Senior Cloud Data Engineer – Remote – R800k to 1mil per annum

As a Senior Cloud Data Engineer , you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing cloud-agnostic data solutions, with a strong focus on Azure. Your expertise in Databricks, Spark, Lakehouse architectures, Delta Lake tables, and modern data engineering technologies will be essential in building and maintaining robust data pipelines.

This senior role requires technical excellence, leadership, and the ability to mentor junior engineers while independently tackling complex data engineering challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and optimize scalable cloud-agnostic data solutions using Azure, Databricks, Spark, Lakehouse, and Delta Lake tables.
• Develop, implement, and maintain big data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and storing structured and unstructured data.
• Manage and optimize data lake and data warehouse architectures for performance, cost, and scalability.
• Work within Azure environments (Azure Synapse, Data Factory, ADLS) to develop and maintain cloud-based data solutions.
• Implement DevOps best practices , CI / CD pipelines, and automation.
• Ensure security, compliance, and governance in all data processes.
• Utilize big data tools for processing large datasets efficiently.
• Write advanced Python and T-SQL scripts for data transformation and ETL / ELT processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop data-driven solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead technical initiatives.

Required Qualifications & Skills

The Reference Number for this position is NG60322 which is a Remote role offering a salary of R800k up to R1mil per annum salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on