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Specialist: Data Engineering
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We are seeking a skilled and motivated
Specialist: Data Engineering
to join our dynamic Financial Services team.
The ideal candidate will play a key role in implementing the company's Data Strategy by driving data awareness, engagement, and monetization while ensuring operational excellence across platforms.
This role involves building and optimizing data pipelines, managing data architectures on both on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring data quality and compliance, and supporting Payments & Ecommerce teams with reliable data solutions.
The position is ideal for a technically strong data engineer with a solid understanding of data frameworks, who is eager to grow in a fast-paced and innovation-driven environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy Development & Implementation
- Implement the Data Strategy to drive customer awareness, engagement, experience, and monetization.
- Provide input into data monetization aspects of the Business Plan and cascade to OpCos.
- Drive product revenue growth, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction.
Operational Delivery – Data Platforms
- Support in developing frameworks and technical architectures for Financial Services innovation.
- Assist the Payments & Ecommerce team in achieving annual goals.
- Implement and manage data architectures across multiple platforms (web, mobile, social).
- Ensure continuous alignment of data platforms with Financial Services strategy and evolving business requirements.
- Oversee delivery of data platform services and ensure integration efficiency and quality.
Data Engineering
- Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines from multiple data sources.
- Set up and manage centralized data storage systems and warehouses (e.g., Fabric, PrestoDB, Oracle).
- Utilize cloud technologies such as
Microsoft Azure
for scalable deployments. - Implement workflow management tools (Apache Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster).
- Ensure data accuracy, automation, and observability in data flows.
- Optimize pipelines and analytics for performance, scalability, and reliability.
Governance & Reporting
- Participate in strategic and operational meetings, providing technical guidance.
- Support enterprise-wide transformation initiatives related to data management.
- Ensure adequate risk mitigation and compliance with regional data regulations.
- Prepare regular progress and performance reports for management.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in
Computer Science, Big Data, Database Administration
, or a related field. - Minimum
3 years' experience
in
Advanced Data Engineering
. - Proven experience in
Big Data On-premises and Cloud Data Pipeline (M. Fabric)
deployment. - Proficiency in
SQL, Python, R, and Power BI
. - Experience with
Oracle, Teradata, or Snowflake
, and cloud platforms such as
AWS, Azure, or GCP
. - Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience in
Telecommunications or Financial Services
is an advantage. - Willingness and flexibility to travel within Africa.
Skills and Competencies
- Data pipeline and API development expertise.
- Knowledge of Machine Learning Operations pipeline deployment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Agile and digital-first mindset.
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Excellent relationship-building and presentation skills.
Behavioural Qualities
Analytical and Detail-Oriented | Business-Focused | Self-Driven | Results-Oriented | Collaborative | Emotionally Intelligent
Manager, Data Engineering
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Business Segment: Insurance & Asset Management
Location: ZA, GP, Roodepoort, 4 Ellis Street
Job Type: Full-time
Job Ref ID: A-0001
Date Posted: 10/6/2025
Job Description
To develop and maintain complete data architecture across several application platforms, provide capability across application platforms. To design, build, operationalise, secure and monitor data pipelines and data stores to applicable architecture, solution designs, standards, policies and governance requirements thus making data accessible for the evaluation and optimisation for downstream use case consumption. To execute data engineering duties according to standards, frameworks, and roadmaps
Qualifications
Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Business Commerce
Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Information Studies
Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology
Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
5-7 years
Experience in building databases, warehouses, reporting and data integration solutions. Experience building and optimising big data data-pipelines, architectures and data sets. Experience in creating and integrating APIs. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
8-10 years
Deep understanding of data pipelining and performance optimisation, data principles, how data fits in an organisation, including customers, products and transactional information. Knowledge of integration patterns, styles, protocols and systems theory
8-10 years
Experience in database programming languages including SQL, PL/SQL, SPARK and or appropriate data tooling. Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools
Additional Information
Behavioural Competencies:
Adopting Practical Approaches
Articulating Information
Checking Things
Developing Expertise
Documenting Facts
Embracing Change
Examining Information
Interpreting Data
Managing Tasks
Producing Output
Taking Action
Team Working
Technical Competencies:
Big Data Frameworks and Tools
Data Engineering
Data Integrity
Data Quality
IT Knowledge
Stakeholder Management (IT)
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Data Engineering Technical Lead
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Position Overview:
The Technical Lead is responsible for the development and delivery of Cloud technical data solutions that support enterprise data management and data usage requirements. The Lead ensures that all technical data services and solutions are designed and implemented according to best practices and support firm regulatory, business enablement requirements. The Cloud data solutions should enable robust use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The Technical Lead coordinates delivery of technical solutions across Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure services and engages with stakeholders to ensure that deliverables meet the business strategy and requirements within the agreed timelines.
