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Date Added: Sun 06/07/2025

SQL Data Engineer

Sandton, South Africa
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Job Type: Contract

Salary: 80000.0000 - 100000.0000 / monthly

We are looking for a capable and detail-oriented SQL Developer / Data Engineer to design, build, maintain, and support high-quality data pipelines that empower insight-driven decision-making and efficient campaign execution. You will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and quality of data pipelines, with a strong emphasis on compliance and metadata governance.


Key Responsibilities
  • Maintain and support existing data pipelines, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.

  • Identify opportunities to optimise and refactor data pipelines for improved efficiency and scalability.

  • Ensure data integrity, quality, and compliance with metadata governance and industry standards.

  • Develop and deploy new data pipelines and transformations according to business needs.

  • Follow agreed development lifecycle processes, including requirements gathering, testing, version control, and deployment.

  • Maintain and document code repositories (e.g., Git) and ensure code is modular, reusable, and well-documented.

  • Collaborate with campaign teams, data analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure data solutions meet business requirements.


Minimum Qualifications and Experience
  • 3+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering, with a strong focus on SQL-based development.

  • Proven experience in maintaining, troubleshooting, and enhancing data pipelines in a production environment.

  • Experience working within structured development methodologies (Agile/Scrum/Kanban preferred).


Preferred Exposure and Experience
  • Exposure to maintaining and improving internal data processing workflows and operations.

  • Familiarity with campaign management environments or customer data platforms is advantageous.

  • Experience working with large datasets and optimising SQL queries for performance.


Technical Skills and Competencies