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Principal Data Engineer (Databricks)

Full_time Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
Posted 2 weeks ago 25 views 0 applications

Job Description

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

  • Designing and building robust, production-grade data pipelines on Databricks, making appropriate use of current platform capabilities such as Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP)
  • Working “under the hood” to optimise the platform for performance and cost — tuning compute, jobs and queries, managing storage and table layout, and keeping platform spend under control
  • Defining and maintaining consistent business metrics and a semantic layer (for example, using Metric Views) so reporting is built on trusted, reusable definitions
  • Integrating data from core business systems, including SAP S/4HANA, and other sources, using tools such as Fivetran (both SaaS connectors and HVR)
  • Setting and upholding engineering standards across the team — code quality, testing, documentation, CI/CD and data governance
  • Coaching and mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, reviewing their work and helping them develop
  • Partnering with business stakeholders to understand their needs, shape practical solutions and ensure the platform delivers genuine value
  • Engaging data owners in Finance and IT to ensure data is well understood, valid and fit for purpose, and initiating data quality improvements where required
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