28 Engineering Associate jobs in South Africa

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced
Senior Technical Specialist
to join our team in the chemical industry, with a strong focus on laundry care systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for
installing chemical dispensers
,
calibrating and servicing laundry dosing pumps
, and
conducting technical training
for clients and internal teams. This role demands
extensive technical knowledge and hands-on experience
in commercial or industrial laundry operations, as well as a strong understanding of chemical dosing systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Installation & Commissioning

• Install and configure laundry chemical dispensing systems and related equipment at client sites.

• Ensure systems are installed according to safety standards, manufacturer specifications, and customer requirements.

• Perform start-up, functional testing, and commissioning of laundry dosing pumps and dispensing units.

• Calibration & Maintenance

• Conduct routine and emergency calibration of chemical dosing pumps to ensure accurate chemical delivery.

• Perform diagnostics, troubleshooting, and repairs of system components including tubing, valves, controllers, and sensors.

• Maintain service records, logs, and calibration documentation.

• Training & Support

• Provide technical training to customer personnel on proper operation, maintenance, and safety procedures for installed systems.

• Deliver internal training sessions to field technicians and sales teams to improve understanding of system capabilities and functionality.

• Serve as a technical advisor during customer site visits, audits, and problem resolution.

• Customer Service & Technical Consulting

• Build strong relationships with laundry facility managers and support their operational needs.

• Conduct periodic site assessments to ensure optimal performance and chemical efficiency.
• Recommend system upgrades or chemical usage adjustments to optimize cleaning results and cost-effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience (3+ years) in laundry operations, preferably in a commercial or industrial setting.
• Strong background in chemical dispensing technologies, especially related to laundry dosing pumps and automated systems.
• Technical diploma or degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Technology, or related field.
• Experience in electrical wiring, plumbing connections, and basic control systems.
• Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.
• Ability to read technical diagrams and interpret installation manuals.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to train and support customers effectively.
• Willingness to travel locally and regionally to customer sites.
• Valid driver's license.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working with major chemical or dispenser manufacturers
• Certifications in chemical handling or dosing equipment maintenance.
• Knowledge of hygiene standards, water quality, and fabric care in laundry environments.

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

We are a company who inspiring the extraordinary, for more than 70 years, we have led the way with purpose-driven healthcare technology. That history compels us to relentlessly pursue therapies that change lives.

The role is opened to continue our daily milestone in serving our patients & partners and give them the highest level of support & partnership which is aligned with our daily mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

For this role, you need to be located in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Performs a variety of duties in the electronic, mechanical, electromechanical, and/or optical areas
• Constructs, troubleshoots, calibrates, adjusts, tests, diagnoses, and maintains equipment, components, devices, or systems
• Works from schematics, engineering drawings and written or verbal instructions
• Operates related equipment; conducts tests and reports data in prescribed format
• Performs calibration and alignment checks; makes adjustments, modifications, and replacements as directed; prepares prescribed compounds and solutions

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree Electronic is required – minimum of 1-2 years of relevant experience or advanced degree. Good knowledge of troubleshooting methods/skills and capital equipment control
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that are balanced with speed and effectiveness
• Effective verbal and written English communication skills
• Available to work 40 hours per week

It would be an advantage if the candidate brings in-depth experience in the medical devices industry, along with strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. Experience working with SAP or similar ERP systems is also highly desirable.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

About Nintex:

At Nintex, we are transforming the way people work, everywhere.

As the global standard for process intelligence and automation, we're trusted by over 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries. Our customers, from industry giants like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft, rely on the Nintex Platform to accelerate their digital transformation journeys by managing, automating, and optimizing business processes quickly and efficiently. We improve their lives through the technology we build.

We are committed to fostering a workplace that supports amazing people in doing their very best work every day. Collaboration is constant, our workplace is fun, the environment is fast-paced, and we value our people's curiosity, ideas, and enthusiasm. Driven by passion and accountability, we take initiative, measure progress, and deliver results. Our culture fosters innovation and problem-solving, fueled by curiosity and a commitment to thinking big. Together, we move with agility, prioritize customer needs, and build unity through empathy, leaving a positive impact wherever we go.

