Technical Lead Senior Data Engineer (Java & Scala)

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

ITE007664/Mon

Date posted:

Monday, May 11, 2026

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Annually

SUMMARY:

Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for delivering enterprise-scale data retention, migration and privacy enhancement initiatives at petabyte scale. Hands on software engineering with technical leadership, owning production grade solutions while mentoring engineers and driving complex data programs from concept through deployment.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:

Led largeâscale data migrations and identity transformations across multiâpetabyte datasets
Designed scalable batch and streaming data pipelines with robust validation and lineage tracking
Delivered platform upgrades (JDK, Apache Spark) while ensuring production stability
Implemented monitoring, testing, and observability for data pipeline performance and integrity
Owned critical systems, mentored engineers, and led technical design decisions
Removed delivery blockers and partnered crossâfunctionally to drive successful outcomes

Job Experience and skill required

Min 8 years experience in Data engineering
Degree or Master degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar
Proven expertise in large-scale data migration and ETL pipeline development
Advance proficiency in Scala and Java with Gradle or Maven
Experience with Apache Spark, AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks

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