Our Africa Tech and Digital team is a dynamic community of self-starters and innovators who embrace change and the constant evolution of technology. We are committed to fostering an environment where curiosity thrives and creativity is celebrated. By leveraging AI-assisted tools and respecting diverse perspectives, we drive collaborative success while enhancing our collective knowledge and skills. We believe in the power of technology to transform and improve our processes, always seeking to challenge the status quo. Together, we work with urgency and empathy, united in our mission to create impactful solutions that benefit our firm and our clients.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Data Strategy:
Implement technology that aligns with the business strategy and fulfills business and network requirements for data services.
- Engagement and collaboration with internal and LoS technical teams to ensure alignment, awareness and adoption of technical data solutions and services in support of business requirements.
Forecast technology trends be able to proactively Identify technology pivots and roadmap. Evaluate new approaches, technologies, and services to ensure that Data solutions and services meet changing business demand and enable innovative solutions that can be implemented with agility, urgency and agency.
Data Modelling:
Implement data solutions that are in line with data modelling best practices.
- Provide technical data services that meet the ongoing requirements of the business in a cost effective and efficient manner.
- Implement data solutions and services promote ethical and responsible use of data within the firm.
Engage with local and global SMEs and teams to ensure that the technical data solutions and services adhere to standards, assist the firm in meeting regulatory requirements and align to the network roadmap.
Technical Standards:
Develop technical standards for each pillar of the Software Development Lfe0cycle (SDLC) in collaboration with other SMEs across AfricaTech.
Collaborate with, and assist, internal and LoS teams with understanding and implementing technical standards requirements of the firm and advise on best practices.
Solutions Design
Collaborate in product design sessions to provide input on technical data requirements and approaches that support the data requirements of the desired business product outcomes.
- Assist with defining technical delivery plans that will meet the requirements for data-driven solutions.
Evaluate the delivery of data solutions to ensure that they support strategic deliver, meet business requirements and adhere to technical standards.
Operational Management
Act as a mentor to technical staff within the team.
- Assist with the development of technical training curriculums.
- Provide technical support and input into data communities of interest and practice.
Assist with internal and LoS data training programmes.
Continuous Improvement:
Identify opportunities to enhance data quality processes, tools, and techniques, leveraging innovative approaches to improve overall data governance and quality strategies.
- Contribute to ongoing assessments of the effectiveness of data quality practices, proposing adjustments based on industry trends and organizational needs.
- Drive the optimisation and automation of redundant and obsolete processes
- Master and champion, the use of AI tools in the delivery of Data Governance and Quality processes.
Qualifications and Skills:
Education:
- Any Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent relevant work experience.
- Certifications in Microsoft Databricks.
- Experience: Minimum of years of experience in cloud data engineering or related roles within a complex organizational environment.
Technical Skills:
- Experience in designing and managing data warehouses.
- Experience in ensuring data security and compliance with regulations, including encryption and privacy laws.
- Data quality analysis skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to interpret complex data and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Proficiency in data mining, predictive modelling, and working with large datasets to uncover insights.
- Designing and implementing enterprise data management frameworks.
