Principal Data Engineer
Cape Town, South Africa
ZAR 700K-840K (estimate) Senior-level Full Time
Tasks
- Architect data pipelines and storage solutions
- Automate data processing using AI
- Build streaming batch and real time workflows
- Collaborate with product, analytics, and data science teams
- Design scalable secure resilient data systems
- Evaluate and adopt new data tools and technologies
- Implement data governance security and observability best practices
- Lead Data platform architecture
- Provide technical direction and engineering leadership
- Support data teams with data engineering principles
Perks/Benefits
Skills/Tech-stack
AWS | Airflow | Azure | BigQuery | CI/CD | Cassandra | ClickHouse | DBT | Dagster | Data Governance | Data Modeling | Data Observability | Data Security | Data Warehousing | Data orchestration | GCP | Kafka | Kubernetes | MongoDB | NoSQL | OLAP | OLTP | Prefect | Python | SQL | SQL Server | Snowflake
Education
N/A
Roles
Data Engineer | Engineer | Principal | Principal Data Engineer
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