Senior Azure Data Engineer (Johannesburg)

A well-established and long-serving banking group, recognised as Africa’s largest lender by assets and a leading financial services provider, is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join the technology team. The organisation is committed to delivering world-class banking, insurance, and asset management solutions, driven by strong data capabilities.

The successful candidate will be responsible for executing data engineering activities in line with the bank’s standards, frameworks, and strategic data roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end data architecture across multiple application platforms
• Analyse data elements, source systems, and data flows to support enterprise data solutions
• Build and maintain scalable infrastructure for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL/ELT)
• Develop, manage, optimise, and monitor robust data pipelines
• Create data tooling that enables data consumers to efficiently build and optimise data consumption solutions
• Design, define, and develop APIs to support data integration and access
• Develop solutions across multiple application platforms and environments
• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and data processes
• Apply knowledge of integration patterns, styles, protocols, and systems
• Collaborate with technology teams and country data teams to deliver viable data solutions aligned to architectural guidelines

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree in business commerce, information studies, information technology
• 5-7 years’ experience in building databases, warehouses, reporting and data integration solutions
• 8-10 years deep understanding of data pipelining and performance optimisation
• 8-10 years’ experience in database programming languages
• Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake (ADLS Gen2), Azure SQL Database / SQL Managed Instance, Azure Functions & Logic Apps, Azure DevOps
• Kafka
• Spark / Spark SQL
• Power BI
• Python

The Reference Number for this position is NG61005 which is a Permanent Hybrid position in Johannesburg offering a salary of up to R1.2mil CTC salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on nokuthulag@ e-Merge.co.za or call her for a chat on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.