Data Engineer

About the Role

Join a team at the forefront of regulatory reporting transformation. The team is building a strategic Regulatory Reporting Automation Platform that automates the preparation, validation, and submission of regulatory returns required by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). This platform replaces manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with a scalable, Python-based solution that enhances data quality, auditability, and operational efficiency. As a Data Engineer, you will contribute to a modern data platform that combines software engineering, data engineering, cloud technologies, and configurable rules engines to process large volumes of financial data and transform it into regulator-ready outputs.

Requirements

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology
• Advanced Python
• the core technical requirement for this role
• Strong SQL
• modelling principles and query optimisation
• Deep knowledge of AWS cloud data services
• Kubernetes and containerised data solutions
• Batch processing concepts and basic stream processing
• ETL pipeline design, including error handling and recovery mechanisms
• Data lake and data warehouse patterns
• Data quality and governance implementation
• CI/CD principles, version control and automated testing
• Infrastructure as code and workflow orchestration tool
• 5 years in data engineering or a closely related field
• what counts is direct involvement in solution implementation and integration
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to data engineering projects
• Strong, hands-on Python and AWS experience
• Backend application development experience
• Django or similar frameworks;
• API development experience
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• finance, IT, business analysts
• to understand business needs and deliver data-driven solutions, including communicating technical progress to non-technical stakeholders
• Snowflake experience is an advantage
• Clear criminal and credit record

Preferred Qualifications

• Honours Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology
• Application development and API design
• Django or a similar backend framework is advantageous