- Knowledge of data governance and data quality principles.
- Large-scale technical data project implementation experience.
- Ability to formulate and drive a technical data strategy and budget.
- Ability to mentor and develop technical data teams.
- Ability to facilitate broader staff training.
- Ability to explain technical concepts at all levels.
- Stakeholder engagement and strong communication skills at all levels.
- Data modelling and identification and linking of Gloden Sources
- Metadata Management
- Technical skills including:
- Azure cloud data services architecture (Synapse, Purview).
- Understanding of API development (REST, SOAP, APIM).
- DevOps experience (task management, code deployment, pipeline management).
- Terraform experience.
- SQL experience.
- Python experience.
- Power BI experience.
- Alteryx experience.
- Databricks experience (ideal).
- MS Fabric experience (ideal).
- Data modeling experience.
- Phython
- Use of AI and ML within Databricks and Synapse
Soft Skills:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Analytical and detail-oriented mindset, with a proactive approach to problem solving and decision making.
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. As we navigate an increasingly complex world, we are dedicated to ensuring that the systems on which communities and economies depend can adapt and thrive. Each role within our organization contributes to this mission, reinforcing our commitment to high ethical standards and the importance of trust.
Our five core values guide our actions and define who we are. They emphasize building trust through professionalism, ethical behavior, and a commitment to quality in all our interactions, whether with clients, colleagues, or the broader community. We respect privacy and confidentiality, and we strive for transparency in our operations, demonstrating care and integrity in our relationships.
As part of our human-led, tech-powered approach, we empower our people through technology and foster an environment were speaking up is encouraged, and diverse perspectives are celebrated. By embodying these principles in our daily work, we can collectively drive impactful outcomes that resonate with our clients and society as a whole. Together, let's embrace our purpose and values to create meaningful change.
The Data Engineering Technical Lead plays a critical role in establishing data governance frameworks that will build trust in our data, open revenues for data monetization and upholding the quality and integrity of the organization's data assets. Your expertise in data governance and management practices and commitment to fostering a culture of accountability will significantly enhance the effectiveness of data governance initiatives within PwC Africa. You need to be passionate about data governance and PwC's purpose needs to resonate with you.
Data Engineering Practice Lead
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Make an impact with NTT DATA
Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it's a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.
The Director, Data Engineering is a leadership role accountable for operationally managing a Data Engineering Team.
The Data Engineering Practice lead will lead the design, development of the enterprise data platform and pipelines.
This role is further responsible for overseeing SAP data migrations, ensuring seamless integration and transformation of legacy systems into modern cloud-based architectures.
The person will drive innovation, scalability, and governance in data engineering practices while managing a high-performing team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manages a team of Managers and Data Engineers to ensure achievement of team objectives/KPIs and through continuous coaching and mentoring helps the team to understand and apply data to solve business solutions.
- Develop the new Data Platform - Execute the data engineering strategy per the selected platform.
- SAP Data Migration - Lead end-to-end SAP data migration projects, including planning, mapping, transformation, and validation.
- Engineering Team Leadership - Build and manage a team of data engineers and technical leads. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Data Pipeline Development - Oversee development of robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake Streams/Tasks, and SAP tools. Ensure pipelines are optimized for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
- Data Management - partner with data management practice lead and governance lead to ensure adherence to data quality, lineage, and security standards. Implement monitoring and alerting for data pipeline health and SLA compliance.
- Stakeholder Engagement - Collaborate with business units and the internal analytics teams and IT to align data engineering efforts with strategic goals. Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Ensure industry standards best practices are applied to development activities and continuously ensures the team remains abreast of latest technology and tools in the area of data engineering.
- Works across multiple areas on data set to ensure solutions are successfully executed, within agreed upon time frames.
Knowledge and Attributes:
- Excellent ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
- Strong desire to acquire more knowledge to keep up to speed with the ever-evolving field of data science.
- Strong curiosity to sift through data to find answers and more insights.
