Data Engineer Technical Lead

1 week ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa PM Connection Full time

Leadership:

• Demonstrated ability to act as a tech lead, guiding the design, development, and implementation of data solutions while ensuring alignment with best practices and the company and its client's objectives.

• Skilled in mentoring and supporting team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Strong technical decision-making abilities, prioritisation of tasks, and managing resources to meet project deadlines.

Collaboration Across Teams:

• Proven ability to build strong partnerships with product, technology, and business stakeholders, actively listening to understand their needs and challenges and adjusting approach and thinking accordingly.

Personal Growth Mindset, Problem-Solving & Adaptability:

• Adopt an AI-led development mindset by integrating AI tools and automation into the software development lifecycle, leveraging AI for code generation, testing, debugging, and optimisation to enhance productivity.

• Deep interest in learning and adopting emerging technologies, particularly in the rapidly evolving AI and data landscape.

• Proactive approach to problem solving, solution design and the development process as well as associated challenges.

• Enjoy working in a fast paced and changing environment, with the ability to react and adapt quickly to changes.

Communication:

• Ability to convey technical insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders clearly and effectively.

Technical Skills
Data Architecture & Engineering:

• Data architecture experience, designing scalable, high-performance data platforms to support data analytics, AI/ML data pipelines and batch/real-time data processing.

• Expertise in defining data modelling strategies, data governance, and security best practices to ensure efficient data flow across systems.

Database Management and Optimisation:

• Proficiency in managing Snowflake, PostgreSQL or similar tools, including schema design, query optimisation, and performance tuning.

• Experience with vector databases for integrating vector embeddings.

Data Pipelines and Integration:

• Expertise in creating and managing ETL/ELT pipelines to handle large-scale data ingestion and transformation.

• Familiarity with DBT or similar tools.

Automation, AI/ML Models, Agents:

• Hands-on experience deploying, fine-tuning, and integrating AI models (e.g., transformers, embeddings) into data platforms.

• Knowledge of LangChain and or other frameworks.

• Experience implementing AI agents for data collection and process automation.

• Experience in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows.

Cloud and DevOps:

• Understanding of cloud services with a focus on data storage, compute, and AI/ML integrations.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines for managing deployments.

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