Data Engineering Lead

GBS

📍 KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, South Africa On-Site ⏳ 5h ago
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Job Description

Lead Innovation. Build Scalable Data Platforms. Power the Future of AI.

Are you an experienced Data Engineering Leader ready to drive enterprise-wide data transformation?

We're looking for a strategic, hands-on Data Engineering Lead to take ownership of our enterprise data platform across Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric.

Reporting to the Head of Data & AI Strategy, you'll lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, modernise our data ecosystem and build scalable, secure and AI-ready data solutions.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DRIVING
  • Define and execute the enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap.
  • Lead cloud architecture, implementation and migration to Azure and Microsoft Fabric.
  • Manage and mentor Data Engineers, a Data Architect and Platform/Data Ops Engineers.
  • Oversee end-to-end data engineering delivery, production operations, SLAs and disaster recovery.
  • Drive Data Ops, CI/CD, automation,