- Excellent understanding of the information technology industry within a matrixed organization and the typical business problems such organizations face.
- Excellent ability to translate technical findings clearly and fluently to non-technical team business stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
- Excellent ability to create a storyline around the data to make it easy to interpret and understand.
- Self-driven and able to work independently yet acts as a team player.
- Excellent ability to apply data science principles through a business lens.
- Strong desire to create strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of peers and senior leadership teams.
- Excellent ability to think strategically about how to use data to drive competitive advantages.
- Excellent management and leadership skills.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
- Relevant programming certification preferred.
- Agile certification preferred.
Required experience:
- Significant demonstrable experience with one or more programming languages, statistical packages and database languages.
- Significant demonstrable experience with data warehouse and data lake technical architectures, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT, and reporting/analytic tools.
- Significant demonstrable experience applying statistical methods to solve business problems.
- Significant demonstrated experience with distributed data platform tools such as MS Azure, SAP Snowflake, Spark, MySQL, etc.
- Significant demonstrated experience in working in micro-services architecture working with APIs development.
- Significant demonstrable experience of full-stack software development with prolific coding abilities.
- Significant demonstrated experience with Agile Development Methodologies and Test-Driven Development.
- Solid line manager experience leading and managing a team of Data Engineering Teams
Workplace type:
Hybrid Working
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.
Equal Opportunity Employer
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.
Data Engineering Practice Lead
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Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it's a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.
The Director, Data Engineering is a leadership role accountable for operationally managing a Data Engineering Team.
The Data Engineering Practice lead will lead the design, development of the enterprise data platform and pipelines.
This role is further responsible for overseeing SAP data migrations, ensuring seamless integration and transformation of legacy systems into modern cloud-based architectures.
The person will drive innovation, scalability, and governance in data engineering practices while managing a high-performing team.
**Key Responsibilities:**
+ Manages a team of Managers and Data Engineers to ensure achievement of team objectives/KPIs and through continuous coaching and mentoring helps the team to understand and apply data to solve business solutions.
+ Develop the new Data Platform - Execute the data engineering strategy per the selected platform.
+ SAP Data Migration - Lead end-to-end SAP data migration projects, including planning, mapping, transformation, and validation.
+ Engineering Team Leadership - Build and manage a team of data engineers and technical leads. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
+ Data Pipeline Development - Oversee development of robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake Streams/Tasks, and SAP tools. Ensure pipelines are optimized for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
+ Data Management - partner with data management practice lead and governance lead to ensure adherence to data quality, lineage, and security standards. Implement monitoring and alerting for data pipeline health and SLA compliance.
+ Stakeholder Engagement - Collaborate with business units and the internal analytics teams and IT to align data engineering efforts with strategic goals. Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
+ Ensure industry standards best practices are applied to development activities and continuously ensures the team remains abreast of latest technology and tools in the area of data engineering.
+ Works across multiple areas on data set to ensure solutions are successfully executed, within agreed upon time frames.
**Knowledge and Attributes:**
+ Excellent ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
+ Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
+ Strong desire to acquire more knowledge to keep up to speed with the ever-evolving field of data science.
+ Strong curiosity to sift through data to find answers and more insights.
+ Excellent understanding of the information technology industry within a matrixed organization and the typical business problems such organizations face.
+ Excellent ability to translate technical findings clearly and fluently to non-technical team business stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
+ Excellent ability to create a storyline around the data to make it easy to interpret and understand.
+ Self-driven and able to work independently yet acts as a team player.
+ Excellent ability to apply data science principles through a business lens.
+ Strong desire to create strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of peers and senior leadership teams.
+ Excellent ability to think strategically about how to use data to drive competitive advantages.
+ Excellent management and leadership skills.
**Academic Qualifications and Certifications:**
+ Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
+ Relevant programming certification preferred.
+ Agile certification preferred.
**Required experience:**
+ Significant demonstrable experience with one or more programming languages, statistical packages and database languages.
