Senior Data Engineer

Recruiter:

Mindworx Consulting

Job Ref:

JNB007970/LD

Date posted:

Monday, October 6, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY:
What will you do?

You will be working primarily within the Google Cloud Environment using a variety of the tools that Google offers, from BigQuery and Dataproc to Kubernetes and AI Hub. You should idea dream in Python and speak SQL. You should not be afraid to dive into dirty data and help the team make sense of it. We are in the game of taking data and turning it into amazing stories and pretty pictures that help the decision makers drive the business forward.

POSITION INFO:
What should you have?

Relevant software engineering degree at least at Honours level (Master's preferred)
5+ years of development experience working with Python
Data skills (Traditional SQL and No-SQL)
Large-scale ETL
High-scale RESTful Services
Experience with source control (Git)

Beneficial Skills

You will be exposed to these in our environment, so it would be great if you had prior experience, but it’s not a problem if you don’t
Scheduling and Orchestration (Airflow/Composer) Containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker)
Data Warehousing concepts
Data governance Concepts

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