Senior Data Engineer

Titan Wealth Introduction
In 2021, Titan Wealth set out to create a top-to-bottom, fully integrated service to make wealth management more efficient – and more effective – for individuals, advisers, businesses and investment professionals alike. We’re tackling the fragmentation holding back the wealth management sector, its clients and their advisers – to everyone’s frustration. By vertically integrating separate wealth service components under one roof for the first time, we’ve created a better way of working for everyone’s benefit.
Our values are:
Creativity – We relentlessly seek new ways of thinking and new methods of delivering, so we can keep rewriting the rulebook for wealth services.Commitment – It takes time, effort and energy to make an impact. There’s a ‘can do’ spirit in everything we do: for advisers, individuals, businesses and professional investors.Collaboration – Bringing the system together allows us to bring people together more effectively: around ambitions, assets, solutions, performance. We’re inviting people to join us and see for themselves the difference we can make as a whole.
Our Cape Town team: Your needs determine where you work – whether that be in our Cape Town office, your home or anywhere else in South Africa that suits your life. Cape Town is our ‘Tech Hub’ with the majority of our engineering team based there. We encourage a work life balance with flexibility on location and hours
One shared culture
- Multi-disciplinary teams working together on challenges and masterfully delivering award-winning, cutting-edge solutions.- An informal atmosphere where leaders are accessible to problem-solve or provide support – in person or remotely.- Your personal wellbeing is front and center with a commitment to making you feel comfortable. Learn more about Titan Wealth
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data solutions to enable efficient data management, integration, and analytics. This role involves ensuring data governance, security, and compliance while optimising data processing systems to meet business needs.
The Senior Data Engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and qa engineers, to enable data-driven decision-making. As a Senior Data Engineer, you welcome any chance to innovate and use your initiative but do so while implementing according to best practices to produce tested, secure, reliable, andscalable solutions

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with IT Infrastructure teams to ensure the data infrastructure is secure, stable, scalable, and architected for high availability, with built-in automation and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Collaborate with Data Analysts, Software Engineers, and Cloud Engineers as part of a team to contribute to the data architecture detail designs and ensure that data solutions deliver business value.
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric.
• Architect and optimise the data warehouse using Azure Data Services.
• Implement and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, ensuring that reasonable data quality checks are implemented in the data pipelines to maintain a high level of data accuracy, consistency and security.
• Oversee data ingestion, transformation, and integration to support business intelligence and analytics.
• Provide mentorship, training, and career development for data professionals.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies in data engineering, analytics, and Microsoft Fabric advancements.
• Support incident management by troubleshooting issues, tracking root causes, providing timely resolutions, and generating performance and incident reports.
• Develop and maintain documentation, including schemas, configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides, to support knowledge transfer and ensure consistency and reliability in data operations
• Conduct capacity planning and scalability assessments, forecasting resource requirements and growth trends, and recommending infrastructure upgrades or optimizations to accommodate future needs.
• Proactively assess the current implementations, configurations, processes, platforms, technologies, budgets, strategies, and plans.
• Adhere to change management processes, documenting and communicating changes, updates, and maintenance activities to stakeholders, and obtaining approvals as required.

Job Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Senior Data Engineer, with expertise in ETL/ELT processes, and pipelines.
• 2-3 years of experience designing and developing streaming data pipelines for ingestion or transformation using Azure Technologies.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and DevOps principles.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams, contributing to collaborative development processes.
• Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate, Fabric Data Engineer Associate or similar certifications
• ITIL, DevOps, or Agile certifications are a plus.

Job Requirements

• Experienced with Microsoft Azure and DevOps.
• Experienced with High Availability.
• Experienced with Data Ingestion.
• Experienced with Data Governance.
• Experienced with Data Warehousing and Data Lakes.
• Experienced with monitoring tools like DataDog.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining data warehouses and data lakes.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines/processes.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, and SQL.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Experience with data visualization tools.
• Experienced at working independently within a team and has the demonstrated knowledge and skills to deliver data outcomes without supervision

Why work for us?
- Flexible working environment with remote work as the focus, we use Workshop 17 at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town as a co-working location when face-to-face would be beneficial to the team. - We believe in a healthy work/life balance, especially with the shift to a remote work focus. We encourage our team members to take time off, refocus, and reenergize and that a healthy separation from work can be maintained. - We have an open, trusting, empowering, friendly and importantly informal and relaxed environment. Your ideas and experience could contribute to shaping how we work, what we work on and help us continually drive innovation and improvement. - Competitive salary – we keep up with the latest market trends and strive to pay competitively. - Competitive holiday leave – 20+ days’ annual leave (earn an extra day for every year worked, up to 3 extra days) - Performance-related discretionary annual bonus. - Retirement, Risk, and Medical-Aid contribution – we will contribute to a medical aid of your choosing. - Training budget allowance for further study or attending conferences, including paid days off to study.
The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation. We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members. We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities