Data Engineering Lead - Sandton
R
1,6 million – 1,7 million
per annum
Sandton, Gauteng
Sandton,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
29-01-2024 6:32:21 AM
19-02-2024 6:32:21 AM
SUMMARY
Our Client from the Data Engineering and Financial Services industry is looking for a Business Enablement Lead. This role is to engage both technically and from a Technical Team Leadership role.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for end-to-end technical solutions. This means that key decisions, once discussed and debated are appropriately understood.
Collaborate with the Product Development Lead and Business Enablement Lead to ensure that all Stakeholder expectations are met
Manage the work items on behalf of the team, breaking down and assigning work items per sprint. Managing elements of sprint planning
DevOps CI/CD pipeline management, control and oversight
Engage other platform owners and agree on optimal integration paths and methods
Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Engage with clients in a client-centric manner
Self-management and Teamwork
Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas
Responsible for leveraging financial industry experience to build a modern, secure, scalable solution that is appropriate for the clients and partners of the Company
Contribute to Financial controls and planning
This company is the first in South Africa to take raw data to operating Data Solutions in seconds. If you love Data Engineering and want to be on a trajectory in technology and have a say in your career and the strategic decisions made in this role – Apply!
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Grade 12 or equivalent
A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or another closely related field.
5 – 8 years of working experience in related field
Proven work experience as a Senior Data Engineer, or as a Data Engineering Lead
Strong Data Bricks and Python skills are a must. SQL skills as an alternative to Python will be considered
Understand how big data solutions/NOSQL solutions differ from standardized data solutions and explain why choices made might be different.
Mature experience working with Cloud Services – Azure, AWS or GCP. This experience will allow the candidate to propose appropriate solutions and alternatives
Strong DevOps understanding including CI/CD