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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

Senior Data Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R Undisclosed
  • Contract Senior position
  • Cape Town
  • Posted 16 Feb 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2633321 - Ref 878000016631248
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About the position

An experienced Senior Data Engineer is required to support and scale data engineering pipelines that power Product Health dashboards across multiple business units.
The role focuses on maintaining, enhancing, and optimising data pipelines to ensure high data integrity, reliability, and performance, enabling accurate reporting and executive insights.


You will collaborate with Product Heads, Analysts, Architects, and business stakeholders to evolve and strengthen the data ecosystem.




RequirementsKey Responsibilities
Data Pipeline Development & Maintenance


  • Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines


  • Develop solutions within AWS environments


  • Ensure pipelines are secure, monitored, and production-ready


  • Implement logging, alerting, and performance monitoring


Data Modelling & Architecture


  • Design and optimise data models (normalised and denormalised)


  • Align with enterprise data architecture standards


  • Support analytics and reporting requirements


Data Quality & Governance


  • Ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency


  • Support governance requirements (classification, retention, privacy)


  • Perform unit and integration testing


Reporting & Visualisation Support


  • Support and enhance Power BI dashboards


  • Contribute to executive reporting


  • Develop and implement new KPIs


Stakeholder Collaboration


  • Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions


  • Contribute to solution documentation


  • Support onboarding and knowledge transfer


Documentation & Handover


  • Maintain architecture diagrams and data flow documentation


  • Document transformation logic and implementation guidelines


  • Provide structured handover to internal teams


Deliverables
  • Technical solution design documentation


  • Production-ready data pipelines


  • Optimised data models and schemas


  • Monitoring and logging frameworks


  • Complete documentation and handover packs


Minimum Requirements
  • Bachelor’s Degree or National Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, or related field


  • 5+ years’ experience as a Data Engineer in enterprise environments


  • Strong ETL/ELT design and optimisation experience


  • Experience with AWS data services


  • Advanced SQL and data modelling expertise


  • Experience supporting BI tools (Power BI advantageous)


  • Understanding of data governance and data quality principles


  • Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams




Desired Skills:

  • ETL
  • POWER BI
  • AWS
  • SQL
  • data modelling
  • data governance

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Diploma

About The Employer:


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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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