Senior Data Engineer (Remote)

Senior Data Engineer – Remote job vacancy in South Africa. A well establish international software development company is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join their team in either Somerset West, Pretoria or Johannesburg. This is a fully remote position, with the option to work from the office once a week if you prefer a hybrid working arrangement. You also have the option of choosing between permanent or contract employment, with a requirement to work 8 normal working hours per day. Overview: A growing data platform team is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to align reliable marketing, payments and product data with business goals. You will build and operate the pipelines that feed daily reporting, attribution and LTV, working closely with Analytics, Marketing and Data Science. If you enjoy solving complex problems and caring about the business behind the tables, this role is for you. Requirements: Experience with Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks (Unity Catalog and Delta), Apache Airflow and GCP (GCS and BigQuery). Comfort owning production data pipelines end to end. Curiosity about marketing spend, subscriptions and attribution, not only the pipelines that move the data. Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities with a strategic approach. Strong collaboration and communication skills across all levels. A solid understanding of agile methodologies. Advanced spoken and written English. Nice-to-have: dbt. Ads and payments APIs such as Google Ads, Stripe or RevenueCat. Key Responsibilities: Ingest data from ad platforms, payment systems and product backends into Databricks. Orchestrate jobs in Airflow and keep silver and gold tables accurate and on time. Own production: scheduled jobs, data quality checks, alerting and getting a failed daily run back on track. Proactively identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues to improve internal and external processes. Balance multiple projects without sacrificing quality, in line with brand standards and regulatory requirements. Work with product, engineering and marketing stakeholders to gather requirements, evaluate optionsand build tools and processes. #J-18808-Ljbffr