Senior Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer (AWS)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaAll locationsCape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaJohannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaCenturion, Gauteng, South AfricaGqeberha, Eastern Cape, South AfricaRemote (SA), Remote, Gauteng, South AfricaUmhlanga, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Remote
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About the role
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer to join our Data and Automation practice on a high-impact client engagement. You will help design, build, and operate a modern AWS-first data platform — moving data through S3 into Redshift Serverless, orchestrated by Airflow, modelled with dbt, and scripted in Python, with a likely evolution towards Snowflake. This is a client-facing role in a fully remote environment. You will own pipelines end to end, shape analytics engineering practices, and communicate clearly with distributed stakeholders.This is not a generic backend engineering role. Strong software engineers are only relevant where they bring credible, hands-on experience in a modern cloud data platform.
What you'll bring
- dbt
- Python
- 5+ years
- in data engineering, analytics engineering, or closely related roles
- Strong hands-on AWS data platform experience — S3-centred flows, cloud-native data workflows, warehouse-driven delivery
- Apache Airflow
- — proven experience designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting production pipelines
- — solid analytics engineering patterns, modular models, testing, and documentation
- Warehouse experience
- comparable warehouse backgrounds considered if adaptable
- — confident scripting for pipelines, transformations, and automation
- Strong understanding of data modelling (dimensional, wide tables, incremental strategies)