Technology

Data Engineer

AJ Personnel·South Africa, south-africa·Default
Technologyentry-levelDefault
-Closes Nov 5, 2026

Background:Excellent career opportunity for a Data Engineer to join a leading retail groupMinimum Requirements:

3 Year IT related Degree

Post graduate qualification (advantageous)

5-10 Years’ experience and understanding in designing and developing data warehouses according to the Kimball methodology

Adept at design and development of ETL processes

SQL development experience, preferably SAS data studio and AWS experience

Ability to ingest/output CSV, JSON and other flat file types and any related data sources

Proficient in Python or R

Experience within Retail, Financial Services and Logistics environments

Ensure highest data quality assurance, data accuracy, and data completeness through regular and in-depth review and testing of work

Create easily understandable technical documentation that are kept up to date

Conduct data design, database architecture, metadata and repository creation activities and tasks as required by business Stakeholder

Translate business needs into long-term architecture solutions

Define, design, and build dimensional databases

Design the ETL pipelines

Develop data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms, and integrating systems

Evaluate reusability of current data for additional analysis

Translate Meta data into explanatory reports and visuals for easy understanding to end user

Perform data pre-processing which includes data manipulation, transformation, normalisation, standardisation, visualisation, and derivation of new variables/features, as applicable to developing specific algorithms or models

Build data quality metrics and conduct data validation testing

Follow the IT governance process when implementing a change to ensure governance standards and protocols are followed

Provide feedback to business owners on identified problems to ensure quality of data is rectified

Conduct training and upskilling on new reports and or self-service analytics platforms to relevant Stakeholders

Communicate with Stakeholders to keep them abreast of current developments within the function and to manage expectations

Deal effectively and timeously with Customer complaints and ensure that complaints are resolved or escalated in line with agreed standards

Deliver services and products to the customer within the parameters of the agreed SLA

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Desired Skills:

Data Engineer

Data Quality

Data Testing

IT Skills

Degree

Information Technology

Johannesburg

At a glance

Company

AJ Personnel

Location

South Africa, south-africa

Employment

Default

Experience

entry-level

Valid until

November 5, 2026

Created

October 18, 2026