Data Engineer Rneg

The Purpose

This role is for the a fast-growing client that is revolutionizing bill payments and value-added services in South Africa. Their technology is trusted by a wide network of channel partners across the country, enabling seamless, secure, and scalable financial services for end-users. You'll join the data team to build and maintain the pipelines that move transactions, merchant and reconciliation data from source systems into our warehouse — giving product, finance and risk teams data they can trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest transactional data into our warehouse • Write and optimise SQL to transform raw data into usable, well-modelled tables • Monitor pipeline health and fix data quality issues before they reach downstream users • Support data engineers and analysts with clean, documented datasets • Contribute to version-controlled, tested data pipeline code • Help maintain data pipeline documentation and lineage

Minimum Requirements

• 1-2 years' experience in a data engineering, analytics engineering, or backend data role • Strong SQL skills — comfortable writing and debugging complex queries • Working knowledge of Python for scripting and data transformation • Exposure to a modern data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar) • Understanding of version control (Git) and basic CI/CD concepts • Comfortable working with large, messy, real-world transactional data

Nice to have

• Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, or similar) • Exposure to streaming data (Kafka, Kinesis) • Interest or background in payments, fintech, or transaction processing. • Our client is offering a highly competitive salary for this role based on experience. To apply for this role today, contact Lem @ Hire Xpectations, email: admin@hirexpectations.co.za, Enq: 081 478 7032