Data Engineer

Pretoria
Salary: Market Related
Job Type: Permanent
Sectors: IT
Reference: JHB006517/TM

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Employer: Datacentrix (Pty) Ltd

Are you a Data Engineering expert passionate about optimizing data architectures and enabling powerful insights? Join us for a 12-month contract to shape the future of data-driven decision-making at a leading financial institution.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

Design and implement cutting-edge data strategies and systems in collaboration with IT, Enterprise Information Management and business teams
Build robust infrastructure to handle and automate large volumes of data with precision and efficiency
Enhance and maintain data pipelines and architectures to support cross-functional teams
Deliver transformative visual analytics solutions (e.g., dashboards) for actionable insights
Champion data governance, ensuring data quality, security, and accessibility
Mentor stakeholders on leveraging our Data Ecosystem effectively

Key Responsibilities:

Assemble complex data sets to meet diverse business needs
Automate processes and redesign infrastructure for scalability
Collaborate across departments to address data challenges and drive innovative solutions
Develop data ingestion frameworks and ensure high data quality standards
Influence business processes with cutting-edge data strategies

Qualifications & Experience:

An appropriate Post-Graduate qualification (BSc, Engineering or similar).
Relevant programming qualifications and / or certifications
Relevant Agile certification is preferable
10 - 12 years’ experience in a Data Engineering role building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets
Constructing data acquisition, warehousing and reporting solutions
Advanced working SQL knowledge and 5 years’ experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL)
Experience with a variety of databases, technologies, languages and visualisation engines (Power BI, Tableau, SAS)
3-4 years’ experience building analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer management, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics

Skills & Tools:

Core: SQL, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Data Lakes, Data Modelling
Technologies: OBIEE, Informatica, Teradata, Relational Databases
Expertise: Data pipelines, Performance Metrics, Data Governance

Competencies:

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About Datacentrix (Pty) Ltd

At a Glance

Our Business:

Datacentrix is a leading, empowered ICT integrator that provides high performing and secure ICT solutions to corporate South Africa and the country’s public services sector.

Our Footprint:

Datacentrix operates from regional branch offices in Pretoria, Samrand, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban, with a network of small medium enterprises (SMEs) and service personnel around South Africa that are responsible for servicing remote areas.
Our Partners: Datacentrix’ global partnerships with its technology partners remain critical to the company’s success. The company is accredited by its vendors at the highest possible level both in the technical and sales arenas, which enhances the company’s strategic value as a single source service provider.

To achieve this, Datacentrix invests in its people through training and education, embracing broad based black economic empowerment (BBBEE), while actively partnering and representing leading technology partners with distinction.

Vision

Datacentrix intends to become the preferred ICT partner to the majority of South Africa's top commercial and public sector organisations over the next five years.