean, usable data to whomever may require it.

Role Overview:

  • A Data Engineer designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and platforms that enable reliable data ingestion, storage, processing, and access.
  • The role focuses on transforming raw data into high-quality, trusted datasets that support analytics, reporting, and data science use cases.
Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines (batch and/or streaming)
  • Build and optimize data integration processes from multiple data sources
  • Develop and manage data models for analytics and reporting
  • Ensure data quality, accuracy, and reliability through validation and monitoring
  • Implement and maintain ETL/ELT workflows
  • Optimize data storage and query performance
  • Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders
  • Maintain documentation for data pipelines, schemas, and processes
  • Enforce data governance, security, and compliance standards
  • Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues in production environments
  • Support platform scalability, resilience, and cost optimization


Required Skills & Experience Technical Skills:

  • Strong proficiency in SQL Experience with Python, Scala, or Java
  • Hands-on experience with data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse)
  • Experience with ETL/ELT tools (e.g. Airflow, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Informatica)
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
  • Understanding of data modelling (star schema, snowflake, dimensional modeling)
  • Experience with version control (Git)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for data workloads
  • Data & Platform Knowledge Relational and NoSQL databases
  • File-based data formats (Parquet, Avro, JSON, CSV)
  • Data streaming concepts (Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis - advantage)
  • Performance tuning and query optimization

Desired Skills:

  • CI/CD data workloads
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Java
  • ETL/ELT
  • Azure
  • AWS

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Paracon facilitates the delivery of your business strategy through finding you the top ICT and technology talent. Our reputation, industry leadership and national reach enables us to empower our clients through attracting the ICT talent you need for your permanent and temporary employment workforce solutions. Paracon forms part of the Adcorp Group of Companies, an international parent company to a group of recruitment specialist brands who are engaged in the provision of comprehensive human capital; effective and efficient workforce management styles and skills development services. With ever-changing technology, choose us as your partner in the evolution of ICT talent. Trusted, experienced and dynamic in the way we do ICT talent management. Resourcing • Contracting recruitment: Utilising contractors allows you flexibility in your resourcing solutions. We manage all contract negotiation and administration through our professional and timeous processes. From short-term projects to long-term engagements, moving your business forward. • Permanent recruitment: Permanent placement of ICT professionals, includes full background checks and references. • Recruitment process: We will provide a tailored workforce managed solution, to search, source and identify talent to match the job specifications provided by our clients, Paracon is able to assess CVs via our various recruitment channels. Talent Development Talent Consulting PPM (Portfolio, Program and Project management services)

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