Job Description

Who are we?

Sanlam Life and Savings (SLS) is focused on serving our retail and corporate clients in South Africa and further developing our strategic advantages in the South African market. Sanlam Life and Savings consists of the following business units Retail Mass, Corporate, Risk and Savings, Glacier and various business enabling functions. The Sanlam Life and Savings Office provides strategic direction, coordination and support to the four clusters, as well as performing governance oversight that includes assurance provided by second line of defense functions in SLS, to enable us to meet our business objectives.

Role Description

Guided by Architecture and a Technical Team Lead you will be responsible for establishing new technology components and reusable solution patterns that can be leveraged by business facing development teams in their day-to-day solutions. You will constantly be developing and setting new principles, standards, processes, procedures and guidelines for the wider BI community.



You should be able to communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as be competent in communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. An understanding of data management solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organisation will be of importance. You will also be responsible for developing data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms and integrating systems; translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions.

What will you do?

Data Engineer Role points to include:

Working with other data engineers and data modelers, you will design, implement, and manage ETL programmes, data transformations and data pipelines that realise source to target mappings*.
Monitor and fine-tune data pipelines and data transformations using SQL, Spark, Cloudera Hadoop stack etc. Monitor and fine-tune data vaults, data transformations on the Cloudera Hadoop stack Involvement with system access to the data warehouse to ensure data security and integrity Monitor and support the operational processes and propose optimising solutions

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred

Experience and skills:

3- 5 years related experience Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required Experience in an operational support role and a passion for improving / optimising processes Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred Experience in three (3) or more of the following areas is required: Database technologies (e.g. SAP Hana, Big Data or similar) and database development (Views, Functions and Stored Procedure development) Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala ETL tools Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling

Personal Attributes

Decision quality - Contributing independently
Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

Build a successful career with us

We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters - Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Being resilient - Contributing independently
Collaborates - Contributing independently
Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
Customer focus - Contributing independently
Drives results - Contributing independently

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Closing date: 31 October 2025

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.