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Expert Data Engineer

Pretoria, Tshwane🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-27

Core

Designing and building secure, scalable, real-time data integration solutions and pipelines that make enterprise data available and trusted.

Role type

Expert Data Engineer (Real-time Streaming & Integration)

Builds

Real-time data pipelines, event streaming platforms, and API-based integrations for enterprise consumption.

Domain

Technology / Data Engineering / Real-time Streaming

Required skills

Kafka, event streaming, Python, Java, enterprise databases, NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB), data modeling, schema registries (Avro, Protobuf), data quality, metadata management, ETL/ELT, observability (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana)

Preferred skills

Kubernetes/EKS, SAP integration, big data ecosystems (EMR, S3, Hadoop), AWS analytics services (Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Redshift, Lake Formation, MSK), message delivery semantics, capacity planning

Responsibilities

Designing data pipelines and platforms, operating streaming platforms (Kafka/MSK), building API-based integrations, ensuring data quality and lineage, optimizing enterprise database performance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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