Data Engineer

SUMMARY:
Are you a seasoned Senior Data Engineer with +8 years' experience? Here's an opportunity to join one of SA's largest insurance groups.

POSITION INFO:
My client is part of South Africa's top insurance group, and their business unit offers wealth-building investment and retirement solutions. As a Data Engineer, you'll manage and maintain cloud or on-premise data platforms, implementing best practices, and ensuring data security and accessibility.

It Involves:

• Designing and presenting analytic solutions that meet business requirements
• Database optimisation (writing queries, defining schemas and performance improvement)

• Automate data infrastructure deployment and configuration of the following CI/CD principles, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Support and maintain production and non-production of database systems and platforms.
• Guide and support junior team members through mentorship and training.
• Apply governance standards, including data security, ML, SDLC, change, incident, and release management.
• Assist with model development, pre-processing, feature engineering, tuning, and MLOps.

• + 8 years of technical working experience in major data platforms such as SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, RDS, and their tooling.
• +4 years hands-on working experience with AWS cloud, AWS data and analytics services, such as S3, Athena, Glue, RDS, Redshift, Lake formation, Sagemaker, Lambda, etc.
  
• Some experience in AI platforms like AWS AI, Azure AI, Google AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta is an advantage.

• Matric + a Bachelor's Degree in IT/Computer Science/Engineering

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