518 Data Acquisition jobs in South Africa

Job title : Senior Analyst Market Surveillance And Data Analysis Department (Pretoria)

Job Location : Gauteng, Pretoria
Deadline : August 18, 2025

Purpose of the Job :

To analyze data systems, create automated systems to retrieve information from databases, and compile reports. The department will also use data to solve problems, turn data into information, and information into insights that will lead to informed business decisions. The role involves creating detailed specifications for data sources, data flows, data transformations, data storage, and reporting. The person appointed will report to the Senior Specialist : Data Analysis.

Key Performance Areas :

1. Create detailed specifications that specify data sources, data flows, data transformations, data storage, and reporting;
2. Produce documentation such as source-to-target maps, data dictionaries, and data models;
3. Create test cases and scenarios used to ensure quality assurance;
4. Interact and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to identify data sources, define data for master and metadata, and implement solutions;
5. Promote the use of existing enterprise data standards to enhance data quality, ensure compliance, and adhere to data governance principles;
6. Process live and confidential data according to specified guidelines;
7. Evaluate changes and updates to source production systems that could impact reporting and business decisions;
8. Interpret data, analyze results, and identify trends to enable continuous improvement in data quality and business performance;
9. Define, implement, and standardize metrics, reports, and dashboards for the business;
10. Deliver key metrics, reports, and dashboards with interpretation.

Other Key Competencies :

The applicant must demonstrate active listening, critical thinking, analytical thinking, attention to detail, strong financial and numeracy skills, proficiency in MS Office, excellent communication, good interpersonal skills, and emotional intelligence. The candidate should be able to establish priorities and manage multiple tasks.

Requirements :

A degree or B Tech in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) or a related discipline with at least 4 years of relevant experience, preferably in financial services. Proven experience in building logical and physical data models using industry best practices, patterns, and frameworks. Knowledge of database and data warehouse design. Familiarity with BI methodologies. Practical experience with database management tools and reporting tools.

Closing Date : 18 August 2025

Developer, SAP S4 BPT Group Reporting and Data Collection

Job Overview

Business Segment: Group Functions

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

To design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs in development environments. Apply agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result. Work within a strict framework of programming standards under the supervision of senior technical resources.

Qualifications

• Degree in BSc Computer Sciences or BCom in Finance or Accounting
• Good Knowledge of Accounting and Financial Consolidations
• Must have at least 1 to 2 years of design and development experience in SAP Business Technology Platform Workflow Management Service or other workflow capabilities such as Power Automate
• Ideally must have 1 to 2 years’ experience working on SAP Group Reporting and Group Reporting Data Collection
• 3-4 Years’ development experience on SAP Business Warehouse

Developer, SAP S4 BPT Group Reporting and Data Collection

Job Overview

Business Segment: Group Functions

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

To design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs in development environments. Apply agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result. Work within a strict framework of programming standards under the supervision of senior technical resources.

Qualifications

• Degree in BSc Computer Sciences or BCom in Finance or Accounting
• Good knowledge of Accounting and Financial Consolidations
• Must have at least 1 to 2 years of design and development experience in SAP Business Technology Platform Workflow Management Service or other workflow capabilities such as Power Automate
• Ideally must have 1 to 2 years’ experience working on SAP Group Reporting and Group Reporting Data Collection
• 3-4 years’ development experience on SAP Business Warehouse

Do you live and breathe all things data related?

We are looking for a data engineer to join our growing team. Are you passionate about the technical aspects of OUTs data landscape? See it as a challenge to build processes that are optimized to run as quickly as possible, delivering quality data sets that can be reused by multiple teams. As a data engineer within our team, you will be responsible for developing best practices and patterns, maintaining our current workloads, optimizing our data warehouse, and building data pipelines and data products. The data engineer will support multiple stakeholders, including software development, actuarial, payroll, and finance analytical teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in data engineering or related fields.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, C#, etc.) and SQL.
• Proven experience with data modeling, ETL processes, and data warehousing.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Understanding of data processing technologies and data management principles.
• Familiarity with data technologies such as Synapse, Databricks, Delta Lake, and AirFlow.

Additional Information:

An ideal candidate will align their personal work values with OUTsurance values of Awesome Service, Dynamic, Honest, Human, Passionate, and Recognition.

In accordance with OUTsurance Insurance Company Ltd's Employment Equity goals, preference will be given to individuals who meet the job requirements and are from the various designated groups.

Remote Work: Employment Type:

Full-time

Key Skills:

Apache Hive, S3, Hadoop, Redshift, Spark, AWS, Apache Pig, NoSQL, Big Data, Data Warehouse, Kafka, Scala

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Our client is looking for a Data Engineer in Centurion, Gauteng.

The Data Engineer helps stakeholders understand data through exploration and builds secure and compliant data processing pipelines using various tools and techniques. You will maintain data services and frameworks to store and produce cleansed and enhanced datasets for analysis, including designing data store architectures based on business needs.

The responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining data solutions, ensuring high performance, efficiency, organization, and reliability of data pipelines and stores according to business requirements and constraints.

You will identify and troubleshoot operational and data quality issues, as well as design, implement, monitor, and optimize data platforms to meet pipeline needs.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (internal and external) to ensure effective implementation, setup, utilization, and governance of the enterprise data platform across the organization.

This role supports data analytics, business intelligence, and advanced analytics functions.

The ideal candidate should have a strong business focus, understanding the company's strategy and how data underpins it.

This position reports to the Team Lead: Business Information.

• BCom in Information Technology, or a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (IT), or similar.
• Data Engineering tools (Azure Data Engineer) certification is an advantage.
• ITIL or COBIT certification.

• 2-4 years of experience in an IT environment.
• Experience with IT enterprise Azure-based data solutions.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience gathering requirements and translating them into designs and outcomes.
• Experience working in the agriculture sector is a plus.

• Strategic Direction
• Information Technology Operations
• IT Project Execution
• People Management
• Financial Management
• Governance and Compliance

• Microsoft Azure Data suite
• Data and Business intelligence enablement
• Business intelligence rendering tools
• Experience with Project Management Tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Report writing skills
• Knowledge of IT Security (advantageous)
• People change management skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to integrate technologies and architecture to meet requirements
• Planning and organizing skills
• Strong communication skills
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Change management capability
• Ability to work under pressure
• Assertiveness
• Interpersonal skills

Apache Hive, S3, Hadoop, Redshift, Spark, AWS, Apache Pig, NoSQL, Big Data, Data Warehouse, Kafka, Scala

Employment Type: Full Time

Vacancy: 1

Description

This roles responsibility is to design develop and maintain data-based solutions including ensuring that the operationalization of data pipelines and data stores are high-performing efficient organized and reliable given a set of business requirements and constraints.

The Data Engineer will build and maintain secure and compliant data processing pipelines by using different tools and techniques and maintain various data services and frameworks to store and produce cleansed and enhanced datasets for analysis. This includes data store design using different architecture patterns based on business requirements.

The incumbent will help identify and troubleshoot operational and data quality issues and design implement monitor and optimize data platforms to meet the data pipelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (internal and external) to ensure effective implementation set-up utilization and governance of the enterprise data platform across the organization.

This role contributes to the complete data function for data analytics business intelligence and advanced analytics. It requires a strong business focus and the individual understands the strategy and direction of the business but focuses on how to underpin that with data.

Requirements

REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION / TRAINING

• BCom or Bachelors degree in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering (IT) or similar
• Data Engineering tools (Azure Data Engineer) certification will be an added advantage
• ITIL or COBIT certification will be an added advantage

REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE / COMPETENCIES

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Closing date : 15 August 2025

Please note that correspondence will be limited to shortlisted candidates only. Applicants who have not heard from us within 30 days of the closing date may assume that their applications have been unsuccessful and are hereby thanked for their interest.

The filling of this position will be aligned with AFGRIs Employment Equity Policy.

Applicants are informed that in order to consider any application for employment we will have to process their personal information. A law known as the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) provides that when one processes anothers personal information such collection retention dissemination and use of that persons personal information must be done in a lawful and transparent manner.

In order to give effect to this right we are under a duty to provide you with a number of details pertaining to the processing of your personal information. These details are housed under the HR Processing Notice which can be accessed and viewed on the AFGRI Group website which HR Processing Notice we request you kindly download and read.

Work Level

Junior Management

Job Type

Permanent

Salary

Market Related

EE Position

Location

Centurion

Required Experience :

Junior IC

Key Skills

Apache Hive,S3,Hadoop,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Apache Pig,NoSQL,Big Data,Data Warehouse,Kafka,Scala

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Reference : BIT004534-Cha L-1

Our client is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our growing team. If you are passionate about the technical aspects of the data landscape and thrive on building optimized processes that deliver high-quality reusable datasets, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in developing best practices, maintaining current workloads, and optimizing our data warehouse, pipelines, and data products. You will support multiple stakeholders, including software development, actuarial, payroll, and finance analytical teams.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines to process large volumes of data from various sources.
• Develop and maintain data models, databases, and data warehouses to support analytical reporting needs.
• Implement data validation and monitoring processes to ensure data quality and accuracy.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver effective solutions.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex problems clearly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in data engineering or related fields.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, C#, etc.) and SQL.
• Proven experience with data modeling, ETL processes, and data warehousing.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong understanding of data processing technologies and data management principles.
• Familiarity with Synapse, Databricks, Delta Lake, and AirFlow is advantageous.

Apply Now!

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Key Skills

Apache Hive, S3, Hadoop, Redshift, Spark, AWS, Apache Pig, NoSQL, Big Data, Data Warehouse, Kafka, Scala

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : 3+ years

Vacancy : 1