Senior Data Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a high-impact greenfield data platform initiative within the healthcare and medical scheme administration environment.

This is a highly technical, delivery-focused role responsible for building the future-state MVP and establishing the foundational architecture, engineering standards and reusable patterns required to support the long-term scalability and automation of the data platform.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working independently, translating business and analytics requirements into robust technical solutions, and operating within a POPIA-sensitive health-data environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build the future-state data platform MVP, including scalable data pipelines and transformation processes.
  
• Develop and implement automated data ingestion and integration patterns.
  
• Build robust and reusable Snowflake data models aligned to business and analytics requirements.
  
• Develop transformation workflows using dbt, applying modern analytics engineering practices.
  
• Implement data ingestion using Fivetran and establish reliable integration patterns.
  
• Design and implement automated data quality checks, testing and validation frameworks.
  
• Establish monitoring and controls to ensure data accuracy, reliability, availability and performance.
  
• Apply CI/CD practices across data and analytics engineering workflows.
  
• Implement and promote DataOps practices to improve automation, deployment, monitoring and operational reliability.
  
• Support migration from legacy reporting processes to the target-state data architecture.
  
• Establish reusable engineering standards, frameworks, patterns and documentation for future phases of the platform.
  
• Develop and support the Power BI reporting layer required for the MVP.
  
• Collaborate with business, analytics and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  
• Ensure solutions are designed with appropriate security, governance, metadata management and POPIA considerations.
  
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to Medscheme staff, supporting the sustainable adoption of the new platform.
  
• Troubleshoot technical issues and continuously improve the performance, scalability and reliability of the data platform.
  

Requirements

Required Technical Skills

The successful candidate must have strong, hands-on experience with the following technologies and disciplines:

• Snowflake
  
• dbt
  
• AWS
  
• Fivetran
  
• Power BI
  

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