Data Engineer

Description

This roles responsibility is to design develop and maintain data-based solutions including ensuring that the operationalization of data pipelines and data stores are high-performing efficient organized and reliable given a set of business requirements and constraints.

The Data Engineer will build and maintain secure and compliant data processing pipelines by using different tools and techniques and maintain various data services and frameworks to store and produce cleansed and enhanced datasets for analysis. This includes data store design using different architecture patterns based on business requirements.

The incumbent will help identify and troubleshoot operational and data quality issues and design implement monitor and optimize data platforms to meet the data pipelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (internal and external) to ensure effective implementation set-up utilization and governance of the enterprise data platform across the organization.

This role contributes to the complete data function for data analytics business intelligence and advanced analytics. It requires a strong business focus and the individual understands the strategy and direction of the business but focuses on how to underpin that with data.

Requirements

REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION / TRAINING

• BCom or Bachelors degree in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering (IT) or similar
• Data Engineering tools (Azure Data Engineer) certification will be an added advantage
• ITIL or COBIT certification will be an added advantage

REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE / COMPETENCIES

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Closing date : 15 August 2025

Please note that correspondence will be limited to shortlisted candidates only. Applicants who have not heard from us within 30 days of the closing date may assume that their applications have been unsuccessful and are hereby thanked for their interest.

The filling of this position will be aligned with AFGRIs Employment Equity Policy.

Applicants are informed that in order to consider any application for employment we will have to process their personal information. A law known as the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) provides that when one processes anothers personal information such collection retention dissemination and use of that persons personal information must be done in a lawful and transparent manner.

In order to give effect to this right we are under a duty to provide you with a number of details pertaining to the processing of your personal information. These details are housed under the HR Processing Notice which can be accessed and viewed on the AFGRI Group website which HR Processing Notice we request you kindly download and read.

Work Level

Junior Management

Job Type

Permanent

Salary

Market Related

EE Position

Location

Centurion

Required Experience :

Junior IC

Key Skills

Apache Hive,S3,Hadoop,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Apache Pig,NoSQL,Big Data,Data Warehouse,Kafka,Scala

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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