+ Significant demonstrable experience with data warehouse and data lake technical architectures, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT, and reporting/analytic tools.
+ Significant demonstrable experience applying statistical methods to solve business problems.
+ Significant demonstrated experience with distributed data platform tools such as MS Azure, SAP Snowflake, Spark, MySQL, etc.
+ Significant demonstrated experience in working in micro-services architecture working with APIs development.
+ Significant demonstrable experience of full-stack software development with prolific coding abilities.
+ Significant demonstrated experience with Agile Development Methodologies and Test-Driven Development.
+ Solid line manager experience leading and managing a team of Data Engineering Teams
**Workplace type** **:**
Hybrid Working
**About NTT DATA**
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.
**Equal Opportunity Employer**
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.
Data Engineering Practice Lead
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Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it's a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.
The Director, Data Engineering is a leadership role accountable for operationally managing a Data Engineering Team.
The Data Engineering Practice lead will lead the design, development of the enterprise data platform and pipelines.
This role is further responsible for overseeing SAP data migrations, ensuring seamless integration and transformation of legacy systems into modern cloud-based architectures.
The person will drive innovation, scalability, and governance in data engineering practices while managing a high-performing team.
**Key Responsibilities:**
+ Manages a team of Managers and Data Engineers to ensure achievement of team objectives/KPIs and through continuous coaching and mentoring helps the team to understand and apply data to solve business solutions.
+ Develop the new Data Platform - Execute the data engineering strategy per the selected platform.
+ SAP Data Migration - Lead end-to-end SAP data migration projects, including planning, mapping, transformation, and validation.
+ Engineering Team Leadership - Build and manage a team of data engineers and technical leads. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
+ Data Pipeline Development - Oversee development of robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake Streams/Tasks, and SAP tools. Ensure pipelines are optimized for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
+ Data Management - partner with data management practice lead and governance lead to ensure adherence to data quality, lineage, and security standards. Implement monitoring and alerting for data pipeline health and SLA compliance.
+ Stakeholder Engagement - Collaborate with business units and the internal analytics teams and IT to align data engineering efforts with strategic goals. Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
+ Ensure industry standards best practices are applied to development activities and continuously ensures the team remains abreast of latest technology and tools in the area of data engineering.
+ Works across multiple areas on data set to ensure solutions are successfully executed, within agreed upon time frames.
**Knowledge and Attributes:**
+ Excellent ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
+ Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
+ Strong desire to acquire more knowledge to keep up to speed with the ever-evolving field of data science.
+ Strong curiosity to sift through data to find answers and more insights.
+ Excellent understanding of the information technology industry within a matrixed organization and the typical business problems such organizations face.
+ Excellent ability to translate technical findings clearly and fluently to non-technical team business stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
+ Excellent ability to create a storyline around the data to make it easy to interpret and understand.
+ Self-driven and able to work independently yet acts as a team player.
+ Excellent ability to apply data science principles through a business lens.
+ Strong desire to create strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of peers and senior leadership teams.
+ Excellent ability to think strategically about how to use data to drive competitive advantages.
+ Excellent management and leadership skills.
**Academic Qualifications and Certifications:**
+ Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
+ Relevant programming certification preferred.
+ Agile certification preferred.
**Required experience:**
+ Significant demonstrable experience with one or more programming languages, statistical packages and database languages.
+ Significant demonstrable experience with data warehouse and data lake technical architectures, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT, and reporting/analytic tools.
+ Significant demonstrable experience applying statistical methods to solve business problems.
+ Significant demonstrated experience with distributed data platform tools such as MS Azure, SAP Snowflake, Spark, MySQL, etc.
+ Significant demonstrated experience in working in micro-services architecture working with APIs development.
+ Significant demonstrable experience of full-stack software development with prolific coding abilities.
+ Significant demonstrated experience with Agile Development Methodologies and Test-Driven Development.
+ Solid line manager experience leading and managing a team of Data Engineering Teams
**Workplace type** **:**
Hybrid Working
**About NTT DATA**
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.
