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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

Senior Data Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R02 - R03 per month
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Pretoria
  • Posted 06 May 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2638338 - Ref 878000019508041
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Senior Data Engineer
Build the backbone of a modern data platform


Are you a hands-on Data Engineering leader who thrives on building scalable, production-grade data platforms? Do you enjoy owning solutions end-to-end—from architecture to deployment—while mentoring others and shaping best practices?


We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in designing and scaling a next-generation data platform that powers analytics, data science, and business-critical insights.


Why this role?
This isn’t just another pipeline-building role. You’ll:


  • Architect and own end-to-end data solutions
  • Work on modern lakehouse/warehouse architectures
  • Influence engineering standards, governance, and observability
  • Mentor a growing team and shape the future of data engineering
What you’ll be doing
Architecture & Technical Leadership
  • Design scalable, secure, and high-performance data platforms
  • Define and enforce best practices across data modelling, CI/CD, and IaC
  • Lead development of batch and real-time pipelines
  • Drive standards for data quality, governance, and observability
Data Engineering & Platform Delivery
  • Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines and workflows
  • Integrate data from APIs, third-party systems, and streaming platforms
  • Manage orchestration, scheduling, and performance tuning
  • Deliver curated datasets for analytics and BI use cases
Quality, Operations & Ownership
  • Ensure data reliability through validation, reconciliation, and testing
  • Own production pipelines: monitoring, alerting, and incident resolution
  • Implement observability by design (logs, lineage, metrics)
  • Support automated deployments and post-release validation
Leadership & Collaboration
  • entor and guide data engineers across the team
  • Collaborate with Data Scientists, Analysts, Product & Engineering teams
  • Translate business needs into scalable, technical solutions
  • Contribute to hiring, standards, and continuous improvement


RequirementsMust-have
  • 10+ years in Data Engineering or similar
  • Strong SQL expertise
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Data Factory, and Power BI
  • Proven track record building scalable, production-grade pipelines
  • Solid understanding of data modelling and architecture patterns
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure)
  • Strong system design and problem-solving ability
Nice to have
  • Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)
  • Infrastructure as Code experience
  • Exposure to ML/data science pipelines
  • Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance
  • Prior leadership or mentoring experience


Desired Skills:

  • SQL
  • ETL/ELT
  • Data Modelling
  • Cloud Data Platforms
  • Orchestration & Workflow Management
  • Data Engineering Tools
  • Data Quality

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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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