Working in engineering:

Working at Nintex as an engineer means building more than just software; it's about making a tangible impact with every line of code. Our engineers are process experts, developing the industry's most complete process and automation platform to transform the way people work. If you're interested, curious and want to learn and do more, the sky is the limit here. We take a solutions-oriented and collaborative approach, constantly innovating our business and products.

About the role:

Associate Engineers know the ins and outs of development. As an individual contributor, you are building a solid foundation at Nintex. You are focused on tasks assigned to you within your teams. You reliably deliver your work, typically with the support of other engineers.

You will be immersed in the booming software automation industry. Specifically, RPA (Robotic Process Automation). You will be part of the Nintex RPA team where you would be a major contributor for developing the Nintex RPA product. This role will be responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and creating Nintex RPA Central and RPA Bot product features.

This is a hybrid position in JHB.

Your contribution will be:

• You write clear and correct code that can be easily understood and always adheres to Nintex coding guidelines and standards.
• You participate in the design and development of products and features.
• You attend and contribute to team ceremonies and meetings (daily scrum meetings, planning meetings, demos, and development retrospective meetings.)
• You provide clear and actionable technical feedback to the team for pull requests and peer reviews.
• You communicate progress to the team and delivery manager regularly and seek guidance when required.
• You proactively improve the test coverage and documentation of existing code (e.g., unit tests, automation tests, etc.)
• You perform proactive testing of your work.
• You take responsibility for quality by owning and fixing defects.
• You regularly contribute new ideas and maintain focus on continual improvement.
• You observe and learn about the incident management process and participate under the guidance of senior staff.

To be successful, we think you need:

• BSc in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or similar degree.
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Fluency with C#, JavaScript and Typescript
• Experience with desktop development/knowledge of VB.Net would be advantageous
• Excellent research skills for new or unknown challenges. Much of RPA development involves researching unknown challenges.

What's in it for you?

Nintex has a hybrid working model, enabling us to build culture, learn, and grow together. We intentionally connect and collaborate, while emphasizing flexibility with a blend of at-home and in-office work. This role is a hybrid role in our local Nintex office.

While our offerings differ from country to country, we offer our entire global workforce an array of exciting perks and benefits, including

• Global Gratitude and Recharge Days
• Flexible, paid time off policy
• Employee wellness programs and counseling resources
• Meaningful peer recognition and awards
• Paid parental leave
• Invention/patenting assistance
• Community impact, paid volunteer time, and opportunities
• Intercultural learning and celebration
• Multiple tools through which to learn and grow, and an incredible global community

View more about our benefits here:

Equity Statement : Preference will be given to People Living with Disability who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Company.

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.

Your day at NTT DATA
NTT DATA's Cloud Services Division helps enterprises modernize, migrate, and manage workloads across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and hybrid platforms.

As a Proposal Writer you will transform complex solution inputs into clear, compelling, and compliant proposals that win new business and deepen client trust. You will partner with solution architects, pursuit leads, practice SMEs, delivery, legal, security, and pricing teams to produce high‑quality RFx responses (RFI/RFP/RFQ), statements of work (SOW) narratives, and related client‑facing materials.

While based in South Africa, this is a
Global Role
working within the
NTT Global
Cloud
Practice
, supporting large global Cloud Advisory, Modernization and Managed Services client bids and engagements in
North America and Europe
, as well as local bids in
Middle East & Africa
.

Key responsibilities and attributes:

• Analyse RFx packages (RFP/RFI/RFQ, addenda, Ts&Cs) to identify requirements, evaluation criteria, risks, and submission logistics; build content plans.
• Storyboard and craft persuasive narratives tailored to buyer personas (business, technical, procurement) that articulate value, differentiation, win themes, and proof points for cloud migration, modernization, managed services, FinOps, SRE/DevOps, and security‑compliant operations.
• Draft, edit, and integrate all proposal sections (executive summary, technical/solution, service model, methodologies, SLAs/OLAs, governance, transition/KT, staffing, past performance/case studies, risk/mitigation, assumptions/dependencies, commercial narrative) to align with RFx instructions and evaluation criteria.
• Collaborate with SMEs and partners to gather technical content and evidence (architecture overviews, delivery methodology, certifications, security & compliance attestations such as ISO 27001/SOC 2), ensuring accuracy and regulatory/commercial compliance.
• Maintain and curate a reusable content library (templates, boilerplates, service catalog entries, graphics/call‑outs, resumes/bios, past performance) and continuously improve content based on win/loss insights.
• Ensure editorial excellence: enforce house style, clarity, consistency, and brand; perform line/copy‑editing and quality checks including accessibility and plain‑language readability.
• Support post‑submission activities: Q&A, oral presentations, BAFO clarifications, and grants/reporting‑style narratives when required.
• Partner with bid/proposal managers and commercial architects to align the written story with solution scope, assumptions, and commercial positioning.
• Uphold data privacy and confidentiality across all client and partner artifacts.
• Audience‑centric storytelling: Writes with empathy for executive, technical, and procurement readers; grounds claims in evidence and benefits.
• Compliance discipline: Maps requirements to responses; closes all compliance gaps; follows submission instructions precisely.
• Content curation & reuse: Organises reusable content, maintains freshness, and tailors intelligently—never copy‑paste.
• Critical thinking: Distils complex inputs, identifies risks/assumptions, and proposes mitigation.
• Quality ownership: Treats the document like a product; drives reviews and implements feedback with urgency and care.
• Resilience & adaptability: Thrives under deadline pressure and shifting scopes.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Communications, English, Technical Writing, Business/Marketing, Engineering/IT) or equivalent practical experience.

Required experience:

• 3+ years' experience developing funded or shortlisted proposals for cloud services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), managed services/AMS, and/or application modernisation programs
• Familiarity with global procurement frameworks (e.g., public‑sector RFx processes, FAR/DFARS for U.S., EU procurement directives) and enterprise sourcing practices.
• Experience collaborating with partners/hyperscalers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud) and technology alliances in joint proposals.
• Experience building graphics and data visuals (e.g., solution diagrams, process flows) with PowerPoint/Visio or equivalent.
• Demonstrated success writing winning enterprise or public‑sector proposals in technology services—ideally cloud, managed services, or large‑scale IT transformation.
• Exceptional writing, research, and editing skills with meticulous attention to detail and a track record of simplifying complex technical concepts for mixed audiences.
• Strong project management capabilities with the ability to prioritise multiple, concurrent deadlines in a fast‑moving, global environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), collaboration platforms (SharePoint/Teams/Confluence), and proposal management tools (e.g., RFPIO, Loopio, Qvidian) or willingness to learn quickly.
• Collaborative communicator able to influence without authority and drive inputs from busy stakeholders across time zones.

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.

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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.

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About The Company
SLR is in the process of growing our footprint around the globe, and as such we are continuously looking for talented people to join our team and who would add value to Our Business.

We are recognised as one of the global leaders in environmental and advisory solutions, helping our clients to achieve their sustainability goals. SLR has over 100 offices in 13 different countries across the world and we actively encourage collaboration and learning between the many disciplines and services we offer globally.

At SLR you can expect a flexible and supportive 'One Team' culture that sits at the heart of our business and ensures that we offer a rewarding place to work. You will have the opportunity to work alongside industry leaders and specialists on interesting projects and being part of a team that makes a difference.

Job Purpose
To supplement the skillset and offering of the existing SLR Africa Mine Waste and Geotechnical Engineering teams.

Minimum Requirements

• A civil engineer with at least 5- 10 years of experience with tailings and water dam design and associated lining systems.
• At least years of experience with general engineering design project management, construction contract administration and construction site supervision.
• More than 5 years project management experience
• Proficient in Word, Excel and Geo-Slope/Slide
• Valid driver's license.
• Must be willing to travel.

Responsibilities

• Design of tailings and associated water dams, and related infrastructure including costing and reporting.
• Project engineering management.
• Management of clients, internal and external teams.
• Tender and contract documentation and administration.
• Construction monitoring and management.
• Site visits and audits.
• General assistance with broader civil engineering activities (hydrology, water balances, structural)

Skills/ Attributes

• Sound writing and communication skills.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritise work.
• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Strong mentoring skills.
• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Project management skills.

SLR's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. We actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. SLR is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial, quality, resourcing, scheduling and technical risk during project lifecycle;
• Experience in professional services tendering and agreements;
• Experience and understanding of statutory approval processes;
• Lead and manage a design team, including mentoring of junior staff members;
• Experience in construction contract documentation compilation (SAICE GCC) and procurement processes;
• Experience in contract administration;
• Work well in a team environment;
• Strong communication and people relation management skills;
• Work well in a dynamic team environment and able to function independently with limited guidance;
• Sense of urgency and ability to respond efficiently and effectively in the execution of project tasks;
• Suitable candidate must have a valid driver's license and own vehicle; candidate must be willing to travel to remote sites.