**Equal Opportunity Employer**
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.
Data Science
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Not for First Time Job Seeker
Important:
This role requires all 12 listed skills.
Please ensure your CV clearly reflects each of these with traceable experience and references. Candidates missing any of the required skills will not be considered.
JOB ROLE - DATA SCIENCE/ AI/ML Engineers:-
Educational qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in data science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
- Master's or PhD in Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, or AI (strongly preferred).
SKILLS:
Machine learning engineering
Azure databricks
Business acumen
Python
SQL
Version control and collaboration tools (git, azure repo)
Strong communication with non-technical stakeholders
Cloud platform knowledge (azure)
Model deployment (CI/CD pipelines, model monitoring)
Understanding of rag pipelines and autonomous agents
Feature and ml data engineering (advanced big data wrangling)
Understanding of project management and agile methodologies
Relevant experience
- 8–12 years of experience in data science, machine learning, or advanced analytics roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial capacity.
- Proven delivery of AI/ML models in production environments—preferably in Fintech, Banking, or Telecoms.
- Experience translating complex data science solutions into measurable business outcomes (e.g., credit scoring, fraud detection, churn prediction).
- Exposure to cloud-based ML platforms (e.g., AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, GCP Vertex AI)."
Required certifications
Preferred: TensorFlow, AWS ML Speciality, Microsoft AI Fundamentals
Key responsibilities
- Lead and scale a high-performing team of data scientists and ML engineers.
- Define and execute the data science roadmap, aligned to business priorities and monetisation opportunities.
- Oversee the end-to-end model lifecycle—from ideation, exploration, development, validation, to monitoring.
- Partner with Product, Risk, and Engineering to integrate models into digital and operational channels.
- Establish standards for model governance, explainability, and ethical AI practices.
- Drive innovation by exploring emerging techniques in generative AI, reinforcement learning, and real-time scoring.
Work location
Hybrid
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Data Engineering and Architecture Lead
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At
X, bigly labs
, we're Dis-Chem's high-performance innovation hub, where bold ideas meet data, design, and radical customer focus. Our mission is simple:
power the future of healthcare
by lowering costs, improving outcomes, and unlocking new possibilities. We're driven by one big question:
How do we use data + technology today to create healthier lives tomorrow?
Here, we don't just imagine the future,
we build it
. From cutting-edge digital solutions to smarter, patient-focused experiences, we're reimagining health tech to make breakthroughs possible.
Welcome to
X, bigly labs.
This is healthcare, reimagined.
From retail and pharmacy to clinics, insurance and beyond, we're applying machine learning and smart systems to reimagine healthcare pathways and create personalised experiences at scale. Here, your work doesn't sit in a notebook or on a whiteboard. It becomes real. It shapes decisions. It improves lives. And we do it all the Bigly way, questioning, challenging, and building audaciously, together.
We are seeking a visionary
Data Engineering and Architecture Lead
to lead the design, development, and optimisation of our enterprise data ecosystem. This role is responsible for building scalable, secure, and high-performance data platforms that power analytics, AI, and operational excellence across Dischem and its affiliated businesses. You will be the architect of our data assets by ensuring that our data infrastructure is not only robust and compliant, but also agile enough to support innovation in healthcare, retail, insurance, and beyond.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR?
Minimum
- Bachelor's degree (or the equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering or architecture, with 3+ years in a leadership role
- Deep expertise in SQL, Python or/and Spark, Cloud platforms (Azure or AWS) and cloud-native tools (e.g. DataBricks)
- Proven experience designing, implementing scaling enterprise data platforms using the Medallion Architecture
- Strong understanding of data governance, security, and compliance frameworks
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
Advantageous
- Experience in healthcare, retail, or insurance data ecosystems
- Familiarity with data mesh, lakehouse architecture and real-time data processing
- Certifications in cloud architecture or data engineering
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING?
