Data Engineer Technical Lead (contract)

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description


Leadership:

  • Demonstrated ability to act as a tech lead, guiding the design, development, and implementation of data solutions while ensuring alignment with best practices and the company and its client's objectives.
  • Skilled in mentoring and supporting team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Strong technical decision-making abilities, prioritisation of tasks, and managing resources to meet project deadlines.
Collaboration Across Teams:
  • Proven ability to build strong partnerships with product, technology, and business stakeholders, actively listening to understand their needs and challenges and adjusting approach and thinking accordingly.
Personal Growth Mindset, Problem-Solving & Adaptability:
  • Adopt an AI-led development mindset by integrating AI tools and automation into the software development lifecycle, leveraging AI for code generation, testing, debugging, and optimisation to enhance productivity.
  • Deep interest in learning and adopting emerging technologies, particularly in the rapidly evolving AI and data landscape.
  • Proactive approach to problem solving, solution design and the development process as well as associated challenges.
  • Enjoy working in a fast paced and changing environment, with the ability to react and adapt quickly to changes.
Communication:
  • Ability to convey technical insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders clearly and effectively.
Technical Skills
Data Architecture & Engineering:
  • Data architecture experience, designing scalable, high-performance data platforms to support data analytics, AI/ML data pipelines and batch/real-time data processing.
  • Expertise in defining data modelling strategies, data governance, and security best practices to ensure efficient data flow across systems.
Database Management and Optimisation:
  • Proficiency in managing Snowflake, PostgreSQL or similar tools, including schema design, query optimisation, and performance tuning.
  • Experience with vector databases for integrating vector embeddings.
Data Pipelines and Integration:
  • Expertise in creating and managing ETL/ELT pipelines to handle large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
  • Familiarity with DBT or similar tools.
Automation, AI/ML Models, Agents:
  • Hands-on experience deploying, fine-tuning, and integrating AI models (e.g., transformers, embeddings) into data platforms.
  • Knowledge of LangChain and or other frameworks.
  • Experience implementing AI agents for data collection and process automation.
  • Experience in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows.
Cloud and DevOps:
  • Understanding of cloud services with a focus on data storage, compute, and AI/ML integrations.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines for managing deployments.
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  • Job Id
    JD1422984
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
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