Qualifications

• Candidate must have a B Eng/BSc Eng in Civil Engineering.
• Candidate must be registered as a Pr Eng.
• Candidate should have a minimum of 10 years' experience in the planning, procurement and administration of municipal services;
• Prior experience in the planning of infrastructure utilizing computer aided designs packages such as Civil3D, WaterMate and PipeMate or similar design packages will be an advantage.

Pay range and compensation package

Negotiable and based on the candidates' qualifications and years of relevant experience.

nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.

At nCino, we're committed to transforming compliance with innovative software that helps Accountable Institutions operate with confidence, efficiency, and transparency. We aim to empower our customers to engage better with their clients while ensuring compliance. Our Support Engineering team is a talented group dedicated to supporting the seamless adoption and success of the nCino KYC Africa system. We value making someone's day, respecting each other, having a winning attitude, bringing our best, doing the right thing, and having fun. These principles are fundamental to fostering a productive, enjoyable work

environment.

As a Support Engineer at nCino, you'll play a key role in providing exceptional service to customers using the nCino KYC Africa system. You'll triage customer-reported system issues, respond to questions, and handle configuration enhancements.

As an Associate Support Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to ensure customers receive top-tier support while troubleshooting product or system related issues, answering inquiries and perfoming support admin duties. You will deepen your expertise in the nCino KYC Africa system, helping customers resolve challenges and guiding them through the system. You'll also work to enhance their overall experience by proactively identifying areas for improvement.

Responsibilities

• Maintain regular, clear communication with customers across multiple channels
• (email, chat, phone, Zoom etc.).
• ecome an expert in the nCino KYC Africa system, demonstrating advanced knowledge to address customer needs effectively.
• Perform ongoing configuration on the nCino KYC Africa system to adjust the application for customer needs
• ucate customers on new product features and functionalities, enhancing their experience with the system.
• solve product-related issues and concerns swiftly and efficiently.
• oactively identify and address process gaps to improve customer satisfaction.
• proach all tasks with dedication and a positive, energetic attitude.
• llaborate across departments to solve customer issues when necessary

Qualifications
Required:

• chelor's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience. A combination of education, experience, and superior performance is acceptable.
• years of experience in customer service, account management, or a similar role.
• rong commitment to customer service and satisfaction, with a focus on delivering quality technical support.
• ceptional problem-solving, decision-making, and interpersonal skills.
• cellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• sic Excel proficiency.
• gh energy and a positive attitude, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and think creatively.
• rong attention to detail, time management skills, and a driven, humbly confident
• attitude.

Desired

• evious experience with Zendesk or similar customer service systems.

If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.
nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at

Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success. We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

Our Company:
At we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you

, the world's leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company's powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how 's technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L'Oreal and Fanatics, visit

Your Role at
The DevOps Engineer is responsible for working hands-on to provision applications on multiple cloud platforms, designing and implementing DevOps principles that use those platforms, becoming a subject matter expert in troubleshooting and resolving complex, multi-tier architecture problems, planning and executing technical tasks associated with the implementation and maintenance of virtualisation and containerised cloud infrastructure, as well as contributing to roadmap planning, coordinating and execution to drive the achievement of business objectives and KPIs.

What You'll Do:
This role requires you to be a CI/CD subject matter expert that's more on the Dev side of DevOps. You'll do the following:

• Become familiar with technologies used by the squad - GCP, AWS, Terraform, Terrakube, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Gradle, Docker, GKE, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, SonarQube, Sonatype Nexus & Lifecycle, Prometheus, Grafana, MySQL
• Maintain & continuously improve CI/CD pipelines & staging provisioning pipelines that drive feature development
• Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives
• Automate recurring manual tasks & iteratively optimize those tasks
• Perform code reviews
• Research and prototype new technologies
• Write and maintain documentation

• Support software development squads in multiple timezones to:

• Onboard new micro services

• Grant required permissions
• Respond to alerts & ad hoc CI/CD related issues, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner to unblock feature development hindrances to meet sprint timelines
• Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables

What You Have:

• Excellent communication skills & high proficiency in English
• At least 4 years of experience in the tech industry
• A solid understanding of the Linux operating system
• Experience with IaC (infrastructure of code) tools to drive automation and self service, preferably Hashicorp Terraform
• Experience with coding and scripting languages like Groovy, Java, Nodejs, Python and Shell.
• The ability to identify, evaluate, and integrate diverse open-source technologies and cloud services.
• Experience with public cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google
• Experience with business tools like Atlassian Jira & Confluence
• Experience with Kubernetes, whether that's GKE, AKS, EKS, OpenShift, etc
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc
• Experience with Git version control, preferable GitHub
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues across staging and production environments

Benefits:

• Unlimited PTO policy
• Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
• Training & Development
• Learning the advanced partnership automation products
• Medical Aid and Provident Fund
• Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
• Group scheme with 10X provident fund
• Stock Options
• 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
• Primary caregiver leave
• Internet Allowance
• Flexible work hours
• Casual work environment
• Technology stipend
• Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

Who are we?

Sanlam Life and Savings (SLS) is focused on serving our retail and corporate clients in South Africa and further developing our strategic advantages in the South African market. Sanlam Life and Savings consists of the following business units Retail Mass, Corporate, Risk and Savings, Glacier and various business enabling functions. The Sanlam Life and Savings Office provides strategic direction, coordination and support to the four clusters, as well as performing governance oversight that includes assurance provided by second line of defense functions in SLS, to enable us to meet our business objectives.

What will you do?

Main Responsibilities:

The performance of the Associate Data Engineer can be described and measured by:

• Define a structured approach to problem solving and delivery against it.
• Create role specific design standards, patterns, and principles
• Assist the planning and management of the workload of the team and to ensure delivery
• Load large, complex data sets to and make data available for other data engineers
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing models for greater scalability
• Working with other data engineers and data modelers, you will design, implement, and manage data vaults, data transformations and the data pipeline
• Identify, design, and implement vault access layers to enable BI products to leverage the data within data vaults
• Monitor and fine-tune data vaults and data transformations on the Cloudera Hadoop stack
• Use modern development and modelling techniques and tools to implement BI and data management solutions, including data quality, metadata and reference data
• Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, data analysts, business analysts, other data engineers and solutions architects

Support data stewards to establish and enforce guidelines for data collection, quality improvements, integration, and processes

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred

Work Experience:

• The Junior Data Engineer must have relevant experience in a similar environment working with the relevant tools and techniques

Technical Knowledge and Experience:

The Associate Data Engineer is someone with a strong understanding of data, data structures and data sources. Required skills include:

• Application and data engineering background with a solid background in SQL is required
• Knowledge of database management system (DBMS) physical implementation, including tables, joins and SQL querying.
• Data architecture design and delivery experience preferred
• Experience in Database technologies (e.g., SAP Hana, Teradata or similar) or Hadoop components including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie and Impala preferred and highly advantageous.
• Object-oriented/object functional scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Scala or related)
• Knowledge and experience of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships, and metadata.
• Strong Data Engineering background with a specific focus on staging high quality data
• Understanding of data warehousing principles (e.g., Kimball and Vault).
• Experience in agile development
• Ability to comply to and manage data assets under a strict governance framework

Desirable/ preferred skills include:

• Data warehousing (Kimball and Data Vault patterns are preferred) and dimensional data modelling (e.g., OLAP and MDX experience)
• Experience in developing data pipelines using ETL tools (e.g., SAP Data Services), automation (e.g. Wherescape), scheduling and test automation (e.g. Robot) is desirable
• A solid background in SQL, Information Architecture and ETL procedures is required
• Experience with object-oriented/functional/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Unix Shell scripting, Java, Scala etc.) is preferred but not essential.
• Data Management technologies (e.g., Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), Axon, EBX)
• Event/Streaming based data pipelines (e.g., Kafka or Nifi) nice to have

Personal Attributes

Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently

Decision quality - Contributing independently

Plans and aligns - Contributing independently

Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

Build a successful career with us

We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Being resilient - Contributing independently

Collaborates - Contributing independently

Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently

Customer focus - Contributing independently

Drives results - Contributing independently

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Closing date: 13 October 2025

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.