- Enterprise Data Architecture
- Data Engineering Leadership
- Platform Enablement & Innovation
- Stakeholder Engagement & Governance
- Enterprise Data Architecture
- Data Engineering Leadership
- Platform Enablement & Innovation
- Financial & Vendor Management
WHO YOU ARE?
- Structured thinking and systems problem-solving
- Commercial fluency and ability to articulate value levers
- Strategic clarity balanced with practical execution
- Able to co-create solutions with technical teams
- Influences without authority and facilitates decision forums
- Drives initiatives independently with high standards of quality
Our values aren't just ideals, they're the through-lines in how we think, build, and make decisions that impact real lives. From bold experimentation in digital solutions to platforms built on integrity, we're shaping a culture designed for
progress that lasts
. It's a culture that
designs for the future
, asks better questions, and answers them with care, urgency, and systems that scale.
Think you've got the energy, the curiosity, and the guts? Stay close
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igly things are ahead.
Data Engineering and Architecture Lead
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We’re building the next-generation data backbone for a dynamic organisation.
We create scalable, secure, cloud-first platforms that power analytics, AI, and business intelligence across the enterprise.
Currently searching for a Data Engineering and Architecture Lead with deep AWS Cloud expertise and a passion for solving complex data challenges.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related field
- 10+ years’ experience in data engineering or architecture
- 5+ years leadership experience
- 5+ years architectural experience
- Proven experience with AWS services (S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, EMR, Athena)
- Expertise in SQL, Python, and ETL/ELT development
- Knowledge of data modelling (Kimball, Data Vault) and data governance
- Leadership experience managing technical teams
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and integration strategies
- Build and manage scalable, high-performance data pipelines
- Ensure data availability and quality to support analytics, BI, and AI initiatives
- Collaborate with business and technology teams to translate requirements into solutions
- Define best practices, enforce standards, and mentor a team of data engineers
Reference number for this position is GZ60852 which is a permanent position based in Melrose Arch offering a cost to company salary of R1.8m per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.
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Hello Data Science Manager. Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and the game changers. As part of our talent team at FNB Personal Core Banking, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now's the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.
The Personal and Private Core Banking Pricing team is a centre of excellence for FNB. They perform the formulation and execution of pricing strategies across the various business units including Personal Core Banking, Private Core Banking, Credit Card, Home Loans, FNB Channel Islands and Broader Africa. This crucial function engages many senior stakeholders including our CEOs, CFOs and Product Heads to collaboratively drive revenue and income statement growth. The team consists of passionate driven individuals who are invested in the team's success and work together to drive towards outcomes that exceeds expectations.
We're looking for a seasoned Data Science Manager to revolutionize our data utilization. You'll be responsible for building, optimizing, and implementing innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, products, and advanced mathematical models for our Business Pricing Model. You'll provide analytical support and interpret insights to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy with minimal guidance. You'll manage an analytics team, streamline processes, and ensure compliance with privacy requirements. Your role includes integrating analytics into operations, developing core capabilities, and driving performance. Join us to lead data-driven strategies and enhance our business outcomes.
Are You Someone Who Can
- Manage Quantitative Analytics and Modelling team (5 + team members)
- Ensure adoption and localization of appropriate model building policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process and integration of business modelling and analytics value chain.
- Establish goals and strategies for area of accountability in collaboration with senior data analytics management.
- Ensure ethical usage of information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification.
- Understand and ensure implementation and adherence to Privacy business requirements, legislation and policy.
- Ensure reporting of any Information Privacy Incidents and drive resolution of Privacy and Protection Audit.
- Findings, Complaints, Incidents, Investigations and Privacy and Protection Assessments.
- Provide and use data and analytic insights to improve customer experience through a better understanding of the customers context to identify monetization opportunities.
- Manage analytics team in the creation of high-quality analyses for all functions of the business, across area of accountability.
- Create tactical plans for achievement of outputs / deliverables in collaboration with business stakeholders to understand information requirements for strategy delivery and define metrics that track performance.
