Architect leading initiatives in data platform engineering at F5, solving challenges in unstructured data and enhancing governance frameworks.
About the role
- Lead Data Engineer responsible for data platform strategy and architectural direction in Cape Town office. Collaborating with teams to enhance data engineering practices and mentor staff.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and mentorship across data engineering, backend engineering, and analytics teams, acting as the senior technical lead in the Cape Town office.
- Contribute to and drive engineering standards, backend architecture, event-driven design, data contracts and data platform best practices.
- Own and evolve the strategic roadmap for the data platform, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
- Design for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across the data ecosystem.
- Design, build, and review robust data pipelines to ingest, normalise, and model data from multiple sources into a central analytical store.
- Implement and uphold data quality checks, documentation, and governance standards.
- Design and build APIs and data delivery solutions to enable access to reports and insights, in close partnership with Data Analysts.
- Drive improvements in data access patterns, query efficiency, and database usage in collaboration with Engineering teams.
- Build APIs and data delivery solutions for ingesting data into databases, including ownership of data feeds and data fixes, partnering with Client Services and Engineering.
- Model the impact of potential roadmap initiatives to support prioritisation and decision making.
- Design, build, and operate scalable data infrastructure in AWS or an equivalent cloud environment.
- Apply modern software engineering and DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and automation.
- Direct line management of Data Engineers (currently 2, with expected growth over time).
- Indirect mentorship and technical leadership of backend engineers and data analysts across teams.
- Active involvement in defining career progression frameworks, technical expectations, and performance development for engineering roles.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience in data engineering, including data modelling, pipeline design, API design and data platform architecture.
- Proven experience operating as a senior technical leader (Lead, Staff, or Principal level), influencing architecture and standards across multiple teams.
- Hands on experience with cloud based data infrastructure, ideally AWS.
- Solid understanding of data governance, data quality, and documentation best practices.
- Practical experience with modern data technologies such as Spark, Snowflake, dbt, and orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow).
- Experience working cross functionally with Analytics, Engineering, and customer facing teams.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and analysts, shape career development, and raise engineering maturity.
- Familiarity with DevOps and software engineering best practices applied to data platforms.
- Strong product mindset, with experience collaborating closely with Product Managers and Analytics teams in early-stage discovery and decision-making.
Benefits
- A competitive salary depending on experience.
- Hybrid working. You can combine working from home and working from the office.
- Paid time away from work. Our employees enjoy a competitive paid time off package, including a paid day each year to volunteer time for a good cause that is important to them.
- Paid Sabbaticals. One (1) month paid Sabbatical after every 5 years of Service, without tapping into annual leave.
- Extra Rewards. Lucrative Ten Loyalty Rewards program which includes a bonus and gift to say thank you for being part of Ten.
- Remote Working Holidays - possibilities to Travel and Work anywhere in the world!
- Employee Discounts. Access to lots of great travel and entertainment discounts as our clients’ members would!
- Be part of our global, dynamic, and inclusive Team, with diversity at its core.
- Genuine career opportunities within a dynamic and international company.
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