Principal Data Engineer & Cloud Data Architect (Remote)

Placements24

📍 North West, South Africa, South Africa Remote ⏳ 4h ago
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Job Description

Placements24 is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure in a fully remote role. You will lead data pipelines, architect data lakes and warehouses on cloud platforms, and mentor engineers while collaborating with data scientists and software teams to deliver reliable, secure analytics solutions.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in data engineering, strong SQL/NoSQL expertise, and hands-on experience with Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and modern cloud