Azure Senior Data Engineer – 100% REMOTE – R1.1M PA

Were looking for a Senior Data Engineer with just the right amount of quirk, craft, and computational wizardry to help us take things up a notch (or twelve).

You will work within a team solving complex problems to deliver real business value across a wide range of industries such as mining, telcos, retail and financial services. You will help develop best practices and drive improvements in data engineering across the

Business!!

Requirements :

• Graduate or Postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,
• Statistics, Engineering or related technical field
• 8+ years of relational SQL database
• Solid understanding of Apache Spark as a distributed data processing framework
• Experience in designing, implementing and performance tuning solutions in Apache Spark
• Experience in complex data warehouse and data lake design
• Experience in building, optimising and manging data pipelines for large and complex datasets
• Experience using Azure cloud data platform technologies :
• Azure Storage / Data Lake
• Azure SQL Database
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Databricks
• Azure Synapse Analytics to implement data pipelines and analytical solutions
• Experience in Python would be beneficial
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Spark streaming or Kafka would be beneficial
• A relevant data engineering certification would be beneficial

Reference Number for this position is GZ60673 which is a permanent REMOTE position offering a cost to company salary of R1.1m per annum