Principal Data Engineer
sabenzait · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Principal
- 3+ years
Lead design, build, and optimize production data pipelines on Databricks, while providing technical leadership and mentoring within the Data & Analytics team.
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust, production-grade data pipelines on Databricks
- Optimize platform performance and cost tuning compute, jobs and queries
- Define and maintain consistent business metrics and a semantic layer
- Integrate data from core business systems such as SAP S/4HANA and other sources
- Set and uphold engineering standards across the team
Requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Nice to have: Experience with SAP S/4HANA data sets
- Nice to have: Experience with Fivetran SaaS connectors and HVR
- Nice to have: Power BI semantic modelling