- Drive team performance of analytics solutions; drive and enhance data systems and streamline business processes to impact overall business results while keeping costs in check.
- Analyse available data to identify information commercialization opportunities that have not been explored to address business needs and revenue options.
- Ensure analytics productionization in the approved FirstRand architecture by translating technical data information into practical business information that addresses identified needs.
- Analyse information requirements, availability and quality of data to feed into Data and information management function and forums for resolution.
- Oversee the appropriate manipulation and analysis of data for to meet needs of the business for the purpose of future work and to ensure high information-quality and reliability across the business.
- Integrate analytics into operational processes to improve efficiency and client experience.
- Ensure development of core analytical capabilities or model libraries using advanced statistical, quantitative or econometric techniques.
- Manage overall project dependencies management and long-term prioritization of the business's overall analytical needs and opportunities.
- Serve as SME for analytics applying own understanding of the operations of the business product or service.
- Define the business questions for Business unit that need be answered; define appropriate analytics models in addition to identifying and readying relevant data sources for analysis.
- Address business problems and opportunities through robust underlying analytics.
- Translate business requirements into tangible solutions or models utilizing own understanding of business value and interrelated nature of projects, models and processes.
- Ensure accurate development and application of analytical algorithms and methods to build, test and implement advanced mathematical models and analytical solutions that address business problem, opportunities and improve business outcomes i.e. reduced risk and costs, increased profitability, optimized efficiency and to facilitate strategic decision making.
- Provide requirements to Business Information.
- Management Function as Supplier or Owner of Data to ensure data is prepared for consumption as an organizational asset.
- Create team tactical plans for achievement of outputs or deliverables in collaboration with Technology stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of analytical solutions and models to support business requirements.
- Ensure governance and compliance rules are followed in application and implementation of predictive models to enable the business to manage risk.
- Maintain ownership and oversee the implementation of models.
- Monitor output and accuracy of models.
- Ensure the documentation and auditing of relevant models, projects and processes.
- Provide input into business strategies through data analysis that proactively improve efficiency, identify risks, save costs and drive innovation.
- Lead business through efforts that drive business performance and potential by using the existent and new data sources and techniques.
- Enable business unit to understand its own health, finds growth levers, and identify opportunities for optimization.
- Create new data-driven approaches for the purpose of generating business insights through data analytics, information visualization and addressing unanswered business issues in a proactive manner.
- Ensure validation and interpretation of analytical results and creation of reports and presentations for data analytics management, departmental heads/management, and relevant stakeholders.
- Collaborate with numerous departments across the business to assist in the proper use of data that ensure delivery of desired operational results.
- Model and drive a data driven culture that values data as an asset with business value.
- Lead relevant change and communications functions to drive functional maturity.
- Manage people by executing management responsibilities and create an environment that encourages employee growth and performance excellence.
- Prevent wastage and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs.
- Take all necessary actions to ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability.
- Ensure implementation of relevant policies, governance and practice standards across the business.
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and business's internal compliance procedures and requirements.
- Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by business.
- Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialization and identify risks.
- Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buy-in.
- Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support.
You Will Be an Ideal Candidate If You Have
- Mathematical/Analytical/Actuarial Science B.Sc. degree or B. Com degree with:
- 5 – 8 years' experience in an analytical and/or modelling position
- 3 years in a management role leading a team (Non-Negotiable)
- Data science and big data knowledge preferable
- Pricing experience, added advantage
- Good communication skills
- Quantitative and analytical skills
- Financial modelling skills
- SAS, Python, SQL, Teradata, PowerBI programming preferable
- Good interpretation skills
You will have access to
- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- A challenging working environment
- Opportunities to innovate
We can be a match if you are / have
- Analytical
- Adaptable and curious
- Thrive in a collaborative environment
- Conceptual and Big Picture Thinking
- Strategic Thinking
Apply now if you are interested in taking the next step. We look forward to engaging with you
All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group's Employment Equity plan. The bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfil this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.
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25/09/25
All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group's Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.